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If you like fish take some tilapia and rub it with taco seasoning and grill it. Serve it with tortillas and a coleslaw with a vinegar dressing. Grilled pineapple makes a great side.

Try the Skinny Cheesy Chicken, Broccoli, and Rice Casserole from Iowa Girl Eats. It is super filling and my husband did not even notice when I switched from my old recipe to this one.

Rub it with cocoa powder (unsweetened) and grill it. Serve it with some lightly grilled veggies and a roll. Or cut it up into cubes and make kabobs with lots of veggies and serve it with a little brown rice. I like to use pineapple, red pepper, and onion with a glaze made out some of the pineapple juice and some hoisin…

I have some similar issues when I host a family dinner. My go to meal is a roasted pork loin, grilled veggie kabobs, and French bread for those who aren't doing Atkins. Desert is usually baked apples with cinnamon and then drizzled with a little honey and some yogurt.

Rub it with a Mexican seasoning mix and broil. Then break it up into chunks and wrap it up in a tortilla with some cabbage with a squeeze of lime.

Chicken Slaw- Shredded chicken, peanuts, sesame seeds, bag of shredded cabbage, 1 T. olive oil, 1/2 cup white vinegar, black pepper to taste, 1 T. sugar, 1 block ramen noodles. Heat olive oil in a pan and toast all nuts/seeds and crumbled up ramen over medium heat. Mix vinegar, sugar, and pepper. Mix all ingredients…

Lightly steamed carrots, onions, and red peppers with a touch of olive oil and ground pepper.

Use the myrecipes.com website and search for recipes from Cooking Light.

I used to travel quite a bit for work and found that I could do ok at meals, but the snacking was what got me. I started making sure I was always carrying something like a bag of nuts (high protein and shelf stable) that I could have to snack on rather than eating the donuts and other junk people would bring in. To help me…

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I make soup every weekend and pre portion it. Some I freeze for future weeks and some I plan on eating that same week. One of the soups I make most often is a chicken stock based potato soup. Potato and Cocktail Sausage Soup 1 Large potato (cubed 1/2 inch) 2 Large carrots chopped 3 Stalks celery chopped 1/2 onion chopped…

I do this too, but instead of mixed greens I will buy a bag of broccoli salad mix. I find that the crunchiness of the broccoli helps to satisfy me in a way that salad greens do not.

I like to make a spicy orange sauce (similar to what you get on takeaway Chinese food). It is a few tablespoons of hoisin sauce, 1/2 cup orange juice, and red pepper flakes. Then you let it thicken over low heat until it is as thick or thin as you want it. I love it over stir fried chicken, bell peppers, onions and carrots.

Try the Cooking Light website. They have a lot of really good recipes and list out all of the related nutritional info.

I usually use ground turkey in my meatballs instead of beef, but the recipe works either way. I use 1 pound of ground meat, 1 egg, 1 cup finely crushed croutons (any flavor). Then I bake the meatballs and add them to whatever I am making. A current favorite is to make an orange sauce like you would get on Chinese food and…

I add cranberries (fresh or frozen) when I make baked apples. I just slice the apple up into a 9x9 pan and add the cranberries and some cinnamon and nutmeg and just a small amount of sugar. I then cover the top of the pan with foil and bake at 375 until the apples and cranberries are tender. It makes a great side dish or…

I make a pot of soup every Sunday and portion it out into individual containers. Half get frozen and the other half eat during the week. The rest of the days I will pull a container of soup out of the freezer the night before and have it for lunch the next day. That way I get a variety without having to do a lot of extra…

My husband and I eat a lot of stir fry. I also work a lot so it is easy to prep a bunch of veggies at the beginning of the week and add in whatever meat we are going to us. I can also cook him a side of rice or noodles if he wants extra carbs without adding a lot of work to making the meal. For an easy desert I so a lot of…

I eat soup almost everyday now that it is winter. It fills me up and I can incorporate a lot of veggies in with not a lot of effort. I usually with have a piece of fruit or some applesauce and be good to go until dinner time. Right now my go to is a sausage and potato soup with a chicken stock base.

I actually made the switch from WW to MFP a few months ago and so far I have liked the change. I still try to keep myself on the schedule I had with WW for weighing in and keeping focused on fruits and vegetables, but I do cheat periodically. I try to plan for it though and adjust the other meals I eat that day or try to…

I ran into this a few years ago when I damaged one of my ankles. It took me about three months before I could back to even light exercise. I found that the best thing I could do was to be extremely diligent about tracking what I was eating. It also gave me the opportunity to try out a lot of new healthy recipes since I had…

Roasted chickpeas are great. They are cheap, easy and really filling. There are lots of recipes for them with all kinds of seasonings.

I love to roast it and then toss it with some herbed olive oil and grilled shrimp.

Anything with roasted chickpeas is a great substitute for me. You can replace meat in a lot of dishes with then and if you roast until crispy they make a great snack.

Saute chopped red peppers and onion in a little olive oil. After a few minutes add in your corn and some salt and pepper. Continue cooking until corn is heated all the way through. (This may take longer for frozen corn than canned). This makes a great side for just about anything grilled or roasted.

I like apple crisp, you can add lots of other fruit to it and you can make it with a minimal amount of butter and sugar. I use lots of cinnamon, nutmeg and cranberries when I make it.

This falls more into the Americanized Chinese food, but it is super simple. Orange Chicken (Not Fried!) Sauté two chicken breasts that have been chopped into bite sized pieces in 1 T. olive oil. Mix together 4 tablespoons Hoisin sauce and 1 cup orange juice. Optional- Add dried pepper flakes to make this a spicy version of…

My father in law does low carb and I am cooking this year so I had to do some looking. Here is what we are going to have: Roasted Pork Loin Glazed Carrots/Parsnips Sesame Green Beans Roasted Apples & Cranberries Baguettes Ok, so the baguettes are not low carb, but that was a nod to everyone else who is not doing it.

I usually do a sweet and spicy carrot and parsnip dish. If you peel the carrots and parsnips and then slice them into 1/4 rounds and toss them in a saute pan with 2 TBS of maple syrup, a TSP of olive oil, and some cayenne pepper and cook over a medium low heat until soft they are delicious. Carrots and parsnips have a lot…

For me lunch is the hard meal. Right now I am all about soup. I usually make a big pot on a Sunday and portion it out for the week. That way all I have to do in the morning is grab my container of soup and go.