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Heston Blumenthal’s stocks are crazy gelatinous and flavourful. I always reduce the roast chicken stock for a great sauce, or use the beef as a base for bolognese
I used our recipe search engine to see if anything would come up and there were 2 recipes that could work:
https://spoonacular.com/cupcakes-with-reese's-pieces-no-chocolate
The Triple Peanut Butter Cupcakes seem fine as is. The other one uses peanut butter cups and devil's food cake mix, but you could probably use vanilla or another flavor cake mix, and you might be able to find white chocolate covered peanut butter cups or just leave those out.
hope one of those sounds good to you!
This recipe would use the rice, potatoes, and carrots in one attractive side dish: https://spoonacular.com/Autumn-Potato-Salad-Recipe-16981
I would probably add some protein, though, if you eat animal products. Perhaps some kind of meat or fish in a blackberry sauce: https://spoonacular.com/Grilled-Salmon-with-Blackberry-Cabernet-Coulis-1754 https://spoonacular.com/Cocoa-spiced-rubbed-pork-tenderloin-with-crimini-berry-sauce-588233
Interesting concept for a meal, enjoy :)
In this case I would just eat it plain with some nice toppings - cacao nibs, shredded coconut, berries...
I searched our site for popular recipes with yogurt and a lot of those kinds of yogurt parfaits came up, but so did this: https://spoonacular.com/Roasted-strawberry-coconut-yogurt-bread-588599 It would probably mask the yogurt too much, but maybe you could find a recipe for some kind of frosting with yogurt to drizzle over it too, cause damn that looks delicious.
I'm using spoonacular which also has a free meal planner and extensions for chrome, firefox, and safari so you can save and clip recipes from any recipe site.
You want the meal plan laid out in front of you which works quite nicely with their meal planner because it is very visual and you can easily rearrange meals. You also get nutrition insights which might be interesting to you since you seem to care about healthy food when you use Hello Fresh :)
This might not be exactly what you mean, but our recipe search engine lets you search for recipes with/without any ingredients. So you could search for "recipes with cabernet and chocolate", for example: https://spoonacular.com/recipes-with-cabernet-and-chocolate
Breakfast: protein pancakes with cottage cheese. Might sound gross, but they are actually delicious and really easy: https://spoonacular.com/Cocoa-Protein-Pancakes-157259 Lunch: I always do a big salad, I prefer meat for the protein but you could use beans. Add a hard-boiled egg and some cheese. Dinner: This is my recipe for fish cakes. I use herring but it would work with canned salmon, tuna, probably even sardines... https://spoonacular.com/Herring-Fish-Cakes-with-Fresh-Dill-149068
The only tin I have handy is one of "smalls" which lists TiO2 bold as brass in the list on the back. Maybe the normal ones do or don't, I'd be awfully surprised if they didn't with how unnaturally white they are.
All kinds of other crap you consume every day has it included as well. So if you want to bicker about flavors of Altoids just substitute pretty much any gum, toothpaste, powdered coffee creamer, powdered sugar (or anything with it on it, like store bought doughnuts), etc., etc., etc. Or mint Lifesavers, which also notice list it as an ingredient.
Bottom line: The amount of the stuff you would leech from a plastic bucket is minuscule compared to what you're most likely already shoveling down your gob on a daily basis without even thinking about it.
spoonacular is useful if you're trying to find a really specific recipe. For example: https://spoonacular.com/cookies-with-oats-and-chocolate-no-nuts-or-raisins
I use it a lot because I generally have an idea what I want to make, but I also have XYZ to use up in the fridge or I don't want to go out and buy chia seeds or something else I'll never use again.
spoonacular is another option, they have recipe saving extensions, but their meal planner has more functionality I find. It's especially useful if you want to know nutritional information for any recipe/track your daily calories, protein, sugar, vitamin D, whatever. You can also add products like Greek yogurt and protein bars to your meal plan, which I find useful since I don't really cook anything for breakfast.
The protein powder will be easiest to use up - you can stir it into yogurt, mix it in your cereal, etc. If it's sweetened someone even posted about using it instead of coffee creamer over on the fitness board. If you want to do some actual cooking/baking with it, I found a bunch of recipes using our search engine, for example: https://spoonacular.com/popular-cookies-with-protein-powder and https://spoonacular.com/popular-pancakes-with-protein-powder
Fries are not necessarily bad; we bake white potatoes and sweet potatoes into fries quite often - though of course, without deep frying they aren't quite the fries you know and love. BUT they make a good substitute for this getting-used-to-healthier-food phase. Otherwise I personally think all vegetables taste better roasted with plenty of salt and pepper since it brings out their sweetness, drizzle them with butter once they are done or before if you aren't roasting at very high temperatures. You can slow roast at 300 degrees or so if you have an hour - cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, carrots, parsnips...
