Does anyone have any good websites that I can use to look up good healthy recipies? Or have anything good that everyone just indulges over? I am trying to make new meals for my family and spice it up a bit for them I have a husband that eats anything I make, but a 14yr old boy who is somewhat picky and a 3yr old that will try anything she's a good eater. Over all they like chicken, vegetables, fish, salads, meats, caseroles, I'm trying to stay away from alot of pasta unless it contains something healthy in it.
Please share your secrests, and aby yummy drinks you make from scratch.
Thank you for taking the time to share!
I have a little blog that I update at least weekly with my own quick/nutritious/delicious successes in the kitchen - if you're interested. I've found the internet to be my biggest help in finding meal ideas.
www.quicklynutritiousanddelicious.blogspot.com
Good luck!
I love Cooking Light.com I've been getting the magazines for over 10 years. I cut out the recipes that I want to try and keep them in a folder. Once we try them and like them, we put them in clear plastic pages in a 3 ring binder. That is our cookbook!
try veryculinary... it's got great recipes designed for busy families!
My 13 year old son is a pcky eater. However two things that he LOVES I will give to you here. One is mashed potatoes. My son HATES potatoes, yet these ones, he even has seconds on.. Cook the potatoes in Chicken broth, not water. once they are done, mash them up, adding the chicken broth (not cream or milk) to the mashed potatoes. Add a pinch of salt and lots of pepper. Add sour cream and grated smoked Cheddar cheese. Mix this all together, then put it into a casserole dish. Add more grated smoked Cheddar cheese to the top of the potatoes. Bake them in a 350 degree oven until the cheese is all melted and the potatoes are hot. Then bake it just a little longer. Serve.
Also I make Mexican Chicken Quessadillas. They are wonderful!!! I got the recipe online from.... http://www.mex-recipes.com/chicken-quesadillas.html
J. Powers / Author
The Truly Grain Free Cookbook; Beet and Cane Sugar Free Too!
ISBN #: 1-60563-263-5
www.freewebs.com/trulygrainfree
I like to try recipes from www.savingdinner.com (she calls herself the Dinner Diva and she's a friend of Flylady, if you've heard of her). The lady is a nutritionist and does weekly menus for a very small fee, with the grocery list included so it takes all the thinking out of it. Some of the recipes are funky, but they are all healthy. I've liked them all, but my husband is a little pickier and even though he'll eat everything I make, sometimes he requests that I don't make some of the recipes again. She has samples of her weekly menus to try for free. That's enough to keep you busy for awhile! I don't sign up for her weekly menus because I have enough healthy recipes I already love and I would be overwhelmed by that many new recipes, but I love to buy her freezer meal recipe sets (they're cheap). For example, Five for the Freezer using Chicken. It's 5 healthy meals you prepare for the freezer for future use made with chicken. You can make one recipe and cook it the same day instead of making them all and freezing them. It takes all the thinking out of it since she has a grocery list, nutritional information, serving suggestions (which she includes on the grocery list with an asterik for you to buy if you decide to).
I also sign up for her weekly newsletters with healthy eating advice that include a tip and a recipe.
As far as pasta goes, I buy whole wheat pasta from Sprouts (Trader Joes has it too) so it's a complex carb, with more nutritional benefit.
I have a Vitamix blender (it's expensive, though) and I use that to help me make super healthy smoothies and soups.
epicurious.com. They allow you to search for quick and easy recipes, recipes for picky eaters, kid friendly recipes, search for recipes using specific ingredients or avoiding others. I use them all the time.
allrecipes.com is awesome!! You can look up by ingrediants or type of dish. And they have a rating system so you can see how the recipes were from people that have tried them. Good luck!!
My favorite things to cook are from this guy www.samthecookingguy.com Super easy recipes that are sooo good. He was on the local station in San Diego when I lived ther and now he is everywhere (Good Morning America, Discovery Health, and even Howard Stern). He is on Cox local channel 7 so you can see his show. They are out of his kitchen at his house. He has one cookbook out adn another comming out in April. He posts recipes on his web site. I absolutely love him (if oyu couldnt tell). Hope this helps....and let me know what you think.
CookingLight.com. We've subscribed for years and have yet to have a bad recipe. Every one has been a keeper.
paula dean .com is a great website
