MOK79

Hi All

Ok I need to come up with a load of healthy family meals that I can cook for the tribe
Basically me and the better half have decided we need to get healthy, and I piped up and said "we need to eat much better" , as she does the majority of cooking she took it to heart and said "well you cook from now on"

I actually enjoy cooking , but i always end up cooking chinese although I must say its reassonably healthy.

So please recommend me guys and gals

Ethel

BBC Food pages have a great archive: BBC - Food You can search by ingredients so you can get all the healthy stuff covered, and it includes recipes by all the famous chefs if you want to be really impressive.

You could try planning your menu a week in advance to cut out the 'what on earth am I going to cook?' feeling when you get home from work, and make sure you're eating healthily, rather than whatever comes to hand, but when I did that I ended up spending a fair bit more on the weekly food shop and we seemed to spend every other day eating ice cream, albeit home-made ice cream (I may just be rubbish at planning though).

Chinese cooking is indeed healthy, how about getting a decent cook book (we have one by Ken Hom, can't remember the name) and working through it?

From experience, if you pick recipes from websites, buy yourself a notebook and, when you find a recipe you like, print it out and stick it in there. Saves you having to faff around searching it again and gives you a handy stock of favourite recipes for when you have to cook something at short notice.

cookie sti

My kids prefer it when i do the cooking. i always do things like pork chops with cheesey mash and fresh veg. for so long cooking scared me but now im into it i find that it is easy and i also have time to be on S/N inbetween cooking items while the wifes at work in the evenings

ScoobyWon't

Cooking is easy.

There are loads of resources out there such as BBC Good Food and Good Food on tv, both of which have websites ful of info.

mikef04

iTrader: (7)

sainsburys feed a familt for a fiver, some of the meals are ok and some are much better. my favourite is hot cros buns sliced in half. spread marmalade over, lay in a tin and cover with vanilla custard cook in oven for about 10 mins.

The Zohan

google rosemary connelly - she does some great stuff, the cottage pie is real tasty!

With all these tings use good lean meat and not too much oil or fat

FlightMan

Don't change what you eat, just eat less of it. If you get hungry between meals, eat an apple or something with low calories.

The weight will come off.

Steve vRS

But a bag of crisps kicks an apple into touch...

Trout

iTrader: (1)

Cook fish instead of meat - much healthier.

Eat plenty of fresh vegetables.

Usual health common sense *



*As I type this I am ploughing through a tub of Ben & Jerry's!

dunx

iTrader: (3)

Hypocrite !



dunx - is currently drinking cider.....

P.S. Is that cannibalism for you ?