Help me fill up my husband....

[lillygator]

Ok - so I bought a cookbook of some great summer meals which are mainly light salads. I said to DH last night - great one night a week we will have a salad night....he looked at me hungry already...he said what else will you be cooking?!!

So, what can I make that is light yet fill him up? I love the idea of a salad and a little bread night. He is a big boy at 6'4", 250 lbs....

 

[Lesli54]

If you make a really good sized salad filled with veggies, protien, etc., I think he will be surprised at how good it tastes and how full he really is. If he insists on something else, maybe you could serve soup or a small sandwich. Ask him to be open to the idea and if your new menus aren't satisfying after trying for a couple of weeks then you will tweak them a little. I think he will be surprised to find that he is full.

 

[PatricenPete]

I make a lot of taco salads (sans the tortilla) I just make taco meat, cut up tomatoes, cheese, onion, jalapeno, a little sour cream, and you are good to go - it is DELICIOUS!

I also make buffalo chicken salads. I bake 2 chicken breasts and then pan fry them with some buffalo sauce (only 1 carb/tbsp) and serve that over a bed of lettuce with crumble bleu cheese and bleu cheese dressing. DELICIOUS!!!!!

 

[lillygator]

Oh he loves blue cheese!! That sounds delicious!

 

[budly]

Go get a Northern Italian cookbook that has nutritional information in it. It is not a diet cookbook, but a real cookbook. I have four or five. There are tons of ways to cook chicken, fish, pork, and veal. The dishes are all "real food." Most servings are less than 15 grams of fat and 250 calories. I look for them and they are good. If you eat light at lunch and breakfast, you can easily take in this meal and stay low on calories and fat for the day. Also, I always serve this stuff over some sort of pasta that I don't eat--the fam does. That saves me a couple hundred calories while they fill up, and my husband never complains that he did not get enough.

Budly

 

[lillygator]

Patrice - I made the buffalo chicken salad last night for DH and he loved it! I bought low fat dressing for me, full fat for him and we both wolfed it down!

 

[PatricenPete]

YAHOO! I am so glad that you both liked it. It is a staple here - we always have a bottle of buffalo sauce in the fridge!