Needing inspiration.......

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I am totally stuck on planning meals! I'm fed up of eating the same old thing, and want some inspiration - can anyone help??

I've recently taken up running, and I do want to lose weight, however, don't want to go on a "diet". So I'm looking for evening meals to accomodate both - oh, and also that don't cost the earth! I don't want much do I??

So - what are everyone's favourite healthy evening meals?

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Bitsy_Beans

Why not take a wander to the Old Style board - there are recipe indexes there which might give you some inspiration for meals perhaps?

Personally my biggest issue tends to be portion control rather than what I am actually cooking. I am such a greedy mare

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Thanks Bitsy Beans - I had a look a week or so ago, but I couldn't find anything on actual meal ideas - I'm sure I was just looking in the wrong place though (***Runs off to go look again***)

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Oh - and yeah, portion control is generally an issue for me too! I figure if I can least make sure that what I'm eating is healthy though, that's half the battle!

clairibel

Hiya,

I find if i eat brown rice, pasta and bread i don't tend to eat as much and feel full for a lot longer, takes a bit of getting used to but my son has been brought up on brown stuff and he hates white pasta and rice

If you already do this then my fave meal is a homemade tomato sauce with plenty of garlic make a massive batch and freeze in batches, then defrost and chuck in whatever i feel like that evening, so maybe add green pepper and chilli seasoning with rice and meat if you eat it...i don't but hubbie and kid do.

Or one night chuck in butter beans, basil, oregano, veg and chicken and have with pasta.

Thats one of my easy but healthy tea's.

Soups also but i tend to make them more in colder weather.

fluffykins13

I really like good to know recipes (you'll find it on Google) -it and BBC Good Food lets you search for meals between 200 and 400 or low fat or other dietary requirements

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Thanks fluffykins I didn't know you could select the number of calories on those sites - I'll defo give that a go!

Claribel I like the idea of the frozen tomato sauce too - such an easy thing to do, and obviously a lot healthier/cheaper than buying jars of sauces - which I try never to do! I think I'll need to buy a mountain of tupperware dishes though!

Bitsybeans - I went back and had another look at the oldstyle board - managed to find quite a few recipes that have seen us through the last week or so! They're all aimed at either weightwatchers or slimming world etc which I'm not doing, but from looking at what's actually going in to them I'd say they're still pretty healthy meals!

Thanks all for the suggestions!

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jenniewb

Not sure if there is a free version but as my mum is a weightwatcher she tells me all about her website stuff and apparently on the weightwatchers site you can put in whatever foods you have left in your cupboard and it comes up with a meal suggestion for you. If you are a weightwatcher or know someone who is and has web acess with their pass, ask them. Am thinking though that there has got to be something like that for free elsewhere- (but don't know myself, sorry!)

marrowgirl

I find these meals quick and filling, while being ok healthy eating wise.
*Mushroom risotto. Using risotto rice you don't need to use fat & its nice and creamy.
*Spanish omlette/fritatta. You can add various veggies/lean meat/potatoes & onion to vary it.
*Pasta with HM tomato sauce. I use brown pasta as it seems to fill me up more.
(in my meat eating days) *sausage & bean one pot caserole.

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