Top 30 THM Dinners

For my Mom!

Staying on plan with THM can be tricky for me. Typically my family will eat THM meals that I make but often they prefer our normal foods. The hardest part though is not wanting to try a new recipe and have it come out awful. Fortunately I've found a good stash of keepers. But due to costs and difficulty level I don't always share these meals (cauliflower pizza anyone?!)

Even worse than finding yummy foods to eat is that often when dinner time rolls around my mind is blank. "Hmmm. I know I've made yummy THM foods but what were they??" 

I've found it helpful to make a list of my favorite meals and tape it to the inside of a cabinet. Without further ado here's my list. I'll be adding links and hopefully some pictures and recipes as I go.

S - Cheeseburger Pie
S - Joseph's Lavash Pizza
S - Cauliflower crust Pizza
Unstuffed Pepper Casserole
E - Arroz Con Pollo - I'll be adding my own version which has cheese
S - Mongolian Chicken with Dreamfields
E - Baked chicken with cheese, turkey bacon, bbq sauce and quinoa
E - Lentil Soup
S -Tomato Soup
S - Zuppa Toscana w/ cauliflower
E - Morey's marinated Salmon with a sweet potato
S - Beef and Broccoli
S - Pulled pork BBQ in a Joseph's pita
E - Black Bean Burger
S - Grilled Steak with Asparagus
E - Zucchini Fettucine - a family recipe!
S - Zucchini Boats
S - Fettucine Alfredo
S - Spaghetti Squash Carbonara
S - Squashagna
S - Cauliflower Au Gratin
E - Blackened Chicken with Avocado Yogurt Sauce and Quinoa
E - Butter Chicken with Rice or Quinoa
S - Spaghetti with Turkey Meatballs
S - Dreamfields mac and cheese
S - Egg Roll in a Bowl
S - Mexican Chicken Lime Soup
S or E - Chili
S - Chicken Pot Pie
S - Chicken Fried "Rice"

To keep things simple your base carbs are:
1 cup of Nature's Intent Organic Andrean Gold Quinoa (Costco has it cheaper) 33 carbs
1 cup of Trader Joe's Wild Rice 36 carbs
1/3 cup cooked Dreamfields pasta. Back in the day they said you could use this as an S. The company has changed their policy on this but I can get away with a tiny portion and still lose weight. For me that was about 2.5 cooked ounces. Enough to bulk up my meals and provide a little noodle.  YMMV.
Josephs Pitas 5 carbs
Joseph's Lavash 4 carbs in 1/2 a lavash

Trim Healthy Mama THM Cookie Dough Cheesecake Shake - FUEL PULL

There are no chocolate chips in this shake but with under 220 calories and packing a full 35 grams of protein you won't miss it! Best of all coming it at 4 net carbs and 6 grams of fat this qualifies as a fuel pull (8 or less grams of fat, 10 or less carbs).


Cookie Dough Cheesecake Shake

4 oz cottage cheese
scoop of Jay Robb chocolate whey protein powder
1/2 tsp Glucomannan
2 tsp low fat cream cheese
scant 1/4 tsp salt
scant 1/4 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp Naturemate (or other sugar substitute)
2 cups of ice

Add all ingredients except to blender as listed and blend! Add ice once to the blender once the other ingredients are well mixed. My Vitamix powers through the ice easily but with a less powerful blender you may need to add the ice slowly.