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Posted 7/14/2013 8:21 PM (GMT 0)
My parents eat really unhealthy, like eating wendys twice a week and the rest of the week frozen nuggets so I've decided to start cooking supper myself because this isn't helping my colon at all since I was almost in remission and now I'm back to square one. The only problem is I don't know what to cook, preferably something easy to make. No cheese please, other than that I'll take any suggestions as long as it isn't too greasy.
Posted 7/14/2013 9:28 PM (GMT 0)
I made this yesterday:

paleomg.com/ginger-carrot-soup/

Very few ingredients and quite quick and tasted great.
Posted 7/14/2013 9:45 PM (GMT 0)
Salmon, brown rice with lemon, spinach.
Chicken breast, wild rice, carrots with ginger.
Ham, sweet potato, asparagus.
Spaghetti and salad.
Chef's salad (no cheese).
'Loaded' baked potato.
Stir fry - you can get pre cut veggies in a lot of markets now.
Posted 7/15/2013 12:00 AM (GMT 0)
everyone loves my tuna noodle casserole & its super easy.
boil some noodles - you can use whatever kind you like, use brown rice noodles if you have problems with gluten.
strain them & in a glass casserole dish mix them with 1 can of tuna (or salmon) & 1 can of mushroom soup. then grate some cheddar or marble cheese on top (you can use goat's cheese or that weird soy cheese stuff if you have issues with normal dairy). then cook it in the oven at 350 celsius for about 45 mins or until the cheese is melted.

i also tried this mexican ground beef quinoa skillet a couple of weeks ago & it was AWESOME - made lots of leftovers that i was able to take for lunches & really easy to cook up. i pretty much threw in any veggies that were about to go bad in my fridge. ground bison would work good for this one too.
http://www.food.com/recipe/mexican-ground-beef-quinoa-skillet-419596
Posted 7/15/2013 12:32 AM (GMT 0)
Easiest recipes are typically in the crockpot. Id go to the library and get a crockpot cook book out or go to this fun website.

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/?m=1

Im not sure what your diet limtations are so i didnt recommend certain foods.
Posted 7/15/2013 4:32 AM (GMT 0)
I don't really have any diet limitations, I haven't been able to pinpoint specific foods other than things like fast food and beans.
Posted 7/15/2013 7:33 PM (GMT 0)
Easy=buy a prebaked chicken (found in my deli section) add a cooked veggie and you are done. You can buy veggies ready to microwave in the frozen food section. Serve to your parents too, show them how to make healthy meals.

There are dozens of ways you can change up cooked chicken for dinner: chicken tacos, chicken wraps with cooked veggies, chicken and rice and veggies, chicken salad with apples, celery and walnuts, shredded chicken on top of a green salad (chef's salad).

When you have just the bones left you can put them in a slow cooker+water and make chicken broth which becomes chicken soup pretty easily.

All of these recipes can be switched from chicken to another meat.

The deli section is also an easy place to get sliced beef, ham, etc to make a sandwich if you have no wheat/gluten problems (as you say). Nothing easier.

I'm making lemon chicken on stove-top tonight, very, very easy. I buy thin sliced chicken breast when it's on sale and it takes less than 10 minutes to make sauteed chicken with wine and lemon. I actually skip the lemon for mine since my gut dislikes citrus and just add it at the end for my husband who loves lemon. Veggie will be green beans (5 min) or yellow squash (10 min) or spinach (3 min).

I love food but not spending hours in the kitchen.
Posted 7/15/2013 9:26 PM (GMT 0)
When you're just learning how to cook minute rice is so easy. If you can tolerate white rice. If you need brown rice, Uncle Ben's fast cook brown rice is easy as well, you cook the rice in a pot of water just like you would macaroni or other pasta, drain and add butter or a little olive oil, sea salt and that's a tasty side dish.

Stouffer's makes good individual meals or you could bake a pot pie in a toaster oven, adding the rice I mentioned above, possibly salad if you can tolerate it or cottage cheese, also frozen vegetables are very easy to make in the microwave.

I gave my daughter a very simple, basic cookbook when she went off to college. It did contain recipes but it mainly was a book describing how to boil water - literally, and when reading recipes what a term means, etc. She loves that book and referred to it quite a bit. I'll try and search online for it. It was simply the most straight forward, simple instructional book for someone who wants to learn how to cook.

I'm almost certain this is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Boil-Water-Food-Network-Kitchens/dp/0696226863/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373923759&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+boil+water+cookbook

Post Edited (Marsky) : 7/15/2013 3:31:49 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/15/2013 9:43 PM (GMT 0)
Soups are good always. Also spaghetti and with pasta sauce, add a bit of chicken in there, verdure, and good to go.
Posted 7/15/2013 11:29 PM (GMT 0)
Brown rice sounds like a good idea... rice is good because it's easy to make and tastes good with anything. I've never had brown rice before though so I'll try it. Lemon chicken sounds like a good idea too, I really like Asian food.
Posted 7/16/2013 1:10 AM (GMT 0)
I usually make a lot of rice. I make about 2 cups brown mixed with 1 cup white cooked. I actually cook the brown rice first with all of the water for 20 min...then add the white for 20 more. Not stirring.

During the week I can add chicken on top of the rice with soy sauce, or beef. Or you can just have the rice with vegetables.

Of course the easiest, quickest dinners are frozen food, or going out to fast food places, but please don't do that! That's probably what got us all sick in the first place. UH OH...I'm probably going to hell in a hand basket for saying that!! rolleyes
Posted 7/16/2013 2:33 AM (GMT 0)
No, no, no, I know that fast food is what pulled me out of my almost remission in the first place. I thought it would be okay and ate A & W last week on Wednesday, I haven't been feeling well since.
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