Fast and healthy meals for the whole family

Looking for the perfect meal for your toddler? Join the club. As a healthy mom, I think I eat pretty well. I watch my fat intake, make healthy selections when we’re at restaurants, at home I watch portions and have a lifestyle and habits that tend to migrate towards the healthy… and now that I have babies I want to make sure that they have the absolute best start in life by eating good foods from day one. I breastfed my first son and now nurse my eight week old, I made my own baby food so that my son would be allowed the freshest of ingredients. Now that he’s graduated to ‘real-people’ food, I want to continue in that vein.

What I’d like to see is a repository for healthy and easy dishes for families. I don’t want to have to make different meals for my babies than for my husband and me. But it seems hard to come up with regular healthy meals that don’t feel like I’m repeating myself all the time. Here are a few of the meals that we eat pretty regularly… as well as some web sites with relatively extensive healthy meal suggestions… enjoy.

Breakfast:

• Scrambled egg whites with one or more of the following: sautéed scallions, peppers, spinach, reduced fat cheese, Canadian bacon
• Breakfast burritos (we use low carb whole wheat tortillas) with some egg form (i.e. like what’s mentioned above)
• French toast (w/ low carb bread)
• Whole wheat waffles, Boca sausage
• Of course, we also always offer fruit of some sort (pineapple, orange, apple, kiwi, grapes, etc.) and usually offer yogurt (don’t you love ‘yo-baby’?). Check out Stonyfield’s recipe site for a pretty comprehensive list of recipes for everything from breads to desserts, breakfasts to main dishes and smoothies. (All of which mysteriously include yogurt as an ingredient) ;-)

Lunch / Dinner:

• Sautéed or grilled veggies (broccoli, orange/red peppers, onions)
• sautéed spinach w/ garlic and onions
• Boca burgers - whose recipe site lets you browse recipes by product (i.e. Boca burger, Boca sausage, etc. or by meal … breakfast, snacks and lunch/dinner)
• Grilled meat (salmon, steak, pork chops, etc.)
• Mexican lasagna - this meal is really good – and you can find several good recipes on the main site, Meal Makeover Moms.com as well as order their book, The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers which claims to 'tackle what’s wrong with today’s all-American diet and offers realistic and delicious ways to improve it.'
• Black beans
• The old standby… grilled cheese on whole wheat (add avocado or tomato for a twist)

If you’re looking for someone to do the planning work for you, you may want to check out the six o’clock scramble site. Aviva Goldfarb has created a web site that includes easy dinner recipes for busy families. If you subscribe to her site, you receive five ‘flavorful and healthy dinner recipes with side dish suggestions’ emailed to you each week, easy to prepare dinners in 30 minutes or less most with fewer than 10 ingredients, along with an organized grocery list. For $5 a month, this may be the answer for you…

Happy healthy eating!

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