Need ideas for healthy, quick dinners

[Anonymous]

A few favorites:

1. ground beef (or chicken or turkey) browned, make your own red sauce with pureed tomato sauce and italian seasonings, minced garlic, and serve over zuchinni noodles - you should have leftovers for another meal next time you buy fresh zuchinni

2. grilled chicken with 1/2 sweet potato each & baked asparagus - grill chicken or shred it in crockpot ahead of time so you always have cooked chicken on hand (or buy rotisserie) - heat up chicken & sweet potato each in microwave. Asparagus on cookie sheet, drizzle 2 tsp or less of extra virgin olive oil, add slivered almonds & sprinkle of sea salt - oven at 400 for 20 minutes - delish.

3. http://www.lisahovhealthfitness.com/main-dish/macaroni-cheese/ - healthy & easy

4. http://www.foodiewithfamily.com/baked-ricotta-fast-and-fabulous-appetizer/ - use this baked ricotta as your protein (or make it 1/2 ricotta mix, 1/2 chicken), put over brown rice or wheat noodles, with your homemade red sauce

5. http://bodybeastmobile.teambeachbody.com/en_US/food/recipes/beast-turkey-chili - this turkey chili is really really good, I use ground chicken instead, skip the green peppers & double the low-sodium tomato sauce

[Anonymous]

Lots of great ideas here OP but just a warning, you may not have time to do more than open yogurt or microwave soup the first few months with your baby. Still good to know for before and after those first months.

[Anonymous]

I'm really loving Trader Joe's soyaki sauce lately. Buy a bag of individual frozen salmon filets or chicken breasts. Thaw two and drizzle on soyaki right before baking. Can drizzle a bit more when it comes out of the oven if you like, but marinating time is not required. Microwave some precut broccoli florets and add a side of rice (either make it fresh or Traders Joe's frozen rice is surprisingly good and microwaves in 3 minutes!). A healthy, tasty dinner in <20 minutes, only about 5 minutes of which is active prep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skim the 'quick and easy meals' tag on Skinnytaste. I've had a lot of success with recipes from this site.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/search/label/Quick%20and%20Easy%20Meals

+1 to Skinny Taste!

We do a lot of tacos, stir fry variations, salads, soups, and crock pot.

I agree; I learned about Skinnytaste from DCUM. Her eggplant meatballs are great and freeze well.

[Anonymous]

These look pretty good.

http://www.bonbonbreak.com/ramen-pack-hacks/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skim the 'quick and easy meals' tag on Skinnytaste. I've had a lot of success with recipes from this site.

http://www.skinnytaste.com/search/label/Quick%20and%20Easy%20Meals

+1 to Skinny Taste!

We do a lot of tacos, stir fry variations, salads, soups, and crock pot.

I agree; I learned about Skinnytaste from DCUM. Her eggplant meatballs are great and freeze well.

I just recently got into Skinnytaste, I bought the cookbook but the website has even more recipes. Her recipes have turned out really well and my kids seems to like them also. I think it's sort of an unfortunate name in that I wouldn't say the recipes are overly "diet" - they remind me of cooking light recipes, but I think the name suggests recipes that are overly focused on the "skinny" and these are just really good everyday recipes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The America's Test Kitchen 30-minute Recipes cookbook is SO good. I got it after hearing multiple recommendations on here, and it hasn't disappointed yet! Every recipe I've tried has been delicious -- and they all take less than 30 minutes, for real (not like Martha's "quick" recipes or, even worse, Rachel Ray's).

Which one is this? America's test kitchen "Quick family cookbook"? or Cook's Illustrated The Best 30-Minute Recipe?

I was wondering this too.

[Anonymous]

I love doing ground turkey taco bowls - TJs microwave rice, canned black beans, ground turkey with chili powder/cumin/paprika, Greek yogurt, shredded lettuce or purple cabbage, chopped tomato, hot sauce. Absolutely delicious and takes maybe 15-20 mins start to finish. I chop the tomatoes and set everything out while the turkey is cooking.

[Anonymous]

Bumping this thread. Not OP.

If anyone has ideas that haven't been posted, especially ones that most people don't already know, I'd love to read them. Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bumping this thread. Not OP.

If anyone has ideas that haven't been posted, especially ones that most people don't already know, I'd love to read them. Thanks in advance!

PP. Would especially welcome vegetarian ideas!

[Anonymous]

I have started to have make your own spring rolls as a regular rotation. It’s pretty easy and quick. I get basil, cilantro, cook rice noodles quickly, bean sprouts, cucumber, avocado, mango, baked tofu. Assembly takes minutes.

[Anonymous]

This was pretty good and super easy. It makes a ton, though. I froze enough for another two meals.

https://pinchofyum.com/crockpot-red-lentil-curry

[Anonymous]

Google "Sheet Pan Dinners." There are a ton and they are generally really quick.

[Anonymous]

This one takes me really quick to put together and the kids like it.

https://cookieandkate.com/baked-asparagus-frittata/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Google "Sheet Pan Dinners." There are a ton and they are generally really quick.

Also I saw something the other day where someone was using different size sheet pans. Which I thought was brilliant because some ingredients don’t cook at the same rate so you can set your entire sheet pan up by ingredient. You also don’t have food contamination that way. if you’re doing half or quarter sheets (think there are eighths as well) you’d pull them as soon as that component is done. Or you can set up a meal by individual. It may seem contra to it being a quick easy meal but having a tray with just onions another with just protein, another with a squash or something like that would make more sense then putting it all together and not everything being cooked well.