Tonight we are have lean ground beef patties, roasted potatoes, fresh broccoli and salad!...snack will be an apple and popcorn!

Girlfriend and I had spaghetti with marinara sauce, heavy on the garlic, and homemade meatballs. Boyfriend had the meatballs and red sauce on pan-seared zucchini. He can't have pasta, since he had weight loss surgery some years back, but he said the pan-seared zucchini chunks are good enough that he doesn't miss it.

I've created a rajma (red bean curry) / bund gobi (cabbage with green peas) mashup that pretty well makes a complete meal in one pan. And it freezes really well.

Basically saute onion/cumin, fennel & mustard seeds with a little smoked paprika, red chili, salt and pepper. Add pretty well a head of cabbage sliced thinly and some cherry tomatoes. When the cabbage is soft - I mix in green peas and red kidney beans. Sounds odd? But really tasty!

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I like simple and fresh!...easy!....fresh cauliflower,air fryer chicken legs, and sweet potato fries with spray butter and cinnamon on them!....snack tonight is veggie chips, an apple and string cheese!

Me too! But I also like cooking the other stuff that can go in the freezer and be pulled out quick when the day gets busy....or there is no time/energy to walk to the grocery store. Those recycled yogurt containers in full of leftovers have saved me from eating "quick (dangerous)" food so often! I've also become rather addicted to baked sweet potatoes - just cut them in wedges and don't even spray or coat them. They are like candy!!!!!!

My boyfriend cooks most meals but I turned him onto a good 10 minute dinner. Boil rice (or buy the microwave cups and dinner is now 2 minutes). In the Indian section of the grocery store there are microwave packets of all kinds of Indian food. My favorite is the Chana masala. Nuke it for a minute, serve on the rice. I buy small naan (4 to a packet) and eat 1 with it, warming it in the toaster while the microwave does its thing. Best part, you can understand every ingredient on thr packet. Nothing funky or weird!

Tonight was supposed to be pork satay but I didn't get it thawed in time. I'll do it tomorrow instead. Today instead was more or less refrigerator cleanout. Reuben for him and patty melt for me, dinner was a hamburger for him and a roast beef sandwich for me. I'm just more or less watching calories and trying to maintain at best for a while, though I'm set to lose a pound a week. Once life settles down some I'll undoubtably notice some loss, but not at the moment.

I had my tostados tonight....very spicy and very good!...got side tracked last night and had an Italian sausage!...what are some of your favorite chicken recipes?

The pork satay was very good. I made extra and left it raw in the marinade and froze that for later.

Tomorrow is going to be chicken and jalapeno quesadillas for lunch, and some leftover prime rib, with mashed cauliflower and brussel sprouts in bacon drippings for them, and some wild rice pilaf for me. It I really get it together I'll make rolls. But I have plans to make egg rolls and beef samosas for the freezer, and that may use up my standing budget.

(Both egg rolls and samosas are made to give Boyfriend an extra pop of protein if we eat a meal with shrimp, because while he loves tandoori shrimp, he needs a little extra something or he gets hungry too soon. A beef samosa is the answer. Similarly, my pork egg rolls are 90% pork and 10% vegetable for flavor, for the same reason.)

I'm having black bean, barley and sweet potato soup for ??? lunch. Then eggs and asparagus for dinner. I love soup
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Just a basic dinner of pan seared salmon with sweet potatoes fries for my husband and brown rice for myself, and some green beans.

My snack is pretty much the same every night since it seems to be the only thing I can eat with my Zoloft that doesn't give me heartburn. Rice cake with peanut butter spread on top