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I feel like shit and have done for a while. I’m so, so tired and sinking into depression. I eat crap. Ready meals, cereal bars, “breaded chicken” etc ... I think if I could eat better I’d feel better. I’ll eat anything but salad.

I need recipes and meal ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinners. Doing an online shop now

Breakfast is easy - cereal/scrambled egg on toast/ omelette

Lunch - soup is a winner in our house with some thick slices of tiger bread

Dinner - cottage pie

Get some of those Maggi sheets for chicken. You wrap them round the chicken, put it in frying pan on low heat and just cook them for 10 minutes either side - add some rice and veg and that's a meal sorted

Mayflower chicken curry powered, diced chicken, an onion, some frozen peas, rice. Super easy, quick and delicious!
Hope you start to feel better ❤️

Learn to make soups- they are surprisingly quick and easy and infinitely variable.

Have you got a slow cooker? Maybe a good investment if not as you can do pretty much anything from curries, soups and bolognese to frittata, breads and puddings.

Thai green or red curry
Fry an onion in coconut oil

Add the curry paste( the one they do in Sainsbury’s is good)

Add diced chicken or some prawns

A tin of coconut milk and simmer for15 mins, then add a pack of bamboo shoots

Serve With rice , completely delicious

Spaghetti carbonara. Always my go to if unwell or exhausted or hungover and everyone likes it.

Eggs are a good quick and easy breakfast-scrambled on multigrain seeded bread toast was my favourite healthy start before I went vegan. You can do the eggs while the bread is in the toaster. I like avocado on toast, or scrambled tofu. That’s pretty easy too.

Soups are brilliant for lunch. Most freeze well so you can make a big batch and freeze some. I make one a week - eat two portions and freeze two portions. After a few weeks you end up with a good selection of flavours.

Breakfast lunch or/and dinner:

A wrap (any wrap but seeded or wholewheat probably a better choice), spread with tomato sauce (I use a couple of spoons of Aldi's sun Dried tomato pasta sauce), baby leaf spinach or rocket scattered over as generously as you like, a drizzle of pesto if you like it. Strips of Parma ham are a tasty addition but not essential and finally grated cheese (I buy grated emmental) pop into the oven for ten or so mins, the spinach will have wilted and the cheese melted. Slice like a pizza and enjoy. You can have all these ingredients in your cupboard/fridge so minimal effort and shopping.

Brown bread: 1lb made up with wholewheat flour and seeds (sunflower and pumpkin but the sunflower go green on cooking!), 2 teasp bicarbonate of soda, mix together the add one beaten egg and enough buttermilk to make a sloppy mixture (about 500ml), pop into a lined loaf tin and bake at 170°C for an hour or until it is deep Brown. Have this with pesto on or peanut butter & jam or cream cheese and pickle. Good fibre and energy.

Overnight oats or porridge in the morning with some chopped fruit

Make a big pot of soup for lunch. If you are knackered buy fresh or frozen diced veg or chop the veg with a food processor.

Look for easy roast and one pot dishes where you can make enough for a couple of meals and freeze. e.g. chicken thighs roasted with peppers, onions, garlic and olive oil, you can have then hot with rice or cous cous or cold with salad.

For a quick breakfast, I like an apple and a slice or two of cheese.

IIRC, there was a Sainsbo ad when smoothies first came in - v.v. easy - a banana, a cup of apple juice and a handful of your chosen fruit, which can be fresh, frozen or tinned. Whizz them together. Drink

Really easy and healthy things I have which might be good
Breakfast - overnight oats - so oats, oat milk, frozen berries and cinnamon. Or eggs with soldiers is good too.
Dinners - pesto pasta with frozen edamame beans
Salmon with those ready made grain pouches
Tuna pasta - tuna with mayo, olives, pepper and sweet corn.
Egg fried rice with whatever veg you have and frozen prawns then scramble in the egg at the end and add some soy sauce and honey

One of my comfort foods is tortilla with smoked salmon, some chopped peppers and cottage cheese.
Then there is white bread with scrambled egg on top. My DH thinks I am a bit of a barbarian, because I like a bit of coriander in my scrambled egg and omelets, so I don't do it when I share with him.
Real comfort food is my dad's omelets, but they are a couple of inches thick and the pan gets too heavy for me to handle when I try to do that one. His omelettes have slices of boiled potato in them. I think it is a Spanish recipe.
You can boil some Jerusalem artichokes and then puree them in a blender with a bit of water. Just add some salt and white pepper. It is a great soup.

