Healthy Eating meal ideas needed...Please

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Hello, Just wondered if anyone has any easy, healthy meal ideas?
Ideally need a weeks meal planner for all the family.

Thank you in advance

When planning meals, compose them this way:

Per person:

• one serving of lean meat or fish
• one serving of carbohydrate
• one serving of cooked vegetable
• one serving of raw vegetable
• one serving of fresh or just cooked fruit

A serving is a fist-size (ie depends on size of person).

Eat like this twice a day, with a high-grain cereal for breakfast.

Thank you Anna

Did this last night, inspired by something in the Somerfield magazine. Stir fry strips of lean pork fillet (or would work with any other meat or tofu if you are veggie), when cooked stir in half-fat creme fraiche (guess you could substitute yogurt if you wanted to cut fat even lower) with half teaspoon english mustard and a dollop of honey and season with cracked black pepper. i guess you could leave honey out too if you were really trying to minimise cals. We had it with a big veggie stir fry. Delish!

Have written that one down countryhouse Thanks

Adding to my threads list as I need lots of help here.

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ooooh sounds great!

Just registering my interest for later

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Vegetable soup

Fry onions in oil. Add root veg. e.g. turnip, swere, parsnip & carrot, cook for 5 mins until golden (don't think is essential). Add stock (either homemade or water and stock cube). Cook for 40/50 mins.
I always throw in lentils (cook seperately for 10mins first and remove scum), other green veg dependent on how long they need cooking. Can also add potatoes or other carbohydrates to make a whole meal in a bowl. Blitz in food processor. I'm no good with amounts if getting too thick just add more water.
Make sure you have plenty of plastic pots/ ice cube trays so you can put it all in the freezer for when you want it.
Perfect for a quick lunch on a cold day

Me too

One of my favourite speedy meals at the moment is pasta with green beans(add to the pasta when 2 mins left), pesto and halved cherry toms mixed in.

Another is baked/grilled marinated chicken and couscous with some grated lemon rind, chick peas, paprika and fresh coriander (if you have) mixed through.

Hi,

I have started a meal planner food blog at this address

slummymummyeats.blogspot.com/

whether I manage to do more than one week is anyones guess...

Hope that helps, comments gratefully received. As long as they're nice ones

eternalstudent, what a brillianthelp! I have printed your recipes off. The chicken and chorizo stew sounds yum!

(hope the funeral went as well as it could BTW xx)

You're welcome, and thanks.

here(Eternalstudents link)
Will have a look at that in a min. I really need some help with recipes! And meal planning.

eternalstudent - is the slummy mummy site yours? it is wonderful. I lovce it.

It is, thanks. I was considering deleting it in a moment of self doubt but I'll stick at it a bit longer!

Nooooo don't delete it!
Stick at it definately

Pizza.
Depends how much time you have.
You can buy the dough mix to start with and then experiment with making your own wholemeal dough mix.

cook some veg, no portions as i guess. I generally fry a small red onion with one chopped red pepper or whatever veg I have to hand. Liquidise it with tomato puree. Make sure it is not too sloppy, quiet a thick consistency is needed. vegetables disguised for fussy children.

Get them to add other toppings that you know they will like, ham cheese, mushrooms etc.
Generally cook at 180 for 30 mins but my cooker is a bit dodgey. I think this is relatively healthy.

I also bought a waffle maker, as occasionally we have a waffle party. the children like the novelty of them and you can make them sweet or savoury

oooh love the idea of disquising veg in the sauce! Sounds a great idea.