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| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 2:32:24 PM
My normally "eats like a bird" daughter turns into complete chow hound during volleyball season. Last year she ate like a horse and still lost 5 pounds. That was with eating after practice, dinner and mid-evening leftovers. Anyone with boys can probably relate.
She's gotten board with my recipes that fill her up. So I'm turning to my farmgurl friends for new suggestions. She likes casseroles or stews that I can make ahead and she can heat up after practice and before I get home.
Something with veggies and meat would really appeal to her.
Thanks Ladies
Jenn
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| StarMeadow |
Posted - Aug 26 2008 : 02:56:48 AM
Hey if it gets worse, LMK. My brother (the chef) has a ton of recipes that call for ingredients that come in #10 cans, cases, and stuff like that! LOL |
| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 8:48:07 PM
Thanks all.
I can already see my Sunday shopping wont last long and certainly not until the end of the week . She's only been home 2.5 hours and already consumed 1/2 pound of carrots, 2 granola bars, fruit leather, and that was before dinner (pork chops, beans, corn, sliced peaches and bananas). Later it was more fruit leather and leftover spag. Don't know where she puts it.
She and I are kinda making a list of dishes she likes with lots of veggies that don't take a long time to make. I'm adding StarMeadows to the list. |
| StarMeadow |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 7:04:05 PM
Oh...and this is one of my favorite rice casseroles from when I was a kid.
3 slices bacon, cut small
1 med onion, diced
1 green pepper, diced
1 can beef consume'
1 can water
1 cup long grain rice
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
Fry up bacon with pepper/onion/rice till browned.
Put in casserole dish.
Add consume'/water/worcestershire to rice mixture.
Bake covered at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
Of course now that I'm older...I use a lot more bacon (yummo as Rachel Ray would say) and a lot more worcestershire. I eat this stuff cold too. My kids don't like it because of the cooked onion/green pepper...but when I eat it...takes me back. |
| StarMeadow |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 6:56:43 PM
Here's my friend's Aztec Lasagna For A Crowd. This recipe makes a TON...
2-3 lbs ground beef
1 onion, chopped
2 jars salsa (1 hot/1 mild)
1 pkg taco seasoning
1 10ct flour tortilla shells
2 c cottage cheese
2 eggs
4 c grated mozzerella cheese
4 c grated cheddar cheese
Brown beef w/onion, drain.
Mix in taco seasoning/salsa
Layer in ungreased lasagna pan (2) tortillas, 1/2 the cheese, tortillas.
Mix cottage chesse/eggs, cover tortillas.
Layer on rest of cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
You can also do this in just a pie plate w/wo the meat by using canned black/pinto/refried beans that are seasoned and by adjusting your portions. Or maybe you'd like to use enchilada sauce instead of the salsa. I like to use black soy beans/mixed with pintos. Or sometimes I spread the tortillas with refried beans then layer stuff up. You get the idea. |
| susanreno |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 6:54:49 PM
How about a nice, towering lasagna?!?! One with a meat sauce, but with veggies mixed in also. The recipe in our house uses a meat sauce with beef, sausage, carrots, onions, lots of herbs and a bit of hot pepper. Then the cheese mixture has cooked spinach and parsley mixed into it. It's a great make-ahead food too. Let me know if you want more details for the recipe. |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 6:35:23 PM
If she likes beans, they are a good, filling item and loaded with much needed protein for the active teen. I raised 3 boys and an extremely active daughter. I couldn't afford all the meat it took to fill the boys up (they were only spread 4 years apart) and dd didn't really like meat. Minestrone soup or potato soup with navy or great northern beans worked well (Bear Creek Soup mix plus the beans). Bean and cheese burritos, baked beans with hamburgs or hotdogs. I have a taco dip that we often have just for dinner in front of Monday Night Football. Very filling. Stuffed porkchops, chicken fried steak with 5 bean salad. Fried potatoes, onions, peppers, cheese of choice, slow cooked pinto beans with bacon all rolled up in warm tortillas is also really filling. Meat filled whole wheat pitas for lunch with fresh spinach (iron is very important for teen girls). Oatmeal for breakfast or better yet, hot amaranth or quinoa (loaded with protein) and Cream of Wheat is loaded with iron. I mix chopped apples or peaches and chopped walnuts in the cereal for a little more substance. Cold cereals are a waste. She should not eat them at all as she will get little or nothing from them. Snacks like cheese or meats rolled up with a cheese stick inside. Grapes, cucumbers sliced up, cut up broccoli/cauliflower, carrots, snow peas with a dip can be filling snacks, too. Hmmm, if I think of anything else, I'll let you know. If you need specific recipes, let me know and I'll post them here for you. They are all pretty simple (I am far from a gourmet chef!)
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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My Website:
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| Bellepepper |
Posted - Aug 25 2008 : 2:42:07 PM
StarMeadow has a suggestion, Mac and cheese. She just posted that she was looking for a recipe. Would be good left over too. |
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