Healthy meal and snack ideas/recipes?

I need tasty, healthy meal recupes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and also ideas/recipes for healthy, tasty snacks.


I NEED variety. I can't stand just plain salad or just plain fruits.





Website links would be appreciated if you have good onesHealthy meal and snack ideas/recipes?
SJ-SC-CA Incredible Chicken Salad





3 cups chicken breast (cooked and cubed)


1 cup pineapple (diced)


1/2 cup celery (diced)


1/2 cup mayonnaise


1/4 cup raisins


1/4 cup walnuts


1/8 cup dried cranberries


2 Tablespoons sweet onion (minced)


2 Tablespoons apple juice





Combine all ingredients in a bowl until well combined and chill. Serve with a lettuce garnish.





***You can use the chicken salad as a sandwich filling.***Healthy meal and snack ideas/recipes?
Go to your healthfood store and find raw cacao powder (the same as cocoa powder just more nutritional value) and raw cacao nibs (those are raw cocoa bean pieces - they don't taste like the sweetened chocolate because they are chocolate at its raw state.... they are very bitter if you're not used to them)...





Place in a blender:


- Cacao Powder


- Cacao Nibs


- Almond Milk


- Sweetener (like Equal or Stevia, etc.)


- 1/2 Banana


- 2 teaspoons of flaxseed


- Ice





Blend.... and you will have the most chocolatey intense, rich and creamy smoothie... It's perfect for a snack because cacao is high in protein, plus the flaxseeds provide a healthy fat as well as the banana a carbohydrate.... so you have a perfectly balanced snack that is high in protein and very nutritious since cacao is packed with antioxidants (more so than red wine). The cacao nibs lose their bitter flavor and take on a chocolate-chip-like quality where all you taste is the chocolate and sweetness like a chocolate, chocolate chip shake.





Berry Smoothie


- Frozen strawberries


- Frozen Raspberries (or Blackberries)


- Frozen Blueberries


- Orange peeled and sectioned (it's o.k. to put the seeds and white membrane of the orange in there... if you have a good blender you won't even taste it... it adds fiber)


- 2 tablespoons of dried goji berries (optional - this is a super food/health food that is packed with antioxidants and is a natural way of getting human growth hormone safely - do some research online on goji berries)


- Acai powder or concentrate (the concentrate is cheaper and lasts longer... though the powder is the best - this is another superfood and you should do some research on it)


- Green tea (I just like to open up the bag and dump all the leaves in there.... though I'm not so sure if that's safe for everyone - if you're pregnant don't take green tea)


- Filtered or Spring Water (you decide how much for the desired consistency)





Place in blender and blend until smooth. (I get my frozen berries at Trader Joes store for $2 - $3 a bag)








You can try turkey burgers on whole wheat buns with sweet potato fries (just cut swt pttos toss with olive oil, salt, pepper and bake at 400 degrees until golden)





Turkey chili is good with baked potatoe


or Chicken chili with black beans (basically the same ingredients for chili just use chicken that's been cooked in stock and pulled apart before adding to chili - I make my chili ahead and store in freezer for the week then warm it up and eat with side salad)





Turkey meat loaf is good (just take ground turkey, diced onion, celery, carrot, salt, pepper, bread crumb, eggs, mix and mold into rectangle shape on a shallow baking pan, cover with ketchup then bake till done) Serve with oven fries or mashed potatoes and carmelized veggies (like onion, carrots, celery all largely chopped, tossed with oil, salt, pepper, rosemary and baked till golden and carmelized)








salmon cakes:





- Canned Salmon, about 2 or 3 cans (you can drain the liquid, take the skin off and leave the bones in, just crush them with a fork, they disintegrate - plus they add loads of calcium... you don't notice them cause they disappear when you do that - or you can take them out if you'd like but no need to)


- Carmelized onions (dice onions, cook on low heat in pan with a teaspoon of olive oil until carmelized and brown... cooking them faster and on a high heat will only burn them and won't allow their natural sugars to come out)


- Diced tomatoes


- Bread Crumbs


- Extra Virgin Olive Oil


- Salt


- Pepper





Place salmon from can into a large mixing bowl, carmelize the diced onions (follow carmelization techniques above). When onions are carmelized turn the heat from low to medium high and add the diced tomatoes until sauteed. Turn off heat and add bread crumbs to the pan.... add olive oil, enough to make the mixture moist (about two to three tablespoons - you'll be cooking a big batch so don't worry), mix well until mixture is easily moldable when pressed between fingers.... Set the breadcrumb mixture aside until cool... When mixture is cool add to salmon with a little salt and pepper to taste.... Form into small to medium cakes then place in a skillet over medium heat with a little olive oil until outside is slightly browned.... Freeze then take out and warm in oven... I serve these with an egg white omelet with onions, sauteed tomatoes and fresh avocado on top of omelet, fresh spinach on the side, and whole grain toast with olive oil, lemon juice on spinach and salmon cake.





My favorite omelet:





Scramble two egg whites, add chopped/shredded fresh and raw spinach (cleaned and drained), diced onion, diced tomatoe... Mix all ingredients together... place in heated pan (bring pan to heat then placed on low to medium heat), greased (with either oil, butter, or cooking spray), let set a little then add swiss cheese in the middle (cut into shreds for easier melting) and fold egg whites over and let melt... (don't overcook) then serve with sauteed tomatoes on top (which you can do separately - just dice tomatoes and add to a heated pan with a little olive oil, slat %26amp; pepper %26amp; marjorim - optional - and you're done) and whole grain toast with olive oil.





For a variation on this you can add salmon (either freshly cooked or canned - skinned and cleaned) flake into pieces then add to raw eggwhites with all the same other ingredients (except for the raw onions.... you want to make those carmalized onions instead to add sweetness - you'll have to cook those ahead of time on a really low heat with olive oil to get good carmelization and not burnt onions) and follow the same steps with the cheese...





I don't like the salmon one all that much though...








Falafels are also delicious (lookup recipes on google). The chickpea balls or chickpea burgers can be stored in freezer and reheated for quick use.





A good website is http://caloriecount.about.com/


(great forums/message boards where you can find a lot of information, tips, and recipes - it's all free)