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FaithS · 01-05-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by silly me!

Hi! I was wonderin if you know of a recipe I can use every day that doesn't require to much work and doesn't crunch my dollars. I am trying to eat healthy and and lose 10 pounds! I eat 5 meals a day, two snacks, breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Dinner is my biggest concern. It has to be the smallest meal and something so easy I can make every day! Not to mention something I enjoy eating as well!

Chemar's recipe sounds wonderful, but, her definition of an easy recipe is more time-consuming than mine.

Some quick suggestions, when cooking cheap and healthy for one:
1. Throw some brown rice and either split peas, or dried lentils into a pot with appropriate amount of water (see directions on back of packages). If you want to add some diced carrots, green peppers, whatever, while you're cooking, you can. Or you could add tomato soup, or cook in chicken broth instead of water. Takes awhile to cook, but, not much of your time. Just start it early and let it cook while you do other things.
If you don't add veggies to the rice mixture, serve some on the side.

2. Tuna sandwiches (on 100% whole wheat bread), or add egg to canned tuna and cook into tuna burgers. (I find that using the tuna can to shape the burgers works well.) I wouldn't recommend eating tuna more than 2-3 times a week, though, because of possible mercury poisoning. Sefve with a vegetable and/or fruit.

3. Make a 3-bean salad with a can of green beans, a can of kidney beans, and a can of lima beans, or some other 3rd variety of beans. Will keep for several days, so you don't need preparation time each day. Serve with something whole grain.

4. Fat-free cottage cheese is another good meat-less protein, that can be served with a whole grain, and a fruit and/or vegetable.

I need to take my own advice. Thanks for getting me thinking about this, Silly Me. Should work for noon meals alone at home, when I can eat healthy without other family members complaining. Using the same recipe every day isn't a bad idea. You don't have to think and plan ahead much. And, I've heard that you often eat less if you eat the same thing daily.

A nutritionist on another site recently suggested only veggies, salad, quality fat and protein and no rice, potatoes.....at dinner. You are less active in the evening and carbs need to come in the daytime when you're active. I might try that too, cooking what I think my family will like, but picking and choosing which food groups I eat.

~ Faith