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I'm needing to lose weight and for me summer is the best time b/c I don't mind eating less b/c of the heat. Just wondering what your family loves to eat for dinners/lunches during the summer. The lunch part mainly b/c the kiddos will be home and sandwiches get BORING after a while. Dinner b/c I'd love to have cheap but filling and light recipes to turn to for these hot months ahead.
However, if you don't like curry you could just use shredded (or diced) chicken breast, some celery, some red onion or scallion, red grapes OR pineapple, lots of black pepper, and some light mayo and I usually add a bit of mustard for the dressing. Serve atop salad, with crackers, or in a wrap
i know you said you are watching your weight, but we eat cold rice giardiniera
its rice with a jar of giardiniera mixed in (pickled veggies), we add hard boiled eggs, corn, maybe some tuna. my dh loves this.
I make a pasta salad with baby shrimp, macaroni, cucumber and mayo. s & p and whatever else you like. I add a little dried minced onion. I make a big bowl of it and the family munches on it for a few days
I make grilled bay scallops and shrimp wrapped in pancetta or smoked bacon over baby green salad or yellow rice.
Chicken breasts (boneless) seasoned with Tony Chachere's spice n' herbs seasoning for blackening (walmart) on the grill, tossed in spinach or baby green salad with tomatoes, red onions, black and green olives, tomatoes, garlic, marinated artichokes, evoo and fresh lemon juice. Delicious
I make a chicken pasta salad recipe with TONS of veggies that we can munch on for 3 days.
It's from the 365 ways to cook pasta cookbook (great book) but I add more veggies to make it healthier/lower-carb. The dressing is what makes it - it calls for half mayo and half yogurt blitzed in the food processor with fresh basil, garlic, salt/pepper, and I think red wine vinegar, but I make it with only drained yogurt and it doesn't taste low fat at all. It's almost like ranch dressing, it's sooo yummy. It's good for dipping carrots in too.
Toss it all together with pea pods or snap peas, carrots, celery, red onion, whatever veggies you like and I am a happy camper!
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