OFFICIAL Recipes/Meals Thread

[ottsville]

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tuna / hotsauce. tuna w/ mayo. tuna w/ mayo and a few saltine crackers.

i'll add some more when i sober up.

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Anyone have other quick/easy tuna recipes? I'm a semi-busto college student, so it would be nice to eat tuna once or twice a day since it's the cheapest protein that I know of, but I can't stand the taste. I'm not a fan of mayo, but I'll try the hot sauce some time. Hopefully half a bottle of Tapatio will cover up the taste/smell somewhat. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Mix tuna with Italian or your favorite salad dressing. You can also mix in some veggies or wrap it in lettuce leaves for variety. Melt cheese over it on an english muffin. Mix tuna with some small pasta(orzo or couscous) goat cheese or feta, olives, garlic, onion, olive oil, lemon juice, etc. This also works well with shrimp or chicken.

[ottsville]

There's been some decent recipe threads on here before; you might want to check out the archives.

For me the key has always been having things prepared that are easy to grab and go or are quick to heat and eat. I love to cook, but trying to put together 5 meals a day doesn't work unless at least three of them are things that I can quickly grab and eat. Since I don't like powders and lots of processed stuff, this requires some planning. What I found that helps:

-pre-cook, freeze and package individual portions of proteins and anything else that freezes well and reheats easily
-keep lots of fruits and vegetables on hand
-learn to make a couple of quick salad dressings - oils,acidics , and seasoning can be mixed in endless varieties
-hard boil a couple of eggs one day and throw them in the fridge. They are a quick snack, and you can whip up a quick sandwich or throw them in a salad for some protein
-keep shredded cheese on hand
-try something new regularly. A new ingredient, a new recipe, etc. A little variety keeps things interesting and you may stumble across something you really like.

I used to go to a health food store in Philly that made the best salads. They would toss several ingredients into these hand-cranked food processors that would chop the stuff up. The juices would come out of the veggies and you didn't need any dressing. You can do the same thing in a food processor. I always liked carrots,red cabbage, broccoli, celery, and sunflower seeds in mine.

And thanks for your service.

[HighandDry]

I've never been a fan of tuna until recently.

I buy the all white meat Albacore tuna. Usually Starkist brand. It's good both warm and cold.

Mix in a couple tablespoons of fat free mayo, dice up some celery, and spread on crackers.

Something I like at anytime of the day is 3 egg whites, and 1 egg yolk, scrambled with cheese, turkey, diced tomatoes, black olives wrapped in a flour tortilla.

[kinda]

Tuna w/ ranch dressing is also good even though it sounds gross.

[MasterCye]

Beef Stroganoff
1.Fry up 600g of Extra Lean ground beef with about 1/2 an onion.
2.Add can of Mushroom Soup w/ 1/2 can of water and let simmer until fairly thick
3.Add 1 cup of low-fat sour cream. The sour cream really makes this quit thin so you want to have the mixture fairly thick before you add the sour cream.
4.Scoop onto some egg noodles and add a veggie

this makes 6 meals of about 500 cals w/ 34g of protein

[MasterCye]

Homemade Protein bar

1 1/2 cup Peanut butter
4 tbsp Honey
2 tbsp Olive Oil
6 scoops of Protein Powder
2 cups Oats

1. Heat PB, Honey and Olive oil in saucepan over low heat, be careful not to overheat.
2. When mixture is all runny mix in Protein Powder one scoop at a time. After all the protein powder is mixed in you should have something with the consistency of cookie dough. 3. Move it to a mixing bowl and add the oats.
4. Mix the oats into the mixture with your bare hands.
5. Put it into a brownie pan and press into place.
6. Refrigerate until hard.

I cut this into 12 pieces for nutritional info of:
379 cals
20g fat
22g protein
4g fibre

This is a great quick on the go snack, I usually eat it with a couple of pieces of fruit. There is a bit more fat in this than you might want but it's almost all mono- or poly-unsaturated, less than .5g of sat fat per bar.

Credit for the basic recipe is from a thread on Wannabebigforums.com, I changed it slightly.

[JaBlue]

plain yogurt, add fruits/berries/nuts as you see fit.