What are your healthy breakfast, lunch, or dinner recipes?
ByEveryone, what are your favorite low cal and nutritional meals? This should be some good inspiration and resources for everyone on this board. 
I’ll share one of mine:
Dinner:
steamed pesto chicken breasts (serves 2)
In your steamer, assemble 2 6-oz chicken breasts, 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken broth, 4 Tablespoons fresh basil, minced fine, 4 cloves minced garlic, dash each of salt and pepper, 1/4 cup white wine, and 2 Tablespoons toasted pine nuts. Steam for 20 min., or until chicken is all the way cooked.
Serve with brown rice pilaf (serves 2)
Saute 1 cup shiitakes, sliced (or other mushrooms), one med. onion, minced, and 1 clove of garlic, minced, in 1/2 cup of low-sodium chicken broth. When onions are translucent, add 1 C. of cooked brown rice, and season with Spike. Heat rice through and serve.
Awesome green beans:
1 lb green beans
2 Tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
2 oz prosciutto, cut in tiny pieces
1 Tablespoon olive oil
Brown prosciutto pieces in pan, and toast sesame seeds. Set aside. In skillet, heat olive oil and cook green beans until tender. Toss with sesame seeds and prosciutto.
One of my ‘hints’ is to use chicken or beef broth when sauteeing anything, instead of olive oil or butter – serves the same function, while adding NO fat, and almost no calories (only 10 cals. for 1 cup of this stuff.)
Try looking at WebMD since they have loads of healthy recipes and you can sign up and have them sent to your email. They send a few each week. Most of my recipes are healthy ones and my favorites or I would not be making them. Most recipes also can be changed to become healthy or better for you than how they are made up. Just need some experience.
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March 7th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
breakfast
2 scrambled eggs no oil or milk or butter cook in non stick pan
2 slices whole grain bread or bowl of puffed wheat cereal its organic cereal nothing added all natural
inbetween a banana
lunch grilled chicken breast over a bed of ice berg lettuce onion cherry tomatoes carrots olives and feta or cheddar cheese reduced fat
snack blue diamond or any brand nuts just a ounce
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March 7th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Try looking at WebMD since they have loads of healthy recipes and you can sign up and have them sent to your email. They send a few each week. Most of my recipes are healthy ones and my favorites or I would not be making them. Most recipes also can be changed to become healthy or better for you than how they are made up. Just need some experience.
References :
March 7th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Dinner.
Baked Lamb Shanks.
6 lamb or hogget shanks (knuckles)
2 onions sliced
1 carrot chopped
3-4 tbsp tomato soup powder
1 cup of water
Rosemary sprigs or dried rosemary.
Trim shanks carefully removing as much fat as possible.
Spread onion and carrot in a shallow roasting pan or baking dish.
Place soup powder in a plastic bag and in it shake lamb shanks a few at a time to coat evenly. Arrange lamb on top of vegetables.
Add water and a sprinkling of rosemary. Cover pan with foil.
Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 2 1/2 hours or until very tender.
Serve garnished with fresh herbs or sprinkled with chopped parsley and grated lemon rind. Serve with mashed potatoes and colourful vegetables.
Lunch.
Club sandwiches. 3 fillings between 4 slices of bread. Cut into fingers or cubes.
Pinwheels.
Lay an assortment of fillings across the bread and roll up.
For the Club Sandwiches and Pinwheels use bread that is sliced length ways.
Rolls. Wrap Asparagus spears, Seafood sticks, Shredded chicken, etc in a slice of bread at the diagonal.
Breakfast.
Cornflakes, fruit and milk. (hot milk in winter)
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