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Amy Wolff

Amy Wolff

Amy Wolff
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I'm in a rut and need a change. It wouldn't hurt if it was easy and healthy. Have any new recipes or meal ideas you'd like to share?
 
We love quinoa in the summer time. It is a great salad base and you can pretty much throw anything into it and it tastes great. Here are a couple of my favorite quinoa recipes:
Quinoa salad with black beans and avocado
Crunchy Cashew Thai Quinoa Salad with Ginger Peanut Dressing
Slow Cooker Quinoa Chicken Chili
This is the recipe that got us started on Quinoa salads last summer--we roasted the tomatoes once, but for the most part just dice them and toss them in: Quinoa salad with roasted tomatoes
 
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Everything.
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LOL!

I haven't been eating well either, but it's mostly been due to money constraints. This next paycheck of DH's is going to be the first one in a good long while where I really feel like I can do an honest to goodness grocery shopping trip and not trying to just piecemeal together whatever is on sale and cheap. I'm planning on using recipes from the saving dinner menu mailer (I love her recipes and they are usually pretty easy to put together). I subscribed years ago and saved all the pdfs to my hard drive, but she has an online site now that you can do your own custom meal plans that I'm really seriously considering subscribing to at some point. I've already put together next weeks meal plan and I'm so excited to go grocery shopping next weekend (probably the only time I'll ever say that...lol).
 
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UGH! I need a change too! I've gained 20 lbs back from my weight watchers & don't want to go back!!!! I did discover quinoa too! YUM!!! Great texture!
 
I've been doing the low carb plan on emeals for family meals, but on the nights where it's just me... everything comes off the rails.
 
a green smoothie every morning. a salad chock-full of every fruit and veggie I can find in the evenings. if we eat noodles (kid-fave) then I mix it with steamed shredded carrots and steamed broccoli and then top it with nutritional yeast and olive oil. roasted chickpeas are also a big yum. baked sweet potatoes with black beans and salsa. sauteed veggies with quinoa. sweet potato and chickpea curry from the nomeat athelete. those are the easiest meals we eat. I do more, but they are def. NOT easy, though healthy. fave sites:

Oh She Glows
plant powered kitchen
Eating Well
 
Smoothie for breakfast - and a broccoli mushroom salad for a snack during the day. Try out this site - foodgawker.com - just in love with the site .... Will have you drooling on all pics of healthy options ( including non healthy ones unfortunately :) ) .... This site helps me a lot .... Has an app too ...
 
green smoothie and almonds for breakfast, salad for lunch and meat/veggies/fruit for dinner... and I usually snack on almonds
 
If you guys like quinoa... you gotta try this recipe. It's so yummy!

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Oh yum! I do feel better when I have a green smoothie in the morning. I have the stuff, but for some reason peanut butter toast and iced coffee sounds easier to make. I'm definitely going to try some of these quinoa recipes. Amber, I would hire you as a chef anytime. That's the way I would love to eat if my kids would go along with it.
 
bwa ha ha! never said my kids go with it. the boy HATES it!
 
Amy Wolff said:
Oh yum! I do feel better when I have a green smoothie in the morning. I have the stuff, but for some reason peanut butter toast and iced coffee sounds easier to make. I'm definitely going to try some of these quinoa recipes. Amber, I would hire you as a chef anytime. That's the way I would love to eat if my kids would go along with it.
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This is me. I'm TOO LAZY for life. I'd eat whatever appeared on my desk. I need a chef.
 
so the trick with green smoothies? you can totally freeze your greens. and your fruits. I usually make a double batch, so I am only mixing once every two days. frozen spinach and chard and dandelion greens and parsley in my fridge. I toss in broccoli (also frozen stems) and pumpkin seeds, along with a banana and whatever fresh or frozen fruit i have on hand. sometimes they look REALLY gross. brownish. but they taste fine.

Oh, and another trick: take last night's leftover salad (without dressing) and toss it into your blender! add a banana and some fruits and you've got a super-fast green smoothie.
 
Yep...best thing I ever did (and need to do again) is to freeze up individual smoothie baggies. I took quart size freezer bags and put one sliced banana, seasonal fruit, and greens to fill and stuck those bad boys in the freezer. Take out one in the morning and add juice or almond milk or water in the blender and you're good to go. I try to stay non-dairy for the allergic boy but if you like greek yogurt, you can freeze individual portions in muffin tins and throw a frozen disc of yogurt into your baggie as well.

I'm full of good ideas, just no motivation! LOL! I need to do a serious weekly prep on Sundays to get the fridge full of healthy food so I'm not waiting til the last minute and hungry and grabbing a cookie.
 
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I know what you mean. I just ran out of sunflower butter & hummus and the chocolate almond butter is also gone, don't have any soaked beans ready...nothin'. Tomorrow's gonna be one of those cook until your back aches kind of days. :P
 
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