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[quote=Anonymous]The 10-grocery-items thread got me thinking about my limited meal planning, esp in regards to breakfast and dinner.   Anyway, please let me know what you would do to pimp my meal plans to make them more...exciting, while still being nutritious and easy to make.  I am always the breakfast maker while DH and I trade off on dinner.

Note: I generally have an idea of what is healthy and what isn't.  So no need to mention anything about the Nutella or the oatmeal-in-packet vs slow cooked.  We do real peanut butter vs the processed kind.  I know red meat will kill me.  I know we don't eat kale and it is for a reason.  Etc.

[b]Breakfast:[/b]  Today it was oatmeal from packet.  Think yesterday it was turkey bacon and eggs or eggbeaters (cant remember), do cereal a few times a week, generally a Kashi kind although the last kind I bought tastes like twigs.  Sometimes do omlettes w/the eggbeaters that have the veggies already in and some shredded cheese.  Waffles from time to time if they are in the freezer w/real maple syrup (not that pancake syrup...yuck), sometimes toast w/butter or peanut butter or Nutella and a yogurt.  Will do pancakes from scratch or french toast on the weekends. Add apple or orange slices or a piece of fruit to the above almost every day.  Was on a v-8 kick for a while and making everybody drink that, but lately I have been alternating btw milk or Trop 50 to drink.

[b]Dinner:[/b] Try to do salmon once/a week, but don't do much else fish-wise.  Sometimes DH does tuna steaks.  We pretty much always have a steak of some kind once/week but are cognizant to limit it to this.  Chicken breasts once/week or so (btw, just discovered the Natures Promise organic breasts...so much more delicious than the Perdue, etc.).  Was doing a lot of Giant rotisserie chicken but DH is sick of them.  Don't do much pasta, although we did have some pasta w/meat sauce over the weekend which was delicious.  Meatloaf w/ground turkey v occassionally.  Do pork tenderloin maybe 1-2 times/month, especially now that it is grilling season and a pork chop every now and again but not a big fan.  Homemade pizza every now and then.  For the non-meat portion of the evening, sometimes get a salad at Giant or make a tossed salad.  Have broccolli 1-2/week and asparagus the same--these are staples.  Sweet potatoes are staples also, either baked or made into fries.  Get little potatoes and roast them prob once/week.  Corn on the cob at least once/week in the past month.  Sometimes tomato/mozarella.  Chili in the winter, sometimes other soups.  Fruit salad (cut up by me, not premade) every now and then.  Fajitas occassionally but not enough since they are delicious, same w/quesadillas.  Make turkey burgers from time to time, don't know why not more often.[/quote]

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