If you really meant complete vegetarian dishes, then you could try stuffed sweet potatoes (e.g. with black beans and salsa), veggie burgers, all sorts of vegetable soups and stews (e.g. vegetarian chili).
Our site is undergoing some work today, but you can (normally) use it to search for recipes and set your profile to vegetarian to only see vegetarian results (https://spoonacular.com/). Good luck!
My typical food day/favorite meal set ups:
-Oatmeal with berries (whatever is in season/looks the best/is the cheapest, excluding bananas), poached eggs, and a little scramble of ground turkey breast, sauteed spinach, and bell peppers
-Smoothie with kosher beef collagen, kale, frozen berries, whole milk or Greek yogurt
-Grilled or broiled chicken, sweet potato, and a mix of steamed broccoli, radish, and sweet pepper
-Broiled white fish, spinach salad with carrots and tomatoes (dressing: tablespoon of olive oil, tablespoon of balsamic vinegar), small citrus (I like grapefruit, but if the acidity is too high in that, I also swap around with oranges and tangerines)
-Sirloin, tempeh, or oily fish (usually salmon), brown or white rice, mix of steamed asparagus, green beans, mushrooms, squash/zucchini
The last one has three different entrée options because I limit each one to a certain amount each week. What I do is pick a protein (eggs, chicken, fish, beef, tempeh,) at least two veggies (a green and at least one color, preferably two,) and then a carb (oatmeal, rice, sweet potato, or fruit.)
I keep fruit servings down to three a day, because I do find them beneficial, but if that's too much, you can always remove as needed. I tend to keep cooking simple, so I'm no master chef with recipes, but this is a recipe search engine that accounts for intolerances: https://spoonacular.com/
Also, Great Lakes is who I get kosher beef collagen from. They have gelatin as well, I go with the collagen because it can be mixed in cold smoothies. http://www.greatlakesgelatin.com/consumer/allergen.php
This fish recipe sounds really good to me, except I wouldn't use tilapia, perhaps cod (more omega-3's): https://spoonacular.com/Spicy-tilapia-with-coconut-cream-478293 and of course coconut oil instead of the vegetable oil. If you were thinking rather something sweet then I've been wanting to try this Paleo take on a Cherry Garcia milkshake: https://spoonacular.com/Cherry-Garcia-Paleo-Milkshake-with-DIY-Paleo-Magic-Hardshell-Chocoalte-576636
Shrimp: https://spoonacular.com/10-Minute-Shrimp-Curry-Recipe-6160 Chicken: https://spoonacular.com/Coconut-Curry-540886 Spinach-chickpea (vegetarian): https://spoonacular.com/Spinach---chickpea-curry-217425
I can't attest to the authenticity of these but I searched for easy curries, so the ingredient lists aren't too long and they can be thrown together pretty quickly.
Not an exact match for the maple syrup honey brown sugar molasses rice krispies log, but add 3 Tablespoons of Molasses to this recipe and you should be pretty close!
https://spoonacular.com/recipes/rice-krispie-treats-with-maple-syrup-and-brown-sugar-658259
I'll be honest. I'm not sure why you would go about using an API - it seems like overkill for what you want to do for this app, if the point of the project is to create your own, then using the API defeats that purpose, however if that isnt the purpose of this project, you can use this api - https://spoonacular.com/food-api
They even have a built in win recommendations, so this api does your project for you! best of luck!
Pardon the plug, but spoonacular works well for this purpose. If you type "easy recipes with chickpeas spinach and tomatoes" you get results without too many additional ingredients but all the ones you specified.
Our app is currently not in the Play store because we have a new version coming out within the next week or two.
The hardest part of this is gathering recipe information. Quick google search gives https://spoonacular.com/ which has an API so I will definitely look into it!
If the API is good, then I can create a way for Alexa to interface to it for sure.
There are a lot of protein cereals out now because protein is "in" right now - Special K, Cheerios, etc. I personally wouldn't eat these because they have too much sugar, especially when you consider how hard it is to eat just one serving of cereal :P That said, I recently read this post: https://spoonacular.com/blog/healthiest-breakfast-cereal
looks like Ezekiel and Uncle Sam have 7/8 grams of protein per serving, which is probably around 14/15 grams per 100 grams. Neither of those is sweetened.
