Need dinner & snack ideas

Jenna__XoXo
Jenna__XoXo Posts: 117 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I cook dinner everynight but I've gotten tired of all the things I usually cook. I need some new ideas for dinners and snacks to make.

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  • cnjg6677
    cnjg6677 Posts: 177 Member
    Try skinnytaste online I love all of the recipes on there
  • busyPK
    busyPK Posts: 3,788 Member
    This is hard to answer without you providing what you currently are getting tired of. :D But I'll throw out some ideas:

    Breakfast for dinner
    Pot roast in crockpot with seasoning, carrots, potatoes, onion, anything you like
    Build your own pizzas (big hit if you have kids)
    Baked ziti/spaghetti
    Taco bar
    Breakfast casserole - huge hit in my house as I can cut up most veggies and hide them in there and my kids never notice. Favorite recipe involves eggs, milk, tater tots, spinach, green and red peppers and any cheese I have on hand. My kids enjoy this with hot sauce or salsa.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    What's your overall diet consist of?
  • Safari_Gal_
    Safari_Gal_ Posts: 1,461 Member
    Hmm don’t know your dietary needs- but here are some staples in my house if you are just looking for ideas based off what other typically eat:

    Roast duck
    Ratatouille- easier to make than most people think!
    Shashuka
    Roasted vegetables of all kinds
    Chili
    Lamb chops
    Seafood stew/ bouillabaisse
    Kale and sausage soup

    Snacks-
    Chia pudding
    Flax snax
    Nori strips
    Pumpkin seeds


  • lapesadilla
    lapesadilla Posts: 67 Member
    I'm a lazy cook but these are some favorites for me:

    Lettuce cups - cook some ground turkey with 5 spice and soy sauce, add a little hoisin/sesame oil/sambal/sriracha or whatever, place into individual whole leaves of butter lettuce or romaine. Add veggies or shelled edamame if you like.

    Sprinkle a side of salmon with kosher salt, a little tarragon and a lot of dill and slow roast at 250 for about 45 minutes or until it flakes with a fork. Serve with sauteed zucchini and a whole baked sweet potato.

    Brown whole chicken breasts in a skillet, then add about 1/2 cup broth or water, the juice of 1-2 lemons, and chili powder. Cover and simmer over low heat for about 15 minutes or until chicken reaches 160 degrees at the thickest part and the liquid is mostly reduced. Add a bit more chili powder to taste and spoon the resulting spicy lemon sauce over the chicken to serve. Good with corn cut off the cob and oven-roasted green beans.

    Rub an eye of round roast with salt, cracked pepper, horseradish and olive oil, sear on all sides in a skillet (or don't) and slow roast at 225 for about 70 minutes to 2 hours or until it's as done as you like (I like it rare so I check it often starting at about 1 hour). Serve with some little potatoes with salt and pepper and olive oil and a little salad.

    Chicken adobo, made is a great simple meal-to-feed-an-army that's pretty low calorie and high protein and but my husband makes it so I can't instruct you there.


  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I subscribe to emails from allrecipes.com and America's Test Kitchen and get more recipe ideas than I can possibly use. (The recipes from ATK are available for a limited time and then they go behind a paywall.)

    I also have a subscription to the New York Times that gives me access to their cooking section. My favorites there are Nigella Larson, Mark Bittman, and Melissa Clark. I don't subscribe to the cooking section emails because I already have more recipe ideas than I can use.

    Lots of times when something looks good, I see if I can find it in my trusty "Joy of Cooking", and use that one instead, as I prefer the way the recipes are organized there.

    Another great source of recipes are the cookbooks in your library system - mine has over 7,000 available. I like to borrow cookbooks before I buy them.
  • Butt_Snorkeler
    Butt_Snorkeler Posts: 167 Member
    edited August 2019
    If I'm lazy to cook, I'll just throw together some ingredients for a huge calorie bomb smoothie. Tons of smoothie recipes out there and its very easy to adjust measurements to fit calorie goals.
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