Breakfast:
Avocado on toast
Fried eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, Parma ham
Omelette with mushrooms and a bit of grated cheese
Porridge w dried apricots/grated apple

Lunch:
Ready to eat grain pouch with fresh smoked mackerel (comes in vacuum packs) chopped beetroot and handful of spinach (have half one day half the next)

Smoked salmon and watercress sandwiches on nice granary bread with an apple on the side

Pitta stuffed with hummus, falafel and grated carrot

Dinner:
Chilli - easy recipes online but fry onion garlic, red pepper and green pepper, add mince, add tinned tomatoes tinned red kidney beans, tsp of cumin and chilli powder, stir and leave. Makes enough to freeze

Salmon fillet with roasted new potatoes and broccoli - stick it all on a tray in oven

Chicken breast with sweet potato, carrots/sprouts/ veg of choice - stick on tray in oven add gravy if you like

Fresh egg fusilli pasta (or any other sort) with Stilton, spinach or broccoli and walnuts stirred through. Takes about 10 mins (Use spinach in lunches/omelette too so get a big bag)

Chicken casserole - some chicken bits - thighs/breast fillets or diced, fresh veg or bag of frozen casserole veg all pre chopped and stock. Serve with bread or rice or baked potato

If I'm on my own I just do baked potato, omelette or soup

Even start small with mince/lentil or quorn mince and add a spag bol sauce and veg and work up from there

Following this to make some notes later

Cook a serving of pasta - 4 minutes before the end adds some broccoli florets. Strain and return to pan. Stir through a teaspoon of pesto and some passata and tip into an ovenproof dish. Top with a handful of grated cheese and pop in a medium oven for 20 minutes.

Easy to ring the changes - eg add mashed up tuna, capers, a little chopped chilli and lose the cheese or add some shredded cooked chicken and sweetcorn.

Another easy pasta dish is to fry some lardons (or chopped up bacon), add some shredded leeks, just cover with vegetable stock and simmer for half an hour until the leeks are really soft and most of the stock has evaporated. Serve over pasta.

Lunch: bag of salad, seeds sprinkled on top ( mixed bag from Morrisons to see if you like them) dressing: balsamic vinegar and olive oil. serve with cous cous ( add boiling water, cumin, turmeric, sultanas) rice, nice bread, or boiled potatoes etc. You can add cooked chicken or chick peas or anchovies or olives or tins of mixed beans... Whatever you fancy.

I decided recently I’d like to improve my diet in the hopes I’d feel better in myself - I’ve been adding a banana to healthy cereal for breakfast and made a big sauce with tomatoes, peppers, courgette and anything else I could find and have it with pasta or rice at lunch in the week. I’m also taking natural yoghurt and granola in as a snack.
I’m still working on evening meals but I’m making sure no matter what I have that I add a big portion of veg to it even if it’s just frozen veg.
Plus drinking lots of water. It’s made a difference to me just in a week.

So far this week we’ve had:
Chilli packed with vegetables
Chicken fajita stuffed mushrooms
Steak and salad
Aloo ghobi with beef and salsa
Egg bacon burger mushroom and beans
Jackfruit with crushed peas and new potatoes
Tonight we are having prawn Bhuna with rice and onion bhajis

Eggy bread. Fast lunch, breakfast.

Buy the big trays of pork loin steaks and chicken breasts. Separate into ziplock bags, as many as you need in each bag for a meal.

Then add different flavours in each bag.

• red wine
• honey and mustard
• lime, honey and coriander
• bbq sauce
• garlic, lemon and oregano
• balsamic vinegar, garlic, cherry tomatoes chopped in half

Freeze them.

In the morning take out a bag and leave in the fridge, in the evening put on a baking tray 20-39 minutes in the oven on gas 6. Serve with:

• microwave rice
• tenderstem broccoli and asparagus drizzled with Oil and roasted same time and temp as the meat.
• pasta in tomato sauce
• macaroni and cheese
• potato - wedges/roasted/mash/boiled
• shredded and in a wrap with grated cheese and salsa

That should be 20-30 minutes

Whatever you cook, make double and either freeze one portion or heat thoroughly the next day for an easy meal.

Impossible quiche is simple: www.taste.com.au/recipes/impossible-quiche-2/8244d479-b108-4b9c-9727-25e7041d8fd2

Lwmommy

Excellent ideas.