I used our recipe search engine to find popular recipes with lemon curd (https://spoonacular.com/popular-recipes-with-lemon-curd) and I would say the lemon meringue angel cake would definitely qualify as challenging (fun I can't say, depends on how you feel about beating a ton of egg whites!) The lemon bar cheesecake, on the other hand, might be a nice twist on lemon bars.
Using the lemon curd as a topping for pancakes and a filling for crepes also sounds delicious, in case you don't use it up when you bake something.
Anyway, browsing popular recipes is usually my favorite way to decide how to use up an ingredient, I hope it helps you too :)
spoonacular is also a good free option - nutritional information for every recipe and an easy to use meal planner. However, the meal planner isn't mobile friendly, but I understand new apps are on the way.
I'll eat them in small quantities (for example, in my once-a-week after lifting protein bar), but something like a daily diet cola strikes me as an unnecessary risk. Diet soda is also associated with obesity, and though I do not fully understand if this comes down to the kind of self-sabotaging Gene_Trash mentioned or really something physiological, why take the chance? It's really just a crutch and the more you work on breaking your sugar/sweetness addiction, the better off you'll be in the long run.
It is admittedly not the easiest task, but try to eat fresh fruit or a small amount of dried fruit (this part takes some self control, it's easy to overeat dried fruit). Look at recipes for cookies sweetened with just mashed banana, such as these(disclaimer: my site), but count your calories and portion size accordingly. Dark chocolate is my favorite, but you have to be able to stop after just a couple squares. It took me forever to be able to have unfinished sweets in the house!
You might benefit from a recipe management site. On spoonacular I've created recipe boxes called "Weeknight Pasta Dishes", "Weeknight Chicken", etc. so I can collect a bunch of simple recipes I like to throw on my meal plan when I'm not feeling particularly inspired or I'm not in the mood to decide what to eat on Thursday when it's only Sunday.
I also find it helpful to keep the ingredients on hand for a few basic meals that I really like so that I can swap them in when what I've planned just isn't sounding good that evening. For example, I really like fish patties with canned fish, breadcrumbs, eggs, onion, and herbs/spices. I can always have those on hand without worrying about anything going to waste (assuming I reschedule what I've planned before THOSE ingredients go to waste.)
It's good to get some discipline, but you don't have to force it all the time either.
Pardon the plug, but you could sign up on our site and set your profile to dairy free and exclude onions/bell peppers (click "Settings"). Then as you use the recipe search engine you'll only get results without these foods.
Hope this helps!
If you really care about your health, I think your first order of business should be reevaluating your dislikes. I am guessing there is almost certainly a vegetable or two that, prepared properly, you'll enjoy. Brussels sprouts fried with bacon and onion? A couple cups of greens covered with enough meat, cheese, and nuts that you barely notice the vehicle of delivery? That's my go to lunch.
Otherwise I'd recommend eating eggs a couple times a week - it's economical, fast, high in protein, and surprisingly versatile. Omelets, frittatas, scrambled eggs, fried eggs on top of lots of things. Good for throwing in some mushrooms and bell pepper - I think even most veggie haters can tolerate those.
And of course there are way tastier animals than chicken. Pork chops, beef stew, chili... or just season your chicken! Buy some Indian spices and do curry-spiced chicken with garam masala rice. Or lemon, garlic, and rosemary chicken. Or cover it in smoked paprika... maybe poke around here a bit: https://spoonacular.com/healthy-chicken-breasts
good luck :)
I'm sure you have everything you'd need to make a simplified version of one of these recipes: https://spoonacular.com/easy-casserole-with-meatballs
Each recipe will have different instructions but I'd wager that you may need to brown the meatballs in a pan before adding them to the casserole dish, but most of the cooking will happen in the oven.
I use the batter from this pancake recipe to make waffles too. Toasting them in a second step is a good idea because these could use the extra crisping up. These aren't normal waffles, however, as you'll tell from the ingredient list. But they are great if you want something higher in protein. I make them every week and I've fed them to people who were unaware of what they were made of ;)
You can make them plain if you leave out the cocoa powder, maybe add a little sugar instead if you want them sweet on their own; I don't bother because I find the maple syrup is enough.
We made slow roasted cauliflower the other day and it was really delicious. We were baking chicken legs at 300 F for about an hour and fifteen minutes and just put the cut cauliflower on another baking sheet with salt and pepper and then sprayed it with one of those olive oil sprayers all over (nice little gadget that works better than I expected). Simple but good. Less healthy but also delicious is roasting cauliflower and putting breadcrumbs that have been toasted in butter in a skillet on top.
According to my SO, Brussels sprouts need bacon and onion.
