
See dinner meal recipes for actual ingredients and methods- this is just some quick ideas to give some inspiration and get you thinking!
- Mexican Night- low fat mince with black beans with salad in a tortilla or taco
- Chicken, prawn, pork or beef stirfry with ginger and garlic or black bean soyce (and lots of vegetables)
- Roasted kumara, pumpkin or butternut (use cooking spray) with roast chicken (either home roasted or bought from supermarket) with green beans and carrots
- Lean piece of steak with baked potato in skin (no sour cream or butter) or cob of corn with coleslaw (finely sliced cabbage and carrot mixed with small amount of light mayonnaise or chutney add handful of sultanas.
- Low fat, no pastry quiche with side salad (see recipe page)
- Baked salmon with new potatoes and broccoli and cauliflower
- Fan fried (minimal oil) fish with kumara mash and rocket leaf salad with walnuts.
- Beef casserole with brown rice and steamed mixed vegetables
- Tuna pasta bake with side salad or steamed vegetables
- Potato and salmon cakes (mashed potato then add tin of salmon plus some spring onion and tuscan seasoning then mix. Turn mixture into patties and fry in pan for 2mins each side or until brown.) Serve with salad.
- Turkish meal with falafels (these are a vegetarian option made from chickpeas and rolled into a ball). Either serve with couscous, in a pita pocket or wrap with hummus.


- One- stop omlette: an omlette filled with baby spinach, mushrooms and diced tomato with feta cheese. Serve with or without a piece of wholegrain bread.


- Baked beans (or Watties Mexican bean mix) refried with onion, mushrooms, carrot, courgettes etc and placed on toasted pita bread sliced into wedges for healthy nachos. Serve with shredded lettuce and avocado.