Your Questions About Healthy Recipes

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The main thing is to eat balanced meals.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal is GREAT for getting rid of cholesterol.
100% Orange juice (no sugar added-red the container), or grape juice (no sugar added).
One piece of toast.

Lunch:
Healthy sandwiches.
Hot stews or soups in wide mouth thermoses for at work (don’t forget the spoon).
Cold chicken salads in wide mouth thermoses for work/school (don’t forget the fork and crackers).
Fruit for dessert.

Dinner:
A balanced plate such as:
One meat/or fish/or chicken/or turkey (no to sausages).
One vegetable.
One starch which can be rice, or potatoes, or beans, or corn.
Fruit for dessert.
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1. At your grocery store, buy the sealed PRE-COOKED meats that come is small packages such as the following. You can make two or three meals out of them:

Beef tips with gravy,
Roast with gravy,
Pork roast,
Chicken,
Baked ham,
Pork chops,
Meatloaf,
etc.

Just heat in your microwave; directions are on the packages. You will find these packages in the cold section (not the freezer). Ask a clerk to help you find these. They are delicious.

Use these for your meat dish with a side dish or two of canned or frozen vegetables, beans, potatoes or sweet potatoes which can all be found on shelves or in the freezer section and they are already cooked.
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You can now buy bags of different flavors of precooked rice that you put into your microwave for a minute or two. These are on shelves at the grocery store. We like the chicken flavored best of all. Have a clerk help you find them.
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Real mashed potatoes that come in a bag…add water, butter, milk. Delicious. Read the directions.
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Buy top brand cans of stew for each person. Serve with cornbread, crackers, or toast.
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Soup and a grilled (fried) cheese sandwiches. Go to this video to see how to make a quick grilled cheese sandwich:
http://startcooking.com/video/326/Grilled-Cheese-Sandwich
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Omelet with Cheese – Video:
http://startcooking.com/video/326/Grilled-Cheese-Sandwich
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You can buy all types of salad greens in large packages now. Buy the ones that have been pre-washed. Add your own dressing which you can buy in bottles.
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2. The top brands of microwave frozen dinners are very good now. These come in single servings or in family sized bags. Follow directions. Look for the words “No Preservatives” marked on the box or package.
Just add a canned or frozen vegetable as a side dish.

Top brands of dinners that are found on shelves. No fridge needed. Add water, microwave. These are good to take to school or work. Follow directions on the containers.
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3. Video On How To Cook A Rib Eye Steak on Stove Burner (turn on your sound), click this link:
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-rib-eye-steak
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4. Supermarket deli’s have pre roasted chickens, fried chickens, roast beef, and side dishes. You can stop in on the way home and grab a quick dinner to take home. I buy their roasted chicken often…they are delicious.
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5. Buy a crock pot. You put everything into the pot in the morning, set it on low for 8 hours, and your dinner will be ready for you when you come home in the evening! I kid you not. Be sure to read the instruction booklet.
There is a recipe booklet that comes with the crock pot. You can buy crock pots at places such as your grocery store, Walmart, and etc.

Here are 1,160 crock pot recipes:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=crock+pot

DON’T FORGET TO PLUG IT IN! This happens more than you would think. Lol

6. Salads. All types:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/saladrecipes/Salad_Recipes_Salads_and_Dressings.htm

admin answers:

A simple chicken salad is good – with leftover chicken, cut into cubes, then add diced celery and some mayonnaise, salt. Easy! You could also make a green salad and cut cubes of leftover cooked chicken on top of that.

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I posted this recipe earlier, but it’s so good, I don’t mind doing it again.

On a piece of foil, place a salmon fillet and a bunch of asparagus. Salt and pepper them, and then cover in lemon juice. Roll the foil loosely (so that the insides can steam) and bake at 400 for 20 minutes. INCREDIBLY healthy and delicious. I usually serve it with couscous with dried cranberries and carrots in it

For breakfast, nothing nothing beats oatmeal. It’s healthy and so so filling.

Also, you can get some pork chops and marinate them in evoo, lemon juice, garlic powder, and rosemary for 6-12 hours, and then stick them under the broiler for 10 minutes on each side. SO easy, and really good.

Remember to treat yourselves now and then, or else you’ll end up craving sweets! I suggest a nice fruit dessert regularly. 🙂 Good luck!

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Keep a big jar of dry-roasted nuts and dried fruit & Craisins.. You can even take little baggies of this with you to school. ….. I used to layer yogurt with granola or apple-cinnamon wheat germ (in about 3 layers) in parfait glasses for my daughters. I’d do it the night before, and they’d have it for breakfast…..

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Homemade chicken fingers with sweet potato fries would be the perfect kid friendly food. Bread the white meat chicken breasts and bake them instead of frying. Sweet potatoes are a great alternative to regular potatoes. Bake the fries as well instead of frying. This will cut down on the fat content in ways that you can’t even imagine!

Turkey burgers are also very good. You can serve a pasta salad on the side with homemade dressing so you can control how much dressing is being added to the salad.

Any pasta dish can be made healthier with whole wheat pasta. These dishes include spaghetti, lasagna, and ravioli. Serve with whole wheat garlic bread instead of regular bread.

Soups make great homemade dishes as well. They can also be frozen so when the new baby comes along, they make quick dinners on crazy evenings.