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[quote=Anonymous]I highly recommend pre-prepping colorful veggies (red pepper, carrot, purple cabbage, blanched green beans or asapargus) and greens, especially thinly chopped kale or chard or spinach.  Keep in large mixing bowl in fridge.  I mix in handfuls of mixed greens from the grocery store.  Then, keep preparing, every few days, some kind of legume based soup or just cooked beans, such as:  black beans, white beans, veggie soup, leftover chicken soup (if you are not veggie) even leftover lasagna, cooked salmon, whatever warm, satisfying thing you have.  Then, heat a bowl of the protein/bean/leftover thing, and mix it with the chopped salad.  Dress with either nothing or lemon juice.  It is delicious, satisfying, very nutritious.

I have coffee in the am, a giant mixing bowl full of this "soup and salad" mixture around 2pm, then nothing or a very light bit of whatever my husband and kids are having in the evening. (usually they are having what I will be mixing with greens the next day).  You can add cooked cubed squash or sweet potato, any grain you like (cooked quinoa, barley, I LOVE purple rice).  I just love this meal.  It is like a variation on taco salad I guess, very satisfying.  This plus exercise have taken me, at 45 years old, to my 125 lb hot body of yore.  And I feel so so good!

For the protein, I recommend preparing the beans in the crock pot every few days.  I just dump them in with lots of water and let them cook and get soft throughout the the day, then prepare a thick, heavily seasoned saute later to mix in and season the beans.  We eat a lot of beans and my kids love them.  If you think your kids "won't eat beans", just starve them until they get used to it.  Sorry, but it works.  They don't "have to have" nuggets, fries, or anything else.  My kids can eat my delicious lentils, bean tostadas, lasagna, or have nothing.  They choose to eat.  They think sweet potatoes are a treat.  They get plenty of treats just at b-day parties, and every holiday every time I turn around.  There is no need for any junk food on a day to day basis.  [/quote]

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