Looking to feed my kids more fiber, multigrains and protein. Does anyone have any dinner suggestions. Or, better yet what are you ladies cooking for dinner tonight? :8}
You may want to check the Recipe forum for some great ideas. The more you cook from scratch, the better. Cut out the "white stuff": white flour, white sugar, make sure 1/2 of your plate at every meal contains fruits and vegetables, and you will be on the right track. Don't overdo the protein. Atkins is a fad, not a healthy lifestyle. It preaches consuming WAY too much protein than anyone needs, and now everyone thinks we all need to eat too much of it. Carbs are necessary, especially for active kids, as long as they are complex, whole grains, not simple, white junk.
Tonight we are having venison steaks, broccoli (frozen from last year's garden), homemade sourdough rye bread (thanks to my dear friend), and red wine. Yum!!! It is one of my favorite meals!
Get yourself some good, simple, healthy cookbooks, make it a lifestyle change, and you will work wonders for yourself and for your kids.
What Diana Kay said about half the plate being vegies is how I'm trying to judge if it's a healthy meal. I figure one quarter to protein, one quarter to complex carbohydrate (brown rice, whole grain pasta, millet, etc) and half the plate in vegies and fruit. If I only have one vegie, I start cutting up pears, oranges or any fruit we have in the house.
This works until you get into one dish meals. :|
Trudy
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Well, what I (ahem) will be cooking for dinner looks to be corn chowder w/ frozen corn, probably some beans for a complete protein, a little salt pork for flavor, potatoes, seasonings, one percent milk, and then I'll rummage through the fridge to see what's left over. AHA! Broccoli! Gotcha! And carrots!
It's from an old Betty Crocker cookbook my mom gave me after college to help insure my survival. :^O
Vegetables seemed tricky to me when I first started cooking, and although I eat meat too, I did want to learn great ways to prepare vegetables.
One of my favorite vegetarian cookbook authors is Mollie Katzen who did the Moosewood cookbook, and the Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook. She incorporates sauces, whole grains and vegetables in delicious ways. Amazon has used copies. But she's been in print for probably more than 20 years, so you can flip through a copy of it at your local bookstore to see if it looks good.
