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[quote=Anonymous]Here are a few that are quick and healthy and on our regular rotation:

— bean quesadillas. Canned beans, mash on a tortillas with a form, top with cheddar and another tortilla, fry in olive oil, top with chopped grape tomato’s and avocado.  (Can also add scallions, sautéed mushroom, leftover meat, butternut squash puree, roasted corn, whatever).

— Costco spinach ravioli from frozen section topped with chopped tomatos and olive oil.

— runners pancakes.  1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 t baking powder, 1 t cinnamon, in blender then fry.  Serve with fruit and real maple syrup.

— smitten kitchen squash pancakes (roast the squash over the weekend).

— fried egg and cheese sandwich, served with spinach smoothie (half a bag of spinach improved for 1 min, banana, cup frozen mango, 1 T chia seeds, mango/peach/vanilla Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup low fat milk).

— grilled salmon (I get the pre marinated at Costco) served with orzo and peas.  This takes 20 minutes even with the preheating.  Can do it in oven too but grill means the house doesn’t smell fishy.  Add a cup frozen peas to the orzo 1 minute before it’s done boiling.  Strain then add a pat of butter into the orzo and pea mixture.  Add fresh grated parm if you like it.

— garlic shrimp on pasta.  Nothing cooks faster than shrimp!

— if your kids will eat spinach, it’s really easy to just sauntee some sliced  chicken or chicken sausage in olive oil with chopped garlic, add in some chopped fresh spinach at end, add a cup of pasta cooking water, and put over pasta with Parmesan and some chopped fresh tomato if you want.  You can basically do all that in the 10 minutes the pasta is on the pot.  You can do broccoli or whatever instead of spinach too.  Anything is delicious sautéed in olive oil with garlic and topped with Parmesan.

And here’s on I loved as a single woman but couldn’t get my kids to love:

— sautee chopped carrots and canned chick peas in olive oil with lots of garlic and curry powder.  Can add tomatos if you have some to use up.  Serve over store bought garlic naan.

Chick peas also work well to stretch out a tuna salad so the kids don’t get quite as much tuna if you’re worried about mercury.  High protein and fiber.  [/quote]

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