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SweetTooth126

What's everyone eating these days? I need some new ideas. Stuck in a food rut!

I have overnight oats every morning for breakfast. For lunch I eat either a salad or turkey sandwich. Trying to lose weight so dinner is usually a protein with veggies (so boring). Share some ideas!

Bootsie81

We're having beef stew and cheddar bay biscuits.  Not exactly helpful in the losing weight department.

gipfish

For breakfast I make smoothies with frozen fruit, powdered veggies, oats, coconut oil, and chia seeds. The oats and coconut oil keep you full longer. That way if I miss lunch because my day is too crazy, I'm still functional.

For dinner:
- homemade pizzas on tortillas instead of dough (a lot less calories that way, and I can leave off the pizza sauce because I don't like tomatoes).
- very full salads (romaine, spinach, carrots, celery, grapes, oranges, bacon, chicken, eggs, cheese); it may sound like a lot of calories, but I find if I put enough yummy stuff on my salad, I don't even want dressing, and that balances out
- stir fry: veggies, meat, rice
- baked potatoes topped with steamed broccoli, bacon, and cheese (okay, so my family is the only one that puts broccoli on their potatoes, but it's good, I promise!)
- soups, chili
- I made fried chicken the other night. I just ate less of the chicken than I would if it was grilled. Gotta eat yummy!

SoFlaMommie1128

I made a delicious chicken tortilla soup last night. Pretty easy recipe from the food network! Most nights my husband does the cooking. We like making stir fry dishes with quinoa and steak (or chicken) and all kinds of veggies. For breakfast, it's usually oatmeal or eggs, and lunch is whatever is leftover.

SweetTooth126

@gipfish broccoli on potatoes is so yummy, especially with lots of cheese sauce lol

Thanks for the ideas! Time to go grocery shopping.

dramaphile

Made spaghetti squash chicken parm the other day and it was delicious!
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The cheese and breaded chicken probably negates the healthiness of the spaghetti squash, but it was really yummy.

kmd91

My dinners lately have consisted of hot pockets and canned soup because I really don't cook for just me and my husband is away. But some things that have been part of our menu since we started trying to eat more healthy (still not necessarily super healthy foods, but not super bad either)

Chicken, broccoli, rice casserole
Chicken curry
Cashew chicken
Turkey sloppy joes
Chicken fajitas
Baked chicken Parmesan
Chicken burritos
Black bean and avocado enchiladas

Honestly, I went to Pinterest and selected healthy recipes and started trying them out. Granted, that filter often shows me things like cookies and cake and 5 cheese macaroni and cheese with bacon, so I've gotta sift through and find ones that are actually healthy enough for our goal of eating healthy.

With that said, the night my husband comes home I'm making steak, loaded baked potatoes, and pepperoni pizza Mac and cheese, because forget diets for a special occasion!

bellie1223

I haven't felt like making elaborate meals lately so we've been doing a lot of easy stuff like...

-stir fries: frozen stir fry veggies from costco, rice and some kind of protein tossed with teriyaki sauce

-tacos: rice and beans, or meat for my husband loaded with veggies and hot sauce

-cold cut sandwiches or grilled cheese

-salads: I love doing a big greek salad with tomatoes, artichokes, kalamata olives, pepperocinis and a simple olive oil and balsamic dressing, it's so easy to cook a chicken breast for my husband's too. 

-pasta (not the healthiest, though I make my own whole wheat) with alfredo or red sauce.

Ceridwen77

I'm still eating food I froze this past summer/fall. I do make 1-2 fresh meals a week though. We are eating healthfully so I lean toward ethnic foods a lot of the time.

This week we had pork stir fry, coconut carrot soup, pho, turkey soup, and pasta with garlic scape pesto and tons of veggies.

ColoradoHiker

Homemade pizza, crockpot curry chicken, tacos, soup, etc. Nothing overly complicated.

rachswi

We try to make meals that have multiple servings so we can have it as many nights as possible. Some are healthy, others aren't. I know I should be eating better than I do but right now that's pretty far from my mind since the infant overlord demands my attention so often.

We do crockpot chicken, potatoes, and green beans. Tacos, enchiladas, pot pies, etc. Trying to branch out this week with shrimp jambalaya and lemon garlic tilapia. Even though the jambalaya takes a decent amount of work to make, we get like 10 servings (or 5 days of meals) out of it so it's totally worth it.

MargaretC5

Just one idea for when you have having something not so healthy for dinner, serve it with two veggies. That way you will naturally eat more veggies and less of the main course.

AmoLovesAud

I'm still in throw-whatever-in-the-crockpot-and-hope-its-edible mode. But last night I made curry and threw together a pizza casserole for tonight. Between leftovers of those, the French onion soup my dad is bringing over on Sunday, and easy salad dinners, I won't need to cook at all next week!

bellie1223

AmoLovesAud said:

I'm still in throw-whatever-in-the-crockpot-and-hope-its-edible mode. But last night I made curry and threw together a pizza casserole for tonight. Between leftovers of those, the French onion soup my dad is bringing over on Sunday, and easy salad dinners, I won't need to cook at all next week!

Mmmmm, tell me more about pizza casserole! We never ate casseroles as kids so I have a hard time coming up with creative recipes for those. My husband is getting tired of tuna casserole, I'm sure

AmoLovesAud

bellie1223 said:

AmoLovesAud said:

I'm still in throw-whatever-in-the-crockpot-and-hope-its-edible mode. But last night I made curry and threw together a pizza casserole for tonight. Between leftovers of those, the French onion soup my dad is bringing over on Sunday, and easy salad dinners, I won't need to cook at all next week!

Mmmmm, tell me more about pizza casserole! We never ate casseroles as kids so I have a hard time coming up with creative recipes for those. My husband is getting tired of tuna casserole, I'm sure

I kind of made it up as I went along, but: whole wheat pasta, jar of pizza sauce, pre shredded Italian blend cheese (bc lazy, but you could make your own mix if you wanted), and whatever toppings you like on your pizza  (we did mushrooms, peppers and tofurkey sausage).  Cook pasta, saute toppings, mix together with sauce and some of the cheese, top with more cheese, bake at 350 till bubbly (took 30 mins for me but it came out of the fridge).  Really I was craving lasagna or baked ziti, but DH isn't a fan, figured this was a little different from a regular Italian pasta bake.  He had seconds, so I'm call in it a win.

gipfish

That sounds delicious and easy! I'm all for a recipe thread. Keep 'em coming!

SweetTooth126

Meal ideas for next week: chicken enchiladas ("skinny" version on Pinterest), pot roast in the crock pot, and homemade naan bread pizzas (how have I never made them before?!). Actually excited about cooking!

rubirubi89

Doritos

eamarat

Made honey garlic chicken and brussel sprouts/leeks with bacon a few nights ago. Soooo yummy.

Eta finish my sentence 

Ceridwen77

I made braised turkey legs/thighs with potatoes and tons of veggies. Leftovers galore!!

VexedMommy

Portabello mushroom caps stuffed with ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan, spinach, and ground sausage.  I figured if I add spinach it's got to be healthy, right. . .