Fast Food Recipes

• Wholegrain bread, spread with pesto, then topped with sliced tomato and mozzarella cheese. Bake or broil.
  
  
• Scramble two eggs and stir in some chevre and chopped green onions just before the eggs have totally set.
  
  
• Cut up tomatoes, green onions and cucumber and mix with cottage cheese and ground fresh pepper.
  
  
• Split a whole wheat pita and do an openfaced sandwich on it. I put sliced salad onions and green peppers on the thin slices of pita, then cheese, and I bake or broil it.
  
  
• Dress leftover steamed veggies with salad dressing, and add some canned beans.
  
  
• Heat a can of black beans, adding some ground cumin, squeezed garlic and some hot red pepper flakes. Mash the beans until thickened and like a lumpy refried beans dish. Top with cheese, slide into the oven. Meanwhile, either heat some cooked rice or get out some whole wheat tortillas, or corn chips if you can eat them. Chop some dark green lettuce, tomatoes, and salad onion. Make haystacks or burritos, or just eat it all with rice in any configuration you like. You can add salsa and sour cream or plain yogurt, too. This is the meal my son and I eat most frequently together on the nights when his father is working late and doesn't have dinner with us.

• Tuna salad with dill, salmon salad with Patak's garlic relish, or egg salad with curry powder on ryvita or WASA or Ezekiel bread, with cut up celery, carrots and cucumbers on the side.
  
  
• Today, for lunch, I'm having tuna salad on ryvita, half a can of Progresso hearty black bean soup, and a salad made of a little of this and a little of that - basically just cut up what I had in the fridge and put some dressing on it.
  
  I do use a few canned soups, to supplement protein, and for cold days when I just want something warm (and it's cold and damp here today - I worked out just to get warm!

• I have a favorite that i use for a quick breakfast. I take a couple of brown rice cakes and top each one with a tbsp of natural peanut butter and a sliced strawberry (when in season) or a couple of slices of banana. Add a couple of hard-boiled eggs or string cheeses and presto an on-the-go breakfast. The good thing is that I can prepare it the night before, put in a brown bag, stow in the fridge and then grab-n-go the next morning.
  
  
• I also like taking a couple of slices of Ezekial bread, spraying one side of each slice with olive oil and then putting a slice of Provalone or Cheddar in between. Sometimes for a change I put a little yellow mustard on a slice and then the cheese or add some super thinly sliced onion to the cheese. Who doesn't like the old stand by of grilled cheese? Add a few veggies or some veggie soup or chili and viola - a yummy, easy lunch.

• 2 WW tortillas
• romaine salad mix
• fresh tomato
• 1 slice Swiss cheese
• tinned Mackerel
• lemon herb salad dressing (sugarless)

salsa (my health food store has some home made stuff that is fantastic) I usually eat it with Rye wasa crackers or whole wheat bread.

This recipe was contributed by Robin from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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Allison's Lunches

I have four basic lunches (I have access to a microwave at work):

• brown rice, greens (frozen collard or turnip greens, or spinach, thawed) and meat loaf
• brown rice, frozen thawed greens, and baked tofu, cut into cubes

Both those get heated up in the microwave.

• a big salad with raw zucchini and summer squash and lots of other veggies, and canned salmon
• a big salad with raw broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, other veggies, and tuna

I add cooked brown rice pasta to my salads as a brown.

These recipes were contributed by Allison from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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Bachelor Casserole

Ingredients:

• leftover chicken
• steamed broccoli, carrots, and other veggies (I've tried
• spinach, cauliflower, whatever)
• brown rice

Directions:

Combine chicken and steamed veggies in a skillet with some olive oil. Stir in brown rice. Top with grated cheese and put a cover on the skillet until it melts. Serve.

This recipe was contributed by Deb from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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Rice with Salsa and Beans

Boil 2 C water.

Add 2 C Minute brown rice, 1 can drained black beans and 1 C salsa.

Cover and simmer for 5 minutes.

This recipe was contributed by Pat from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

From Minute Brown Rice box.

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Baked Apples

I chunked up the apples, skin and all into a buttered baking pan. (Whatever size for however many apples you have.) Then I poured in a little bit of cider (I live in Michigan and it's apple season big time now) and sprinkled a little salt, a little vanilla, a little more cinnamon, drizzled some butterscotch flavoring on, sprinkled on some chopped pecans I had in the freezer and put a few pats of butter on the top. I baked it at 375 degrees fahrenehit for about a half-hour, but time would vary according to your apples; variety and size of chunks. Just watch it and determine how soft you want the fruit.

I poured a little oat milk on mine when I ate it....YUM!

This recipe was contributed by Chris B from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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Apple Sauce

Chop up a whole bunch of apples, leaving the skin on. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until they become sauce. Add pumpkin pie spice. Yum! It's like apple pie.

This recipe was contributed by Allison from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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Squash "Dessert"

Here's an idea for the holidays, for getting through dessert time. Cook up a buttercup or acorn squash. Add pumpkin pie spice and a little butter, and you have a PnP friendly dessert. You could even pour a little cream on to make it squash "a la mode" I find that squash tastes like a dessert to me now. And squash is very good for you, lots of vitamins..

This recipe was contributed by Allison from the Radiant Recovery Community Forum.

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