The first Wednesday of the month is always a themed edition of Works for Me Wednesday. This month’s theme is the backwards theme, which means that we can ask a question instead of saying what works for us.
Eric and I are both trying to eat better now, as well as adding exercise in everyday. But, we’d love some great ideas (especially for lunch and dinner) for some great tasting, lower calorie options other than salad and water. (Oh, okay. You can add salad — maybe give us a great idea for a fabulous salad.) If you don’t have one really great recipe, you could also share information about a particularly great cookbook.
Thanks — I can’t wait to hear some ideas!
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I love Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes! I'm not doing WW, but I've found tons of delicious, easy-to-prepare, low-fat recipes there that my whole family enjoys. You've gotta try the baked zucchini sticks. Even my two non-zucchini-eaters love them.
I am doing 52 NEW recipes for 2010 and some of them are low fat some not so much so. http://paperglueetc.wordpress.com/ I have a page 52 New Recipes in 2010, http://www.weightwatchers.com has a lot also, I'm going to watch these responses I think we can all use a few of these.
Stir fry and pastas are my standby. My current fave is sauted chicken breast, onion, and bell pepper over whole grain pasta (I use soba noodles and they cook a lot quicker too!) mixed with a little mustard. Or do the same thing over rice with a little Soy Vey.
Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook. I lost about 30 lbs on WW, but am no longer doing it. It has helped me maintain for sure though. I still use the cookbooks all the time. I cook out of the one listed above quite a bit and have REALLY enjoyed the food. My husband really likes the food too. It doesn't taste "diety". There have been a couple that I wouldn't use again, but most are really good.
I don't have a specific recipe to suggest, but I can highly recommend the website allrecipes.com. They have categories you can choose from (like "Healthly Recipes") and you can do an ingredient search, which is so cool.
They also have nutritional analysis for most recipes, and people frequently comment on what they did or didn't like about the recipe, and what they changed about it. (Always read the comments!!)
I really like Spark People and their recipes. They have a ton of them!
http://www.sparkrecipes.com/
My husband and I really enjoy this recipe for caramelized onion lasagna. It is very adaptable, and I often add different veggies and use low fat cheese. Enjoy!
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/caramelized_onion_lasagna.html