I would love some new ideas for cold, easy to prep dinners. My nausea is so much better but the smell of food cooking can still really turn my stomach. Plus, we don't have AC in our kitchen/dining area, so cold food is just more appealing at this time of year. What are your favorites?
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Hummus, pita, falafel and Greek chopped salad is what we had tonight. You can make or buy all of those depending on time and what your nausea allows!
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Similar idea I made these last week. We ate two portions one night and two another night. http://www.cookinglight.com/recipes/15-minute-chicken-shawarma-bowls
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I also ate this cold for lunch for like a week. I used Farro as the base and topped with sriracha. https://www.budgetbytes.com/2014/12/pineapple-black-bean-salad/
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@periwinklebee: Caprese or panzanella salads!! Yum!!
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I make this often. We do black beans instead of chicken, but I'm sure it's good with the chicken too!
http://sweetpeasandsaffron.com/2016/04/chicken-fajita-lunch-bowls.html
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Chickpea salad sandwiches.
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Cold noodle salads.
Soba noodles tossed with soy sauce and sesame oil and some sliced cucumbers with a squeeze of lime is easy. Add some shredded roast chicken and red bell pepper if desired.
I also like angel hair tossed with julienned crunchy veg like sprouts, snow peas, carrots and bell peppers, cold shrimp (I just thaw frozen), and a dressing made of sweet and hot mustard, oil, and a little water to thin. A little rice vinegar if it needs acid.
Pioneer Woman has an Asian noodle salad on her site that makes a ton but it's really good.
Not quite cold but I lived on avocado toast with a fried egg on top for a lot of my last pregnancy. The key is salt and a lot of lemon juice on the toast, chili flakes, and then a slightly soft yolk.
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These are awesome suggestions! Going grocery shopping tomorrow, and really excited to have some better meals.
@bhbee: I want to eat at your house.
(And as an unrelated aside, I hope your daughter had a good first day at kinder!)@wrkbrk: Yum!
@jhd: This looks awesome - thank you for the link!
@littlejoy: I've never seen chickpea salad before, sounds delicious.
@gingerbebe: I was so glad to see you respond because I always love your meal idea posts!
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I've been making a ton of quinoa and chopping up whatever veg I have and making a big salad for the week. This week it was romaine, tomatoes, cucumber, corn, and avocado, seasoned just with lemon (but you could easily add whatever salad dressing you want).
Last week it was Mexican themed and I cooked the quinoa with some salsa and tomatoes, and I made the salad with black beans, pico de gallo, cilantro, and salsa (all on romaine).
We've also been doing vegetable wraps with hummus, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, and grilled squash and/or eggplant.
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Smitten Kitchen's Nancy's Chopped Salad!
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@JerricaBenton: Yum!
@newlypregnantlady: Weirdly enough I have an allergy to quinoa (I know, most random thing ever to be allergic to). But I feel like these sorts of salads would work well instead with rice or lentils, etc... Thank you!
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If you don't want to do any cooking at all, I like a salad with green leaf lettuce, red onion, chopped tomato, deli turkey which I'm just now realizing if you're pregnant you might not be comfortable eating, and shaved curls of parmesan with a balsamic dressing.
If you don't mind doing a bit of advanced prep right now I'm obsessed with a salad made with 1 cup of cooked orzo, a pint of grape tomatoes halved, about half a cucumber chopped, some toasted pine nuts, the zest and juice of a lemon, and some olive oil and salt.
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@gingerbebe: Love pioneer woman and you just inspired dinner for one night this week. and I also just ordered a cold soba noodle salad for lunch because it sounds so good.
@periwinklebee: thanks for starting this thread, I'm also partial to cold things right now as I'm still in the first trimester. I'm eating almost exclusively salads, or, on the other end of the spectrum mashed potatoes and gravy is weirdly appealing to me.
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One of my favorite easy salads is:
- Romaine lettuce
- Shaved pieces of Parrano cheese
- A firm apple like Braeburn or Pink Lady or Honeycrisp
- Toasted walnuts
- Croutons
- A vinaigrette made from Dijon mustard, olive oil, red wine vinegar, healthy pinch of salt and pepper, and a tiny bit of sugar to take the edge off the vinegar.It hits all the right spots and its soooo yummy.
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Ceviche
GazpachoWould grilled food be okay for you, since maybe DH could do it and keep the cooking smells outside?
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RE: quinoa allergy
I do a couscous salad that's dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper, and lots of smoked paprika. I add in chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, chopped rotisserie chicken, chickpeas, lots of feta, scallions, parsley, and MINT. Its sorta like a Greek salad, its sorta like tabbouleh, its sorta like fattoush - its delicious. You can eat it over salad greens, stuffed in a pita, alone, scoop it with pita chips or endive leaves, whatever.
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@periwinklebee: my kids love cold chicken so we grill a big patch of grilled chicken breasts on Sunday and then they eat it cold throughout the week with rice and whatever veggies we have on hand, or with a mini tortilla shell, shredded cheese and avocado. Possibilities are endless.
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@periwinklebee: I don't have much to add in for meals (lots of great ideas already given) but i feel your pain with the quinoa allergy! I like to use coarse bulgur, red bulgur, and farro in its place.
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@periwinklebee: The chickpea salad is like chicken or tuna salad - just with chickpeas instead. We love it!!
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@erinbaderin: Orzo salad sounds delicious, I've also been eating a green salad for lunch, love the idea of shaved parmesan.
@SweetiePie: You're doing so much better than me first tri - I had some fruits but don't think I managed to eat a vegetable for two months - definitely need to make up for it now
I hope the nausea subsides soon!@gingerbebe: This sounds delicious - I really need to get more adventurous with salad dressings, so tired of my usual go to's... And the couscous salad sounds awesome, I definitely find during pregnancy that I need more carbs than I normally would, couscous seems like a healthy way to get them.
@PawPrints: I so wish we had a grill (we live in the city, I really miss having a backyard).
@Madison43: Good idea!
@Freckles: I've never met someone else with a quinoa allergy before, glad to know I'm not alone... it's insane how much it is on everything at restaurants around here. There's even a Korean (Korean!) restaurant near our house that replaced everything that has rice in it with quinoa.
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@periwinklebee: Believe me I have some days where all I eat is toast! And I can't stomach water so I'm drinking lots of iced tea and lemonade, aka caffeine and sugar. But for some reason around lunch the cold crunchiness of a salad is appealing to me. I haven't eaten meat more than maybe 3 times in 1.5 months! That's the other reason I think I might crave salads - I'm not getting much iron because I'm not eating meat, so the kale and leafy greens are appealing.
Anyway, hope to be to my normal piggy self soon Hope you are too!
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Meat & cheese board with pita bread and fruit!
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Or poke bowls!
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@SweetiePie: Hah hah, I need a kale craving - this kid lately just makes me want to eat cookies and brownies
I hope the nausea subsides for you soon!@snowjewelz: Yum!
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@gingerbebe: Last night I made the couscous salad recipe that you posted, paired with the pita and falafel @bhbee: suggested. So, so yum!
(And as an unrelated aside, I hope your daughter had a good first day at kinder!)
I hope the nausea subsides soon!Reply
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