Kale: https://spoonacular.com/popular+kale+recipe (I see at least one with butternut squash - two birds one stone.)
I've never figured out how to make eggplant turn out right - you're on your own there :P
I must admit I've never tried the recipes I'm about to share, but our search engine understands 'easy' to mean (among other things) 'without 100 obscure ingredients you'll never use again'. That said, I tried searching for easy recipes with truffle oil and think these look pretty damn delicious:
https://spoonacular.com/Prosciutto-Wrapped-Truffle-Fries-255877 https://spoonacular.com/Roasted-Green-Beans---Mushrooms-with-Walnuts-494991 https://spoonacular.com/black-truffle-reuben-sandwich-507112
These pancakes would be a nice still-somewhat-healthy splurge since the cottage cheese ups the protein content: https://spoonacular.com/Lemon-Cottage-Cheese-Pancakes-with-Strawberries-548080
Otherwise: https://spoonacular.com/healthy-breakfast-with-applesauce-and-almonds
Hope this helps :)
https://spoonacular.com/weekly-meal-planner
If you upload your own recipes you get estimated nutritional info but you can also add basic foods, like "1 banana 2 tablespoons of peanut butter."
hope this helps
I ran across this strange but intriguing recipe - banana ketchup: https://spoonacular.com/Spicy-Banana-Ketchup-82589 Perhaps make some burgers with that and season the meat with a little turmeric. Would work nicely with veggie burgers too if you're into that kind of thing ;)
I would definitely serve it as dessert because I personally would find a sweet side dish rather odd. That said, I would probably make dinner without any grain since otherwise they will probably be too full for dessert... For instance you could serve fresh salmon with a blackberry glaze (browse these: https://spoonacular.com/salmon-with-blackberries) and then use a few blackberries in the dessert to tie it all together. Or perhaps this interesting pork tenderloin recipe: https://spoonacular.com/Cocoa-spiced-rubbed-pork-tenderloin-with-crimini-berry-sauce-588233 For a side dish, figure out a nice way to serve some fresh steamed broccoli or pan fry some Brussels sprouts or so.
Anyhoo that's just where my brain went. Hope you get some other suggestions :)
It took me a long time to learn self control. Until you can leave an unfinished box of cookies in the house without eating more than you know you should, don't buy them. Seriously. Try to find healthy meals that don't make you feel like you are depriving yourself. This meal planner can help you calculate the day's nutritional information as you fill out your meals: https://spoonacular.com/weekly-meal-planner Perhaps having a meal plan will make it easier to stick to your guns when you know you should be having that spinach salad rather than the pizza. It takes time to make new habits stick, but it really gets easier. Good luck!
In addition to what has been suggested, beets and carrots come to mind, for example: https://spoonacular.com/muffins-with-beets or https://spoonacular.com/waffles-with-carrots
You could almost certainly tweak your usual recipes in this direction.
This sounds like a really good idea tbh.
You could use an API to get recipe ideas given the ingredients you have.
I did a quick Google search and found this:
https://spoonacular.com/food-api/docs#Search-Recipes-by-Ingredients
Let me explain what im supposed to do...
so basically this code is for the search function in spoonacular API
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The same API also has a search by ingredients function....
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Im not able to write the code for that part.
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I understand that most of the code will be the same however I am not getting a response.
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Could you help me with that part?
Some cozy winter meals we love that can also be frozen are
--vegetarian chili (served with cheese, avocado, salsa---one dish meal)
---lentil soup, served with sourdough toast
---we've also been having fun with cheese boards, and Trader Joe's has some awesome prices on cheese, bread, wine, etc.
---Tamara's Ratatouille is another one I would try
Probably depends on which muscles you want to flex more - design, frontend or backend.
Using camera to detect size of biceps seems like a very big task to achieve something that actually works in the end. Lots of computer vision stuff, and even the match-making part would require user authentication, databases and more.
So for example if you wanted to work more on design and frontend, you could pick an idea where you can allocate more time for that. Like "ask the user their favorite color, animal and music style, and create an avatar for them - metalhead deer wearing a blue hat". This wouldn't require any databases, just frontend and generative illustrations.
If you don't want to deal with design and illustrations that much, it could be something that utilises some open API. Like - let the user add ingredients and click "Today I will eat..." button, and retrieve a matching recipe from spoonacular API. That would be a nice intro to JS and APIs.
Anyway, I'd think about what field I'm more interested in before jumping to the idea phase. Good luck!
Hi everybody! I’ve been working on this for the past few weeks and I’m fairly happy with how it turned out. Basically, you add all (or some) of the ingredients you have in your household and see what you can make with them. Yesterday, I discovered I could make a brownie in a mug using peanut butter, cocoa & banana. It was meh but at least my application kind of works!
