It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle adjustment. Inspire me with your healthy recipes?

[CBear6]

I'm stuck for some nice, relatively easy to make, recipes. I've been making my own bolognese sauce and I'm great at soups/stews/broths but I seem to be getting in a rut of the same dozen meals over and over.

Who wants to pass me a few healthy recipe ideas? It can be for anything at all, it doesn't have to be a full meal (snack ideas would be great too) and it can be for slowcooker, oven, grill, etc. Anything that would fit in with our new healthy eating lifestyle.

Trouble is I'm one of those picky choosy types and there are some foods I don't like.

I'm funny with fish. I had a big aversion to it when I was pregnant with DS and it's never really gone away. I like cod, river cobbler, smoked fish, prawns, and crabsticks but that's about the extent of it. DH and DS are both sensitive to salmon and will go all blotchy if they eat it.

I hate peppers. Red, yellow, green, orange. Just the smell knocks me off never mind the texture.

Uncooked cheese, cheese used in cooking is great but straight off the block is the devils work.

I like pretty much anything else and I am trying to broaden our tastes a little with ingredients we haven't used before or don't use often.

Thanks in advance :)

Pork risotto

small pack of pork mince, tin of tomatoes, garlic, quarter a pack of chopped cabbage and leak (or if you are not lazy like me chop your own) a grated carrot. a knorr pork stock cube 1/2 a cup of rice (this should serve 4)

Brown the mince, then chuck the rest of the ingredients in and simmer for about 50 mins. keep an eye on the water levels as the rice can dry it out.

I serve with grated cheese, but you could put the cheese in just before you serve so it melts?

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lamb stew

I cut up with meat scissors the lamb, go to the freezer and get a few handfuls out of a pack of finely chopped carrot,celery and onion (sainsburys) and then put in enough frozen stew veg (sainsburys or Tescos). put in some boiling water and a knorr lamb stock cube. Turn on the slow cooker and leave all day. Just before serving with mash I thicken it and add a dash of gravy browning. Takes literally 3 mins to make and is delish. Of course you could do your own fresh veg but I find frozen is always there when you fancy a stew and I really hate using a hack saw chopping swede)

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I've also started doing a roast mid week. not really that much of a faff, but always clean plates

I love quick and easy recipes. Here are some of mine;

Boil pasta, add green beans to last 2 minutes, drain, stir in pesto, add chopped cherry tomatoes

Partially boil some new potatoes, cut up an onion into wedges, a couple of courgettes and an aubergine into chunks, peel a few garlic cloves put them into. Put the veg into a bowl and add a couple of spoons of olive oil, salt and pepper, any herbs fresh or dried (tyme and organo work well)stir around. Put them in a tray with the pots and put some similarly seasoned chicken (breast or leg) on top. Roast in the oven on 200 for about 30-40 mins.

Chicken drumsticks - marinate with 2 tblsp soy sauce, tblsp of dijon mustard, honey and olive oil. Roast for 35-40 mins at 200 serve with potatoes cut into veg, put in a bow and mixed with a couple of spoons of olive oil. Put on tray with skin side down cooked for about 25mins

Fish - marinate in pesto or sweet chilli sauce. Bake in oven for 12-15 mins at 200. Serve with salad/new pots and veg/stir fried noodles or rice

Chicken or veg curries. Fry an onion in a little oil, add ginger and garlic, add a couple of healped tblsp of pataks mild curry paste, add either tomatoes, yoghurt or lf coconut milk then add your chicken or veg or both.

I've got an easy and healthy pasta one but it takes a while to cook...

Serves 2
Preheat oven to 150 degrees C
Chop 450g/1lb of cherry tomatoes in half and arrange, cut side up on a large baking tray.
Slice 3 garlic cloves into very thin slices and place these on top of the tomatoes.
Add a little sprinkling of salt and bake for 1 1/4 hours until dry but squashy.
Boil some pasta - spaghetti works well but you could use any.
Drain pasta and stir in tomatoes, a handful of fresh, torn basil leaves and some Extra-virgin olive oil if you'd like.
Sprinkle with finely grated Parmesan and serve.

It's delicious, easy and if you can find cherry tomatoes on sale in the supermarket, cheap too. It's also a good way of using up tomatoes that have gone past their best.

If you like prawns and smoked fish, you could do a Kedgeree too.

There are loads of different recipes but the one I use is from a family cookbook as I make it for us and the DC. Lots contain curry powder but this one doesn't.

Cook 300g Basmati rice following the packet instructions.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.
Loosely wrap 375g Smoked Haddock in foil and bake in the oven for 10mins on a baking tray. Once cooked and cool enough to handle, flake it into the cooked rice.
Heat some oil in a frying pans and saute 2 diced shallots for 3 minutes.
Add 200g of cooked and peeled prawns to the shallots and saute for 2 more minutes
Mix the shallots and prawns into the rice with a handful of finely chopped parsley.
Top with quartered hard boiled eggs (I do one each)
You can also serve this garnish with a little more parsley and with lemon wedges to squeeze over the top if you like. My children love it but it can get messy.

Similar to Hathall - Chop an aubergine, a courgette and a red onion into chunks, put on a baking tray with a drizzle of olive oil, a few cubes of chorizo, couple of chicken breasts and mixed herbs / peri peri rub / etc. Bake at 180 for 20-30 minutes, turning occasionally. Serve with couscous or rice.

Also Thai hot and sour soup is good if you like that sort of thing (and ridiculously low in calories). Boil up 500ml of veg or chicken stock, add in a dessertspoon of sugar, a chopped chili, a bashed stalk of lemongrass, half a squeezed lime and a dessertspoon of fish sauce. Bring to the boil them simmer gently, throw in a couple of handfuls of prawns or shredded chicken, same of sliced mushrooms and serve with a load of fresh coriander and more lime juice. Remember to keep checking the flavor as you cook. Somehow spicy food makes me feel like I've eaten lots, even if it's a few prawns and mushrooms in stock!

Oh, brilliant stuff! It's all been written in my 'house notebook' (sad, I know, but I'm a lax housewife so need to make notes), going to do the food shop tomorrow so I'll be trying these all :)