Ideas for healthy lunch/dinner food

[Ennovi]

Going grocery shopping today. I need ideas! :D
We are trying to eat healthier.

:)

[tropical]

Stay away from buying bread/tortillas (you can do without) it just takes getting used to. Olive oil/canola oil. Leaner cuts of meat. Bake/grill/crockpock soups as much as you can.

No direct recipes sorry.

[Azul y Vampy]

Lots of veggies (for salads, or steamed like broccoli, green beans), and lots of fruits (I eat an apple every day). Last night I made myself a salad w/ romaine lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, chopped red onion, banana peppers, chopped ham, shredded cheese, and a hard-boiled egg... sprinkled a little bit of dressing (light thousand island) and it was delish!! I actually made two, one to bring to lunch today, but hubby ate it last night... he never eats salads at home!
Also, I started buying products (like mayo, salad dressings, crackers, oatmeal, etc) that are "light" "fat free" "low sugar", etc. So far, I haven't noticed the difference, and most of them have 1/2 the calories/fat than the normal products.
Edit:
Oh, and if you MUST have bread, get the 100% whole wheat vs. the white bread.

[tropical]

Stay on the outer perimeter of the store, get very few things from the actual aisles...so fresh meat, fresh produce, etc. If you still have the regular version use less of it. I wish my husband would cooperate with this!

[y14gemini]

I love yogurt (vanilla) with granola.

[chalakita]

Whole bread bread, brown rice, whole spaghetti, tuna, fat free milk, fat free cheese, turkey ham, veggies, veggies and more veggies :) Fat free dressing, turkey bacon, fat free cheese sticks, avocado, protein bars, chicken!

[Bring Him HOME]

You can try the 100 cal snacks. Try to use the food pyramid as a guide as to your shopping :) you can google healthy food recipes and based your shopping off of that good luck :)

[MMGCA]

I agree, veggies lots of veggies...also alot of fruits. also buy fish, we eat fish atleast once a week. With that you can add stemed veggies, and or salad. It's delishes.....

[Hopefully]

- Whole grain pasta, brown rice instead of white pasta/rice. Whole grain bread.
- Tomato sauces that are low in sodium (<400mg) or make your own :)
- chicken breasts, ground sirloin (not chuck), ground turjey (low fat content)

Non-fat yogurt with fruit for snacks.

We make this for dinner a lot. We use lean meat (sirloin or turkey), brown rice, low sodium tomato sauce and cut right down on the cheese - it is yumm :)
http://southernfood.about.com/od/hamburgcasseroles/r/r81030j.htm

[Cherokee]

I love fish too! But hubby claims to hate it...whatever babes. haha. Anyway that can be so delicious with grilled broccoli and a sweet potato.
I also love seasoning or marinating chicken breasts and cooking them on my George Foreman grill. All the fat goes away! You can also make picadillo using ground chicken, chopped up carrots, onions and potatoes seasoned with a little salt, pepper and soy sauce. It's super yummy.
I also like to boil a sweet potato or yam and then mash it up with some equal (fake sugar) orange juice, lemon juice and salt. It's like candy baby.

[Ennovi]

I love these suggestions! Keep them coming. :)

[Bbarrz]

Last night I made albondigas (meatball soup). Boiled around 8 cups of water with a cup of rice and chicken cubes a bay leaf. Then mixed ground chicken with onion tomatoe and salt formed meatballs threw them in for about 20 mins then added veggies carrots potatoes celery brocolli and 1/2 a can of unsalted tomatoe sauce. My kids loved it!

[Salsa2]

When hubby is trying to lose weight our dinners consist of a small piece of lean grilled meat (chicken, pork chop, steak, fish) and a big salad:

baby spinach, tomato, cucumber, corn, kidney beans and avocado makes a nice salad, serve with olive oil/balsamic vinegar.

The greener your salad greens, the healthier the salad, so go for spinach or spring mix, b/c iceberg lettuce is worthless!

[playingcards]

ENSALADA DE NOPALES ~ CACTUS SALAD.... ummm yummmm

http://immigrate2us.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41294

[momof1]

I love to eat soup. Many times I make a barley vegetable soup, but I also eat progresso light or campbells select harvest light soups as well. I try to eat soup every single day. It fills you up without costing you too many calories.

We also buy a ton of organic fruit of different varieties: raspberries, strawberries, kiwi, apples, bananas.

I use lowfat dairy products because I don't think the fat free tastes very good. I also eat a probiotic yougurt every morning to keep things moving.

Dinners consist of some protein a few spoonfuls of rice and plenty of vegetables. We aways buy multigrain bread. I rarely buy ground beef. I buy extra lean ground turkey or lean ground chicken. If you cannot find a low cal/fat variety of ground chicken, have the butcher ground a package of chicken breast for you.

Healthy snack idea:
small banana frozen or one cup of frozen mixed berries
1 cup 1% milk
1 T raw honey

Put milk, honey, and frozen fruit in a blender until smooth. Voila! Quick and healthy smoothie.
Edit:
Also, the key is variety. If you eat the same thing all of the time, you obviously won't stick to your healthy eating plan.

Your goal should be to try a new vegetable or a new vegetable dish each week.

[Emily]

I love edamame. Boil with a little sea salt, and eat them right out of the pods. I'm not a fan of salads but i'm forcing myself to eat more of them. I make a low fat version of cevechi which consists of fat free salsa, cooked small shrimp, avacado, and lemon. I eat this with Rye crisps. another yummy snack is 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese topped with strawberries.

[marlene]

Good ones =]

[hopeful21]

I got this recipe from a former co-worker: Lettuce cups with chicken and mango salsa
First make a mango salsa with fresh/frozen chopped mango, chopped jalapenos, red onion, and cilantro. Then poach some chicken (sometimes they sell plain chicken at Trader Joes') chop it up. Spoon some chicken and mango salsa on lettuce cups (leaves)...it is so good. Absolutely refreshing and healthy, I especially love the sweet mango with the spicy and tangy flavors.
At first she would only make the salsa for potlucks, and we would eat it with chips. Then someone suggested the addition of chicken and lettuce and it worked :D

[saritaj14]

lunch: cereal (cheerios is my fave), indivdual fruit cups or fresh fruit, carrots and light ranch dressing, beef jerky, salad with a couple chicken strips

dinner: canned soup, egg beaters and precooked bacon or bacon bits, chili, grilled chicken breasts and green beans,

[momof1]

I've been eating optimum organic blueberry cinnamon cereal with hempmilk for breakfast. MMMMMMMMMMMMM It's very good and filling. It has plety of fiber, and the hempmilk has a lot of omega3 and omega6.