Last night we had salmon with green beans and broccoli. No carbs or starches. No one complained. Everyone ate everything. What other meals are there that you can get away with just a protein and a veggie?
Last night we had salmon with green beans and broccoli. No carbs or starches. No one complained. Everyone ate everything. What other meals are there that you can get away with just a protein and a veggie?
pear / 1737 posts
I make a fake chicken breast and slice it on top of a spinach salad with sliced almonds, crumbled feta, grated carrots, and berries or grapes with balsamic glaze as a dressing. My toddler isn't old enough for salad yet, but hopefully she'll like it when she's older! It's quite filling so I just make it a huge plate for each of us for our dinner.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
As long as I serve two veggies or a veg and a salad, no one misses the carbs!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@Mamaof2: @Mrs. Goose: we have a hard time with salad. I always have great intentions of doing salad and then forget we have it and then it's bad in like 2 days. Ugh. I may try that sometime, though if we have nothing in the house and need a quick fix - maybe a rotisserie chicken
@FaithFertility: we might be able to make this one work. I like fun meals and this is a fun one!
nectarine / 2085 posts
@mediagirl: Do you have a Trader Joe's nearby? They have a bagged salad that you dump into a bowl and add dressing and maybe tomatoes and avocados. I too have a hard time "remembering" (well, let's be honest, it's just laziness...) to wash the lettuce and rip it up for salads, so I think the bags are awesome. The only catch is that you pretty much have to use them within a day or maybe two. Day three bagged salad is sad salad. If you don't have TJ's, our regular supermarket has some decent options like that too. I wouldn't use the ones with premade salad dressing, but even excluding those, there are options in the lettuce case.
Anyhow, as to the question, I do a lot of lentils, beans, or eggs and salad or veg side.
pear / 1586 posts
I made this last night (with a few modifications, like only one type of squash and chicken thighs instead of breasts) and DH raved about it. http://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/maple-mustard-roasted-chicken-squash-brussels-sprouts
I am usually one to miss carbs and I didn't at all!
pomelo / 5524 posts
Rotisserie chicken definitely goes a long way! You can pair it with all different sorts of veggies and throw it in a zoodle bowl or have cauliflower rice and another veggie.
honeydew / 7283 posts
Just jumping on @FaithFertility: 's idea - these lettuce wraps are a huge hit in my house. I quadruple it (crazy) and freeze half of the "filling" part for next time. It's kind of salty so I go a little easy on the hoisin and soy sauces and skip the sriracha because we're wimps
http://damndelicious.net/2014/05/30/pf-changs-chicken-lettuce-wraps/
nectarine / 2813 posts
I like doing ham omelettes with peppers and onions. Easy and you get protein & some veggies!
grapefruit / 4085 posts
I have turkey meatballs with a sweet and sour sauce in the crockpot now with some carrots. Going to pair it with zucchini either roasted or spiralized.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Same as @looch:. I pretty much only ever make a meat and two veggies. I regularly make green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, Lima beans, salad, spaghetti squash.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
My fave meals are bunless burgers, chicken with roasted zucchini and summer squash, and meaty pasta sauce over spaghetti squash! And you could always do stir-fry and just skip the rice or noodles.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
A couple more ideas, spaghetti squash is nice with a meaty tomato sauce.
My mom makes lasagna using sliced zucchini instead of sheets of pasta. She omits the béchamel/ricotta component, but it would be equally good with it. I had it for lunch today, as a matter of fact and I didn't miss the pasta at all.
I also like sweet potatoes instead of regular white potatoes, is that an option, if you want to do a baked potato?
Also eggs, you can do a crustless quiche or frittata and that's very hearty.
pomelo / 5258 posts
Roast chicken with roasted veggies is common at our house. As are lamb chops and veggies.
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@MrsF: that looks so good! I added it to my list for this week thank you!!
pomegranate / 3045 posts
We often do just meat + veg here. Pork chops, carnitas chile verde, pot roast, roast chicken, chicken tikka masala, and salmon cakes are some of the common meats we do. We often do large pot meals and have leftover meat for a few days (the chile verde, etc.). For vegetables, I generally just do broccoli raab, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sautéed spinach, kale, or chard, some kind of salad, beets or sweet potatoes.
The salmon cake recipe I use is this one, if you want it:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/quick-easy-salmon-cakes/
nectarine / 2987 posts
We do a lot of meat plus veg here too. When I'm wishing for a carb but don't really want one we roast baby bella mushrooms with a dab of cheese in the middle and have that too. So like sauteed green beans and pork chops and mushrooms. Or roasted chicken thighs and cauliflower and mushrooms.
nectarine / 2964 posts
@mediagirl: May I ask why are you cutting all carbs for your family? I wish I could just serve a protein and a veggie because that's what I eat, but I always have to make an extra carb for DS and DH! I always thought kids need, what, 8 servings of carbs a day to grow or something. Is there something I don't know?
Otherwise, everyday will be so easy for me if I can just make a protein and a veggie! Protein: Pork chops, roast chicken thighs, chicken wings, steak, salmon, roast shrimp with broccoli; veggies is any steamed veggie like green beans, broccoli; or roast asparagus. We do always do a salad though in that case. It will get easy if you get into a habit! I only buy those "triple-washed" salad boxes, and I add nuts, cheese, and apples to it and there's your salad!
PS: Another veggie idea - does your family eat zucchini spirals or sweet potato spirals noodles? They are basically pre-cut "noodles" from zucchini and other root veggies. That's what I eat when we do a noodle main dish for a meal. I just have to cook separate for myself when they eat regular noodles. My family won't eat them but yours might
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@irene: were not cutting carbs. Sometimes it's nice not to have to worry about a carb for dinner.
nectarine / 2466 posts
I like spaghetti squash boats. Either a lasagna style, or an alfredo ( shred some chicken, dump in a container of alfredo, add in some steamed brocolli and then bake it with or without cheese on top ) or I also really like this buffalo chicken one
http://peasandcrayons.com/2016/02/cheesy-buffalo-chicken-spaghetti-squash-recipe.html
here's a lasagna one
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-lasagnastuffed-spaghetti-squash-recipes-from-the-kitchn-208523
Not the season, but we also enjoy salad rolls with a bbq chicken on the side
http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2015/04/07/homemade-fresh-summer-rolls-with-easy-peanut-dipping-sauce/
We really like this burrito bowl and leftovers save really well
http://www.katrina-runs.com/whole-30-day-20-pass-the-cheese
This tex mex casserole is also yummy and the leftovers are really good too
http://popularpaleo.com/paleo-tex-mex-casserole/
We also love lettuce wraps too!
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
I'm currently obsessed with sheet pan dinners, mostly because it means I only have one to clean up. You can do it with pretty much any meat and veggie. I know you said no starches, so this won't work exactly but you could just sub in another veggie. We do sliced up sausage (we get either chicken apple sausage or italian sausage), green beans, and potatoes (again, sub in whatever) with italian seasonings and and olive oil. It's so good and our kids always eat it the green beans and sausage (they don't like potatoes).
papaya / 10560 posts
@Mrs. Blue: I hope you read Damn Delicious! She has quite a few sheet pan dinners! I'm a fan of "sheet panning" too, ha ha.
pomegranate / 3045 posts
@Mrs. Blue: @matador84: I love this idea!! I tend to roast our veggies on a sheet pan anyway, so it makes much more sense to do the meat at the same time Off to go search for more recipes.
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