Healthy Dinner Club-Weekly Event

A small gathering has been occurring in my home ever since my luxurious week off from work – it is Healthy Dinner Night.  So my love for entertaining has melded with my love for nutrition.  I gather meal ideas from various sources.  Last week I turned a high calorie comfort food meat loaf into a lean entrée by using lean ground turkey and vegetables to add flavor.  Packaged gravy (I have yet to experiment with some homemade dry mixes but that will come soon.), “caramelized” onions and healthier whipped potatoes rounded out the meal.  A mixed green salad has been a staple to our dinners for the extra vegetables.  Last week we had the additional item of a dessert which isn’t our normal course but was very welcome.  The truly dedicated to the healthful lifestyle changes opted to skip on the whipped potatoes in order to enjoy a dessert.  These evenings are about enjoying a healthful meal by trying some new healthful recipes, updating household favorites to be more nutritious and practicing portion control with all our foods.  As an old hat at practicing portion control, it’s definitely easier to enjoy abundance when the meal is healthful as the ingredients lend themselves to providing a more satisfying meal.

 Today's culinary treat is a Carrot Ginger Soup as it is something that will sit well before my evening workout.  A mixed green salad topped with homemade egg salad and a glass of milk will serve as my post-workout meal.  I'm already feeling the calorie burn from the anticipated run tonight.

Tomorrow, I will be trying a new recipe that I found on Pinterest- Sweet and Spicy Salmon Kabobs with a chickpea salad recipe from Cooking Light.  The fresh herbs from the garden have not only made this meal economical (saving the $ splurge for the salmon purchase) but also provide improved flavors. 

 

Menu

Sweet and Spicy Salmon Kabobs

Chickpea and Olive Salad

Mixed Green Salad

Wine (Optional)

 

Mission skinny gourmand is going excellently well on all fronts.  I finally feel over the virus that accompanied me from Las Vegas so it’s day two of resuming physical activity.