This project is powered with React using useState & useContext. No class components needed! Data is being fetched from the Spoonacular API. It does the work I wanted it to do but it’s not perfect. For example, it won’t recognize certain ingredient parameters such as ‘Baking Powder’. One thing to keep in mind I’m using the free plan so requests will be limited.
This is also the first time I’ve experimented with Tailwind CSS. I like it but my biggest hurdle was using Purge CSS. It removed styles I actually needed so the site is heavier than I would like for it to be.
Doing fun projects sounds like a great way to supplement the labs you are working through.
Personally I came to Powershell to automate some active directory stuff, but started using it as a daily driver once I realised I could easily work with data from external services. I still use Python and Node.js for some niche things like web scraping / browser testing / Maths heavy stuff.
As an example here's how to get a meal plan from spoonacular using Invoke-WebRequest you would need to sign up for a free api key to use this yourself.
$Params = @{ Method = 'GET' Uri = 'https://api.spoonacular.com/recipes/mealplans/generate' ContentType = 'application/json' Body = @{ "apiKey" = 'PUT-YOUR-KEY-HERE' } TimeoutSec = 20 }
$R = try{ (Invoke-WebRequest @Params -ErrorAction Stop) } catch [System.Net.WebException] { $_.Exception.Response } if($R -is [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HtmlWebResponseObject]){
# A successful Request is of type Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HtmlWebResponseObject
$StatusCode = [int]$R.BaseResponse.StatusCode
Write-Host "Status Code: $StatusCode"
$Value = ( convertFrom-Json $R.Content ).items
$Value
} elseif($R -is [System.Net.HttpWebResponse]){
# A unsuccessful Request is of type System.Net.HttpWebResponse $StatusCode = [int]$R.StatusCode Write-Host "Status Code: $StatusCode"
}
Hey, sorry for the late reply. Had a rough week. I agree with all of your points but could you elaborate the color contrast part? Do you have something particular in mind?
I'm using an API for all the data/recipes.
Late to the party, but I'd love for your thoughts on our site: https://spoonacular.com
I think you'd find it useful, since you can use our recipe search engine to find new recipes, save your favorites to recipe boxes such as "Weeknight Chicken", "Weeknight Pasta", or whatever makes sense to you, and then plop these recipes onto our meal planner when you plan the week - or at least the days you're taking on.
That's how I do my own meal planning anyway; I know we typically eat eggs 2x/week, fish 2x/week, meat 2x/week, and then something carb-central like a pasta dish 1x/week. I have boxes for each category and just drag and drop the recipes over every week based on what sounds good.
We'd like to throw our hat in the ring too. With spoonacular you'd have to type up your physical recipes, but we have extensions for saving recipes from other sites. As for sorting/searching, you would have to decide whether scones are breakfast or bread to put them into a recipe box, but then you can use the search bar to find them again quite easily by typing in "scones"; you can also search by ingredients, like "spaghetti with red wine" if you can't recall what a particular recipe is called. Our web app would be best suited for what you're doing, though we do have new mobile apps coming out this summer.
If you do have a look, please let us know what you think!
spoonacular is another free meal planner with nutritional information; it's especially useful if you're inputting your own recipes. They don't have keto recipes, at least not labeled as such, but you can add recipes from other sites pretty easily.
Forgive me for linking to my own site, but you might find a good recipe search engine useful for this task. For example:
https://spoonacular.com/popular-recipes-with-lentils-chickpeas-and-tomato-paste https://spoonacular.com/easy+recipes+with+tortillas+garlic+onion+and+brown+rice
https://spoonacular.com/popular-recipes-with-flour-blueberries-and-peanut-butter
I've browsed through some recipes from these result pages and you nearly have all the ingredients for a few already; others will require eggs, milk, etc. If you happen to be vegan, though, you could also search for vegan recipes.
just in case you (or anyone else) is willing to shop around a bit more, I'd love for you to check out spoonacular. It's similar (and also free) but we think our user interface is much more pleasant/enjoyable to use. Our mobile apps are being redone and will be out later this summer for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Plus, we're actively working on the site, so we're happy to make changes and add features based on user feedback.
just in case you're willing to shop around a bit more, I'd love for you to check out spoonacular. It's similar (and also free) but we think our user interface is much more pleasant/enjoyable to use.
you might also check out spoonacular. The meal planner is only web based at the moment, but you get an estimated grocery bill when you generate the shopping list. Of course grocery prices vary considerably, but it may still be useful to see which ingredients/meals tend to be on the expensive side.
