What websites do you guys use

I don't use recipes... I just make my food to fit my macros. I pre plan my food, and add foods that go together to make a meal - I adjust amounts of certain ingredients to fit.

Livinglean and I might have similar approaches to cooking dinner... here’s a couple real examples for you:

For dinner last night, I chopped up 4oz raw chicken and threw it in the pan with diced peppers and onions. After a few minutes, I added 10oz of riced cauliflower. Seasoned with cumin and oregano. Added 6oz white corn and black bean salsa to the pan. Dumped it all into a dish and sprinkled with 1.5oz reduced fat Mexican cheese. Popped in the preheated oven for 5 min to melt the cheese. Done - homemade veggie “enchilada bake” for about 450 cal. If I didn’t have the calories, I could have omitted the 120 cal of cheese - but I had the cal and needed the healthy fat, so on it went! This all just came into my head as an idea to try out about 3 days ago since I was broke until payday and had to “shop from my kitchen” for dinner - I like all the ingredients separately, so put them all together!

Tonight will be stir fry again - 4oz smoked pork chop with riced cauliflower (farmers market had a good deal on cauliflower!), black beans, corn, and paella seasoning. If I need the healthy fat and have the calories to spare, I’ll add a couple pan-fried eggs over easy (runny yolk) on top.

Sometimes I do the same with casseroles if I know I am going to have a busy workweek. Just throw together flavors that I like with a lot of veggies and a lb of ground beef or diced chicken - pop in the oven for a bit then into the fridge for 4 nights of dinner ready to go.

The only time I ever really go on recipe websites is when I have a craving for something specific.... and even then, I usually am just looking for some basic ingredients to combine, not necessarily a step by step guide.

Good luck!

My favorite is skinnytaste.com

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I use nomnompaleo.com and goop.com (I know, she's anathema on here, but she sure can cook) for recipes a lot. My most used cookbook is Trim Healthy Mama. That's just full of easy, everyday, gotta get dinner on the table now-type recipes.

I also make a lot of my mom's recipes that I age growing up or I just throw things together and experiment. If I've had a good meal at a restaurant, I might try to recreate it or if I have a bunch of food I need to use up, I might create something that combines everything together.

I will check out the trim healthy mama cookbook.

I like hungry girl, emily bites, simple-nourished-living, skinny taste, slender kitchen!

If you want to up your cooking skills and techniques, Serious Eats is a good one to check out. You can learn about all sorts of cooking styles as well. For example I’m currently very much into sous vide for keeping all the lean meats I eat nice and tender and they have all sorts of guides and recipes.

I have the actual cookbooks, but these guys have their own websites (Google the names below!):

Budget Bytes
Oh She Glows
The Little Green Spoon
The Happy Pear
Madeleine Shaw

Also, don't forget to tweak certain recipes after the first trial run to tailor the taste to your personality.

Cheers!

I try many recipes that my Facebook friends post. Of course, not all of them are low calorie or healthy. I do adapt some to fit my calorie limit though. I have a god collection of recipes that I have been using for decades, also. Many of those recipes are from Weight Watchers.