In light of the recent 'healthy' threads, I think it would be a good idea to have a thread for all our healthy ideas for meals, salads, and snacks. Anyone up for it? Please do share so we can all benefit.

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Three meals meaning breakfast, lunch, and dinner or the three meals of Shabbos?

Rather Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Shabbos is an entirely different story. Although I'd love to hear ideas as well.

Actually, post whatever you want. I'll share my ideas as I go along.

Typical day in Classic's life:

Breakfast:
branflakes and 1% milk
fruit

Lunch:
several slices of high fiber, whole grain bread or crackers
some sort of cheese, PB, eggs, or fish
variety of vegetables
fruit

Dinner varies from day to day, week to week. Some of the things I make:
lentil soup with ww toast
split pea soup with chunks of chicken
stiry fry veggies and chicken with ww pasta
ww spaghetti and meatsauce with veggies
turkey chili on brown rice
veggie burgers with ww wraps and fresh veggies
mushroom barley beef soup
ww pizza with veggies and soy chicken
tuna casserole
baked fish with brown rice and veggies
sloppy joe's stuffed in zuchinni
ww meat and veggie lasagna

and fruit for dessert.

Care to share these four recipes?

Thanks

How do you stomach so much whole wheat pasta, Classic? You don't find it too gritty?

lentil soup:
1 onion
1 cup green lentils (if presoaked it cooks faster)
2 zuchinnis (and/or celery or any other vegetables you like)
2 carrots
2 cloves of garlic
6-10 cups of water
salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, and a drop of cinnamon, to taste (and any other spices you'd like)
Bring everything to a boil and then simmer for 35-50 minutes.

turkey chili:
soak kidney beans (or use canned)
1/2 lb of ground turkey
1/2 lb of ground meat
saute 2 cloves of garlic, 1/2 an onion, 2 carrots for 10 minutes with lots of sweet paprika, and salt, pepper and cinnamon to taste
add meat to saute
pour over this mixture the following:
1 small container (about 1/3 a cup) of tomato paste
1/2 cup water
2 tsp oil
2 tbls ketchup
1 leveled tsp of (healthy-ish) chicken soup mix powder
add the cooked kidney beans at this point. Let everything cook together on a low heat for about a half hour.

tuna casserole:
cook pasta
take frozen peas and carrots, mix them with pasta, part-skim mozzarella cheese, tuna, a drop of mushroom soup mix, and milk.
bake until the top layer is golden brown.

baked fish and vegetables:
(I use Nile Perch because it's the only fish I can find locally that I like other than salmon.)
Layer the bottom of a baking dish with sliced onion.
Rub spices (salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, thyme) on both sides of the fish (for frozen fish, use more spices because of the extra water).
Place fish on top of onions.
Layer vegetables of your choice on top of the fish (I use zuchinni and tomato), and add some spices (salt, pepper, paprika) on the vegetables.
(Add some wine if you wish.)
Bake until done.


Nope. I can't stomach white pasta anymore. I really enjoy the nuttier flavor and the richer texture of the whole wheat. Everything's an acquired taste.

Today I did a sponsored charity walk of (supposedly) 25k, although my pedometer read over 19 miles. That used up over 2300 calories so it didn't matter much what I ate... but for the record I had oatmeal porridge for breakfast, made with 0% fat milk and a dash of salt, Scottish style.. no time for anything else. Lunch was a ww sandwich with sardines and salad and a granola bar and a sharon fruit (on the walk). Dinner was a piece of chicken, salad, and some butternut squash and celery root kugel. Oh and another sharon fruit.

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Try whole spelt. I don't do much pasta to begin with, but if I do, it's whole spelt.

Thanks for the recipes Classic. I'll be sure to look it up when I want to make them.

Apparently it's known as a Persimmon. Hehe, another example of two countries separated by a common language

how come ww tortillas are over $1 more per package than reg?


yum!

Because they know they can rip you off. Anything healthy goes for more money because people that are health minded are willing to shell out the bucks.

I just ate
1/2 can salmon with chopped purple onion and a dollop of lite mayo
2 whole spelt breadsticks
blended veggie salad

I love blended veggie salad and it's SO simple to prepare.

Please let us in on the secret.

Depending on what veggies you go for. I blended 2 plum tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, 1/2 lemon, 1 clove garlic, lemon pepper spice, and salt. It's tasty, very refreshing, and easier to tackle than that many veggies cut up. You can add pepper, celery, carrot etc.. according to your liking.