Regarding point 4:
The problem I have with most food trackers is that it's too much manually inputting for me to stick with it. It can be extremely helpful, of course, to weigh everything exactly and punch it all in, but over time you'll learn what appropriate serving sizes are and that won't be quite as necessary. I still find spoonacular useful because it calculates the nutritional information for you when you add a product or recipe to the meal planner.
However, the nutritional information for the recipes is based on the serving size, so you have to pay close attention to how much the recipe is said to make. The recipes are from blogs all over the web and some bloggers and I don't seem to agree on what one serving is ;) If I find a recipe I like but it is supposedly for 4 people and I eat half, I copy the ingredient list and upload it as my own 2-serving recipe so I can make sure the nutritional info reflects how much I'm actually eating. I hope that makes sense.
Still, it's nice to just drag over Greek yogurt, a banana, and the salad I always have for lunch and let it do the work. Way less time intensive.
good luck!
Pardon the plug, but you could use our recipe search engine to get some ideas, especially when you have less stuff leftover. Depending on which common pantry items you still have you should find some good recipes to try. For example:
https://spoonacular.com/chicken-breast-and-canned-pineapple-and-rice
the first result - Sweet and Sour Chicken - is fairly simple and doesn't require many other ingredients
or perhaps: https://spoonacular.com/easy-shrimp-with-tomato-sauce-and-spaghetti
the "Shrimp Spaghetti" looks nice and would use up some of the spaghetti, canned tomatoes, and tomato sauce
Of course this isn't exactly rocket science, but you might find some surprising combinations if you play around a bit. Including the word "easy" cuts down on the # of ingredients in the results to help reduce the chance you need something else from the store.
anyway, just a thought, hope it helps!
Our Android app is still in development, but if you wouldn't mind something web based at the moment, I think you'd find our site useful. With our meal planner, you can add recipes from any healthy eating sites/blogs you like (or just use our recipe search engine). You can also add products to your meal plan - everything from bananas to frozen dinners. We calculate the day's nutritional information automatically, so you don't have to do a lot of plugging in. Please let me know what you think, if you do have a look: https://spoonacular.com/meal-planner
I'd love for you to check out spoonacular and our meal planner. You can save recipes from different websites or use our recipe search engine, and put these recipes on your meal plan. The nutritional information is calculated for you as you plan, and you can also add products like Greek yogurt, granola bars, etc. I personally don't cook 3x/day so I use that feature a lot myself.
If you do take a look, please let me know if you have any feedback! https://spoonacular.com/meal-planner
We have a recipe saving extension for Chrome but don't currently have anything user facing that would let you import your bookmarks. It's a great feature request, though, and we're going to look into building something. That said, if you wanted to create an account and email us your bookmarks, we could see what we can do. Perhaps give the site a look over to see if it's what you're looking for? spoonacular
I love any kind of fish cake made from canned fish, but that probably doesn't have much shine factor so I'd use the standard tuna for that.
Have a look here: https://spoonacular.com/popular-canned-tuna-recipes-with-no-carrots
There are a lot of nice pasta dishes that would work well for the nicer stuff :) A tuna melt on really good bread perhaps too?
Whenever I don't know where to start with an ingredient I usually do a search on spoonacular for popular recipes; I figure if 20000+ people liked something, it's probably good enough for me too.
https://spoonacular.com/popular-couscous
I personally find the couscous stuffed peppers and shrimp with toasted couscous most appealing, though I'm kind of curious about the fried egg since I thought I'd tried a fried egg on top of everything already...
enjoy :)
Yeah, I think it would be cool if Icelandic was still the language in use, taught in school, etc - it's just that there is no practical reason for that. Winnipeg is only an hour away, and its the major centre and speaks English. There are French parts of the city but even they have to also know English.
I guess another big part of culture is the food, and that is still going strong. A large part of the economy is commercial fishing in Lake Winnipeg, so different Icelandic dishes like this are still big. Also sweets like vinarterta or ponnokukur are staples.
A bit late to the party, but we'd like to throw our hat into the ring ;) We're redoing our apps because they don't currently include the meal planner, but it's available online if you're okay with something web based for now. Recipe search engine, recipe saving extensions, and meal planner with nutritional info: https://spoonacular.com/
We're going to be making some big changes to the meal planner soon (including an editable shopping list) but if you do have a look and have any feature requests we'd love to hear them.
