Healthy Dinner List

Over the past few years I have made it a personal goal of mine to find healthier meals to feed my family. I am looking for nutritionally sound recipes that have minimal processed food, natural ingredients (fresh veggies/fruit/raw ruts, lots of whole grains) and as many meatless meals I can find. I am not vegetarian, but simply trying to cut back to only eating meat 1 or 2 times a week and when we eat meat, I'd like to stick to the leanest/low fat content meats like chicken, lean ground turkey, and lean steak. Incorporating more fish (a great source of protein and really good for you) into our meals is also something I am working on.

 I have recently put together a list of my family's favorite recipes of what we have tried so far. By popular request, I will try to start posting the recipe each time I make a healthy meal. My goal for 2012 is to find 30 healthy recipes so that I have a whole months worth of verity in healthy meals to make for my family. If you come accross a healthy meal that your family likes, please feel free to share it here!!!

Here is the list I have so far, as I post them I will rate each one a rating of A or B, "A" being what I consider Very Healthy,  the "B" is when it has a few ingredients that I do not considered healthy, but overall it is a big step up from processed foods like boxed, frozen or canned dinners and much better than eating out....right??

So here is the list so far...lets continue to build it! 

1. Grilled Lemon pepper Salmon, Corn on cob, cantaloupe 
2. Cauliflower Soup and wheat rolls 
3. Stuffed Peppers with brown rice and lean ground turkey, Strawberry Spinach Salad
4. Chicken and fresh veggie stir fry with brown rice
5. Chicken Lettuce Wraps and Soy Beans
6. Vegetable Minestrone Soup with wheat rolls
7. Shrimp and black bean quinoa (Tiffani's Recipe)
8. Stuffed Capped Mushrooms filled with chopped Veggies and TVP ( (Tammi's Recipe) , grilled Zucchini on the side 
9. Black Bean Veggie patties and grilled Pineapple
10. Tropical Spinach Salad with grilled chicken
11. Shrimp and Tofu Miso soup
12. Pumpkin and quinoa soup
13. Black Bean and Butternut Squash Tacos (Tammi's Recipe)
14. Tortellini and Spinach Soup, Wheat rolls
15. Southwest Black bean chicken soup

16. Tilapia and Fresh green beans cooked in cranberries ( the only way I like green beans)
17. Spaghetti squash spaghetti with asparagus on the side

18. Grilled King Crab, grilled in husks corn on the cob, grilled pineapple 
19. Chicken Apple Spinach Salad with yogurt dressing (Tiffani's Recipe)
20. Grilled Game meat (Deer/Elk) or lean steak, fruit Salad, Grilled Veggies
21.  Elk/Deer chili, Quinoa corn bread muffins 
22. Potato broccoli soup, whole wheat honey challah bread
23.  Honey Crockpot Chicken and rice


New recipes I want to try:
24. Butternut squash/cauliflower leek soup, wheat breadsticks
25. Spinach and sun-dried tomato pasta with asparagus