light lunch

I'm a huge fan of homemade salsa.  There's nothing like authentic salsa you get at a Mexican restaurant.  Although it's not exact, our salsa on the 'Lite Lunch' menu today is close. To make your own salsa you'll need tomatoes.  Roma seem to work the best but you can use any ripe tomato...

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.  So forget the chocolate and flowers today for Valentine's Day.  What man wants those things anyway.  Go with tasty chicken fingers for dinner tonight.  It's what's on the 'Lite Lunch' menu. And if you use this recipe I found on Pinterest, you can cut a bunch of fat, so they'll be good for you too.  But you don't have to tell him that. Read

We eat a lot of red potatoes at our house, but they can get old after awhile.  That is until I found this recipe on Pinterest, to spice it up a bit.  Its quick, easy and low on calories. Plus the red skin on the potatoes is good for you.  So ranch roasted red potatoes are what we'll have on the 'Lite Lunch' menu today.

Eating healthy isn't easy.  Not only to find food that's good for you, but food that tastes good too.  Salmon is healthy but sometimes can taste to fishy for my liking.  It's all in how you cook it.  I found this interesting recipe for honey pecan glazed salmon on my new favorite website Pinterest.  So that's what we'll put on the 'Lite Lunch' menu today.

While surfing Pinterest, a great new website, I discovered this recipe for gluten free no bake cheesecake from Ez Pudewa.  Cheesecake that is healthier AND you don't have to bake, has to be good right!?

Football isn't football without chili.  But at our house we have chili with a twist.  Chocolate chili is what's on the 'Lite Lunch' today since we had lots of leftovers. Super Bowl Sunday is one time we cheat on healthy cooking because there is nothing healthy about my chocolate chili.  Maybe that's why it tastes so good.

Scallops are a very healthy option for dinner if you're a seafood fan. Coquille St. Jacques is what we had for dinner and the leftovers are on the 'Light Lunch' menu today.

Steak is a rare commodity at our house. We usually have chicken or turkey burgers, since they are easy and inexpensive. But sirloin was on sale at the grocery store so, Pepper Steak is on the 'Light Lunch' menu today.

My husband is a cheeseburger fanatic.  He'd eat them every night if he could.  But cheeseburgers are so unhealthy.  Instead it's turkey burgers on the 'Light Lunch' menu today.

We eat a lot of stir fry in our house.  It's not only good for you, but it's easy to make.  Since broccoli was on sale the last time I went grocery shopping, chicken and broccoli stir fry made it to the 'Light Lunch' menu.

How many times have you forgotten to get something out of the freezer for dinner? Chicken Quesadilla's are on the 'Light Lunch' menu today because they are easy for those times you didn't plan ahead.

Lets face it, we're all busy and don't have much time left in the day to make dinner. Sometimes it so much easier to stop on the way home to pick up fast food for dinner.  Or throw a frozen pizza into the over.  A pizza that contains 2000 calories.  2000!  Surely there is a healthier and less expensive option.