Another free option at least =)
Pretty cool site - basically you just need to sign up and save a bunch of recipes to your recipe boxes (which you can organize however you want, create a "Sandwiches" box, a "Weeknight Dinner" box, etc.) You can save them either using the recipe search engine or using their extension if you have some recipes bookmarked already. Then you go to the meal planner, drag and drop recipes from your boxes, and generate a shopping list.
Meal planning is definitely key - spoonacular is similar but it's free and includes nutritional information for every recipe, which is helpful if you're counting calories, tracking your protein intake, or in my case, trying to get enough vitamin D in the winter ;)
My side project and labor of love is spoonacular - it's a semantic recipe search engine and meal planner. You can search for recipes like healthy brownies and save your favorites to customizable recipe boxes (e.g. "Healthy Desserts").
You can also use our browser extensions to save recipes from your favorite healthy eating sites/blogs (and get the nutritional information for any recipe).
With our meal planner, you can plan your meals for the week and get the macro and micronutrients automatically calculated for each day.
We're proud of what we've accomplished without quitting our day jobs, but it's so hard to spread the word with no marketing budget or expertise :P
Apps are on their way and feedback is very welcome :)
Could you explain your needs a bit? We have a meal planner that adds up the daily calories, protein, fat, etc. as you plan. You can also set your profile to Paleo or exclude specific foods so that when you use our recipe search engine you only get Paleo recipes (or recipes without cashews, in your case). We're also planning some major changes soon, so if you do have a look and come up with some feature requests, we'd love to hear them. For one thing, we're going to make it possible to automatically generate meal plans based on desired macronutrients, if that's something that attracts you to an online meal planner.
You could have a look at our site if you are open to an online option. We have extensions for adding recipes from other sites, as well as a recipe search engine that would work well for the 'reverse recipe lookup' bit. You can search for pretty complex stuff and we've got you covered, for example: https://spoonacular.com/spaghetti+with+lemon+and+capers+no+chicken
We have nutritional information for all recipes and you can get the total tallied up if you use our meal planner - you can create recipe boxes to organize the recipes you like, and these are easily found again in the meal planner. The daily macro and micronutrients are calculated as you add dishes. You can also add basic foods, like "1 banana and 2 tablespoons of peanut butter" so you don't have to create a new recipe for every little thing you eat ;)
There is a price estimate (in dollars) but unfortunately no dynamic prices - that data is hard to come by in the US. Our grocery list is automatically generated for now, but we're actually going to be making some major changes to the meal planner within the next several weeks, and a fully customizable shopping list is on our to-do list. In fact, if you do try it out, we would really appreciate any feedback/feature requests.
Please forgive the plug - we're really proud of our labor of love and it's hard to spread the word ;)
Have a look here: https://spoonacular.com/popular+acorn+squash+recipes
The Parmesan Roasted Squash looks interesting/simple enough, as does the squash with the fried egg on top. Stuffing it seems like a nice idea too; the one with sausage and quinoa sounds great though I'd probably just use rice kind of like a stuffed bell pepper.
Michael Pollan says "Eat anything you want, just cook it yourself." Many unhealthy foods are too time consuming to make at home on a regular basis (compared to going out and buying them). This isn't always true of course (pasta covered in cheese isn't necessarily something that'll take you all day), but I applaud your effort to want to cook more yourself!
Anyway, we tried to make our recipe search engine understand 'healthy' and, though there is still room for improvement (especially since healthy is rather subjective), it would probably be fun to play around with. For example: https://spoonacular.com/healthy+macaroni+and+cheese
I see some of the top results have at least added cauliflower, squash, broccoli, etc.
But in general you'll probably want to cut back on so much pasta and focus, as you said, on protein and vegetables. You can certainly have those comfort foods, but healthified or not you'd be better off trying new things and letting your tastebuds adjust, IMO :)
Using whole wheat flour is one option, but they might be more dense. Perhaps you could try one of these sweet potato roll recipes and sub in whole wheat flour for half of the wheat flour - at least with these you'll get a little more vitamin A in there :) https://spoonacular.com/sweet+potato+rolls
spoonacular has browser extensions for clipping recipes, but you can also use their recipe search engine and upload your own recipes. I found it looking for a free meal planner: https://spoonacular.com/
Maybe a healthy banana split? Greek yogurt instead of ice cream, dark chocolate chips, cacao nibs, frozen berries.. of course you'd have to eat this when the bananas are still somewhat frozen as they'll probably be very mushy once thawed. Perhaps you can also thaw them just to the point of being able to be sliced and cover them in melted dark chocolate and shredded coconut.
