Any Suggestions...

Laura - posted on 07/12/2009

Hi Jessica!
If you make a list of favorite foods you enjoy together, you can then look for healthy-fied versions online. Many recipes strive to replicate the taste of unhealthy recipes without the unwanted fat/sugar/calories. Also, as previously suggested, different 'ways' of cooking can make a meal healthier, plus the addition of lots of vegetables-whatever ones you enjoy eating, can help fill up the tummy, and add fiber and nutrients.
I think that looking at different cuts of meat, and then finding recipes for them might be fun, such as pork loin, and there are tons of recipes for chicken breast, minus the goop.
Here is one of my favorite recipes-it has few ingredients but tastes fantastic:
"The" Soupfrom the kitchen of: lo250_lo


Makes: 10 cups Servings

description
Easy pantry soup-so good.

ingredients
2 t oil
1 T minced garlic
6 c water
28 oz. can stewed tomatoes
4 cubes chicken boullion
1/2 t sage
1 t thyme
1 c small pasta
10 oz. frozen spinach
15 oz. white kidney beans
grated parmesan cheese


directions
In a 3-4 qt. pot, heat garlic in oil until aromatic. Add water, tomatoes, chicken cubes, sage, and thyme. Bring to boil, stir in pasta and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add spinach, cook, 5-7 minutes longer until pasta is tender. Stir in rinsed beans, heat 1 minute. serve with parmesan cheese and biscuit gems.

And you have to have these with it!! (they're not very good by themselves, but amazing in the soup!):
description
Light, delicious, best in soup.

ingredients
2 c flour
1 c butter, room temp
1 c sour cream
1/2 c lightly toasted seseme seeds
1 T paprika
non-stick spray

directions
Preheat oven to 425.

Mix in bowl flour and softened butter with a fork until barely blended. Add sour cream, seseme seeds, and paprika, mix lightly.
Spray baking sheets or mini muffin tins with spray. Drop dough by teaspoonfuls onto pan. Bake until brown around the edges, about 10 min.

Good luck!
Laura

Vikki - posted on 07/12/2009

There are lots of good, healthy recipes on about.com. Search for low-fat cooking.



I second what Kimber said - what he doesn't know, won't hurt him. Modify recipes he does like: use light margarine, replace oil with cooking spray, etc.



Good luck!

Kimber - posted on 07/11/2009

If your boyfriend wants junk food, then give it to him. You can always make the food more healthy. I never fry things anymore. I bake my frenchfries, chicken, pork, almost anything you can fry. The trick is to get your baking pan coated with healthy oil. My husband never knows if I baked it (because the coating makes it crisp), or fried! If men don't know how its made, they tend to eat it! You can find great coating recipes out there for baking only purposes, just look on the net. You can spice any vegi, and meat to taste just like fat fried! My husband is not a goup eater either! LOL He happens to call it slop on a plate. You can steam food as well. As long as its not tasteless and dry, believe me your man will eat it. I think its the sauce that freaks them out (chicken surprise! surprise, its not chicken!) LOL