Friday, August 22, 2025

All Dinner Meals for Meal-Planning

 Dinners List so I can have it all in one place. These shall become links when I actually write the recipes down.

Basic Principle is have a   Protein + Vegetable + Carb, so that I can keep my prediabetes in check, by controlling how much I eat of each. 

Hacks for making the Carbs less crashy---

  1. Twice cooked carbs 
    1. Instantpot precooked potatoes [8 min, 1 cup water] that get fried in butter/beef fat. 
    2. Pre-cooked rice heated up again, or fried in a risotto or stir fry
  2. Cauliflower risottos that are very very good. [shredded in the food processor, cooked in olive oil/butter, then add in butter/cream cheese/spices. It's actually even better than rice risotto IMHO]
  3. Eating my curries & sauces over Green Beans instead of rice with EXTRA tomato chutney [fresh salsa]

Remember, salads can become cabbage salads, or be swapped out with hot cooked (from frozen) vegetables if you make it further from the grocery shopping date.

Chicken Breast

  • Basil Lime Chicken Breast [Oven or Grill] + 
  • "Factor Meal" Sour Cream Salsa Chicken Breasts + Cauliflower Risotto + Green Beans
  • Fajita Chicken + Onions & Bell Peppers
  • Tikka Masala Chicken + Green Beans + Fresh Salsa
  • Orange Chicken [Gen Tso's Chicken]
      

  Chicken bone-in

          Bone in chicken [cheap in the 10 pound frozen bags]
  • Chicken Enchilada casserole + Fresh Salsa + Salad + Sour Cream
  • Crockpot Shredded Chicken Tacos with Black Beans and Cheese + Salad + Fresh Salsa
  • BIR curry Chicken + Lentils + Fresh Salsa + Green Beans + Indian Cauliflower Risotto
  • Bone Broth Chicken Soup
  • Oven Roasted [or Grill] "Turkish" chicken + Stovetop Brocolli + Rice// Cauliflower Risotto
  • ?Barbecue Chicken [frozen leg quarters, 5-7 hrs in barbecue sauce, slowcooker]
  • ?Barbacoa Chicken OR Taco Chicken [frozen leg quarters, 5-7 hrs in barbecue sauce, slowcooker]

Beef 

  • Marinated Stovetop Steaks [or Grilled Steaks] + Loaded Potatoes + Green Beans + Bell Peppers
  • Hobbit Stew
  • Meuk-Guk
  • Russian Beef Soup
  • Instant-Pot Pulled Beef [Barbacoa or Barbecue] [because of our sweet little Ana] + Bell Peppers + Dinner Rolls
  • Philly Cheese steaks
  • Mary Ann's Beef & Lentils
  • Steak Fajitas w/ bell peppers and onions

Ground Beef 

  • InstantPot Fauxsagnia
  • Tacos + Fresh Salsa
  • Smashburgers
  • ?Sherri's White Bean Chili + Salad
  • Grilled Burgers from Samsclub [when we have a gas grill...]

Lentils/Beans [so easy to mealprep]

  • Favorite Indian Lentil Recipe + Raita + Fresh Salsa + [Pomegranates, and Dark Chocolate, and Tea]
  • Whole Spices Indian Curry
  • Nut Curry
  • BIR green curry [get the right name]
  • BIR Beef + Lentils, Vindaloo Curry
  • Prep a big batch of refried beans and freeze for Taco Tuesdays
  • Falafel & Hummus + Cilantro Raita + Fresh Tomatoes & Salad + Flatbread

Fish

  • Canned Sardines/Mackerel with "Factor Meal" sauce [Sour Cream Fresh Salsa Sauce] and capers...so good
  • Canned Sardines with Salsa Verde [tomatillos n onions] and Sour cream (do not overcook tomatillos)
  • Tilapia Fillets + Butter-Fried precooked potatoes + Green Beans/Brocolli
  • Tuna Fish sandwiches or chip-dip [made with Ninja blender-egg-may replacement], and chips

Cheese/Eggs 

  • Instantpot Mac n Cheese + Peas +
  • Fettecini Alfredo + [Meat Roast/Ham] + Cauliflower Mushroom Rissotto + Green Beans
  • Grilled Cheese Sandwiches + Tomato Soup +
  • Cheesy Taters [Ye Olde Standby] FANCY if its in the toaster oven
  • Bibimbap + Korean Spinach + Kongnamul +

    Pork 

Only really if our sweet little Ana changes her mind....
  • Barbecue Pulled Pork + Rolls + Green Beans [Make some barbecue chicken for Ana]
  • Korean Style [Bulkogi style marinade] Pork + Rice + Kongnamul & Korean Spinach [make some 
  • Sundry delicious looking Pork-Chop Recipes, yet untried

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