Otherwise these somewhat health-ified donuts sound delicious, but I suppose this may be too close to bread/muffins: https://spoonacular.com/Wholesome-Banana-Donuts---Gluten-Free---Vegan-543033
I used our recipe search engine to find some options: https://spoonacular.com/gravy-without-egg-or-dairy
I think the "Easy Paleo Gravy" and the "Apple Cider Turkey Gravy" both sound interesting. Hope this helps!
https://spoonacular.com/healthy-vegetarian-main-dish-without-beans
You could play around with our recipe search engine; if you set your profile to vegetarian and exclude beans you'll only get beanless vegetarian results.
This meal planner might not have all the functionality you're looking for, but it does calculate the day's macronutrients as you plan: https://spoonacular.com/weekly-meal-planner
It's best if you have a small repertoire of meals you eat frequently so you can upload the recipes and plug them in again and again. They do have a recipe search engine and estimated nutritional information for all the recipes as well. I've found the team really helpful so you could always drop them a line if you have some suggestions.
Can you describe them more? Generally I rely on a recipe search engine to figure out these kinds of things but I'm also not coming up with butterscotch balls with peanut butter. I have found butterscotch peanut butter fudge (https://spoonacular.com/Butterscotch-Peanut-Butter-Fudge-383257) and no bake peanut butter butterscotch cookies (https://spoonacular.com/no-bake-peanut-butter-butterscotch-crisp-cookies-507268) both of which I can imagine could be shaped as balls. Since you said they were a bit crispy, were they rice crispyish? The latter has rice crispies. Good luck!
At https://spoonacular.com/weekly-meal-planner you get the complete nutritional information as you add meals/foods to your plan, but you cannot plug in your desired macros... It is my understanding that this feature is on the way though.
Someone else asked about plum recipes recently, I'll make the same suggestion:
When in doubt I usually look for popular recipes and get inspired (https://spoonacular.com/popular+plum+recipes). I am already liking the first result - blueberry plum butter. Autumn sangria is also intriguing, as is the plum upside down cake... Perhaps the easiest thing is a crumble.
When in doubt I usually look for popular recipes and get inspired (https://spoonacular.com/popular+plum+recipes). I am already liking the first result - blueberry plum butter. Autumn sangria is also intriguing, as is the plum upside down cake... you shouldn't have too much trouble finding something.
Some ideas:
Shepherd's Pie variation (still uses pulled pork, but at least it's different than what you're used to) https://spoonacular.com/Pulled-Pork-Shepherd%E2%80%99s-Pie-474195 Pork vindaloo: https://spoonacular.com/Pork-Vindaloo-238933 This next recipe is a bit more involved (you need a grill, wood chips, and several hours) but looks pretty tasty: https://spoonacular.com/Smoked-Char-Siu-Pork-Shoulder-Steaks-202543
I admittedly have not tried these but they come from good sources. Let me know if you give any of them a go :)
I have to admit I had never heard of doing this, but I guess I can see how it works. This cheesecake uses mashed potatoes and looks quite nice: https://spoonacular.com/sernik-polish-cheesecake-131317 as does this gluten free lemon cake https://spoonacular.com/Gluten-free-lemon-drizzle-cake-212479 But other than cakes (as you requested, sorry I got distracted there) I ran across these chocolate coconut candies: https://spoonacular.com/Coconut-Candies-54017
I've never tried them but please let me know how they turn out if you do. I'm rather curious now.
I'm not sure what chia is usually used for, some kind of pudding? Or more like a porridge?
Regardless I found these recipes that have both chia and quinoa ;) good luck: https://spoonacular.com/quinoa-chia
Like Fishercat I rarely do anything with pomegranates other than putting them in a fruit salad or something. That said, if I were in your shoes, I would make these awesome looking Brussels sprouts (https://spoonacular.com/Honey-Pomegranate-Glazed-Brussels-Sprouts-502408) and then maybe this gelato: https://spoonacular.com/Pomegranate-Gelato-140517
otherwise use them to top just about anything - sweet potatoes, Greek yogurt, oatmeal, pancakes...
You could definitely use the kale and beets in a smoothie, but this pizza sounds much tastier: https://spoonacular.com/Beet-Pesto-Pizza-with-Kale-and-Goat-Cheese-512642 Dill would probably be weird in this context so maybe use that to make honey-dilled carrots.
I have a serious sweet tooth (not very Paleo of me) so I'd probably go with these pumpkin pancakes (https://spoonacular.com/Paleo-Pumpkin-Pancakes--Paleo--GlutenFree-560891) or this pumpkin latte (https://spoonacular.com/Paleo-Coffee-Drink--Pumpkin-Latte-482180) or both at the same time. Only if you're cool with a little maple syrup though.