Unprocessed/Minimally processed Eats?

I probably get somewhere between 5% and 10% of my meals through shopping....not that much, but I only take the ones I enjoy and I try to offset those with healthier eats at home.
It seems like everyone in this country has their own favorite dietary fetish, the list is endless. It gets ridic.
I just try, at home, to eat unprocessed or minimally processed foods.
When you slice an apple, it goes from unprocessed to minimally processed, so we can let logic rule. Apple slices fried and dipped in sugar? you get the picture lol.
I am trying to come up with new meal ideas that fall under both easy and closer to nature.
The other day, I bought a chopped bag of salad at the store, topped it with kidney beans, dressing and shredded cheese and it was easy and tasted good. Fiber, protein, flavor
Do you have a favorite healthy meal?

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[www.sheknows.com] I love this recipe.

I do something similar over bell pepper "nachos".
Can add pico de gallo or other fresh food topping that suit you.

I add Fat free Greek Yogurt instead of sour cream. I often leave out the cheesecake there's so much flavour without it.

Your salad idea sounds great too.

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If ya do the grocery shops, Taylor Farms is now making bags of vegetables designed to be cooked in an air fryer, and other bags of vegetables for roasting. I got a bunch of them marked down to $1.40 per bag, and then at another store I got 5 bags of Buffalo Ranch salad kits for $1.70 each. I add some tomatoes, a package of tuna, and some pepperoncini or banana peppers and turn it into a meal salad with protein. I've tried the envelopes of chicken and salmon too, but I don't buy them as often.

We season cube steaks, then lightly dust with flour to make a crust, then cook it on the Blackstone in beef tallow, and roast some well-seasoned cauliflower and/or broccoli, or asparagus with the cover on them while the meat is cooking. Good food, very few carbs, and we use Casava flour instead of wheat flour to make it grain free, but we use wheat flour now and then too.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/2025 10:15PM by Morledzep.

great ideas....thanks. I don't think I've seen cube steaks in the stores in a long time....we used to love them as kids when my parents served them...will look for them! sounds good.
Recently, a friend served us grilled cauliflower "steaks" those were actually very good....with a tahini sauce on the side.
I miss the food I had in Mexico a couple months ago....wow, great eats...fish grilled whole, not fileted...tasty.

Bare, I've yet to go into a Kroger that didn't have at least one pack with 2 cube steaks in it for $5 - 6. It's still paying beef prices, but it's two portions of meat, and it makes a good light meal. That and the 10oz. shaved beef packs are about the only way I get to eat beef anymore.

I wonder if they're just less popular around here now...not sure.
I use the shaved beef whenever I make hot pot, it's great.

We like to make cheesesteak sandwiches and burritos with the shaved beef. One pack makes 2 generous cheesesteak sandwiches, or, depending on how my son fills them up, 4 good sized burritos. I hadn't thought much about asian food, I like to cook that myself, because of my son's lack of ability to follow multi-step instructions. And I haven't had a useable stove inside the house for over a year now. I've bought $$$$ worth of parts for a stove I only paid $600 for 10 years ago, but we can't find a used replacement that works better, and a new one is out of my price range.

Though I did manage to get a brand new, still in the box, Hotpoint 18.8 cu ft chest freezer last week for $419. Every time we go into Lowes we check the scratch and dents in the appliance department. That's how I found my wonderful Frigidaire stove that I had to leave behind in CA, and a few dishwashers and laundry stuff too. Gas stoves seem to be at a premium here, they are few and far between, some stores don't even have them on display because so few people use them here. I think the 240v plug for the stove doesn't work, and I hate cooking on an electric stove anyway.

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