Fast Food Recipes

• Wholegrain bread, spread with pesto, then topped with sliced tomato and mozzarella cheese. Bake or broil.
  
  
• Scramble two eggs and stir in some chevre and chopped green onions just before the eggs have totally set.
  
  
• Cut up tomatoes, green onions and cucumber and mix with cottage cheese and ground fresh pepper.
  
  
• Split a whole wheat pita and do an openfaced sandwich on it. I put sliced salad onions and green peppers on the thin slices of pita, then cheese, and I bake or broil it.
  
  
• Dress leftover steamed veggies with salad dressing, and add some canned beans.
  
  
• Heat a can of black beans, adding some ground cumin, squeezed garlic and some hot red pepper flakes. Mash the beans until thickened and like a lumpy refried beans dish. Top with cheese, slide into the oven. Meanwhile, either heat some cooked rice or get out some whole wheat tortillas, or corn chips if you can eat them. Chop some dark green lettuce, tomatoes, and salad onion. Make haystacks or burritos, or just eat it all with rice in any configuration you like. You can add salsa and sour cream or plain yogurt, too. This is the meal my son and I eat most frequently together on the nights when his father is working late and doesn't have dinner with us.

• Tuna salad with dill, salmon salad with Patak's garlic relish, or egg salad with curry powder on ryvita or WASA or Ezekiel bread, with cut up celery, carrots and cucumbers on the side.
  
  
• Today, for lunch, I'm having tuna salad on ryvita, half a can of Progresso hearty black bean soup, and a salad made of a little of this and a little of that - basically just cut up what I had in the fridge and put some dressing on it.
  
  I do use a few canned soups, to supplement protein, and for cold days when I just want something warm (and it's cold and damp here today - I worked out just to get warm!

• I have a favorite that i use for a quick breakfast. I take a couple of brown rice cakes and top each one with a tbsp of natural peanut butter and a sliced strawberry (when in season) or a couple of slices of banana. Add a couple of hard-boiled eggs or string cheeses and presto an on-the-go breakfast. The good thing is that I can prepare it the night before, put in a brown bag, stow in the fridge and then grab-n-go the next morning.
  
  
• I also like taking a couple of slices of Ezekial bread, spraying one side of each slice with olive oil and then putting a slice of Provalone or Cheddar in between. Sometimes for a change I put a little yellow mustard on a slice and then the cheese or add some super thinly sliced onion to the cheese. Who doesn't like the old stand by of grilled cheese? Add a few veggies or some veggie soup or chili and viola - a yummy, easy lunch.

• 2 WW tortillas
• romaine salad mix
• fresh tomato
• 1 slice Swiss cheese
• tinned Mackerel
• lemon herb salad dressing (sugarless)