My husband and I just moved in with his parents with our daughter, and none of us realized beforehand just how hard it's going to be to feed us all
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i don't have anything as far as dishes go...but for the lactose intolerance...i take lactaid suppliment pills (lactaid brand or generic..)...you usually find them next to the antacids...and let me tell you! AMAZING! it allows me to eat dairy again with out problems! you take it with every dairy type meal (pizza, alfredo, cheesecake, bagels and cream cheese). All it is...is just a pill with lactose enzymes so your body can be ok!
at least this may help open back some options if you are willing to take a pill and or chewable for every meal that has dairy. Foods once forgotten can now be enjoyed again.
Can you take them every day as a "just in case" measure? Or is that a bad idea? *laugh* I don't typically plan out my meals for the day, so I don't know until a few minutes before I eat what it is I'm going to be eating.
To decrease the fat, one could reduce the peanut butter to 1/3 cup or even less, omit the egg, and cut down on the olive oil and butter. It's probably also a good idea to increase the broth to 2 cups so it doesn't dry out. My aunt makes it with brown rice as well.
Oh, yeah, it could also work as a vegetarian dish without the chicken and with vegetable broth. I've actually never tried it that way, but I don't see why it wouldn't work!
That looks SO good! But yeah, it would definitely need a little refining. *laugh* I just did the points calculation and as it's written, a single serving is 21 points. I only get 29 a day (though my husband gets 71, the jerk)! But it does look easily modifiable and definitely doable, so thank you very very much!
I would make meals that have their own components, like a taco or burrito bar. The ground beef, beans, rice, vegetables are all separate components which can be thrown together or kept apart on individual plates. This concept can also be used with soups, salads, pastas, etc. I would have pre-cooked ground beef in the freezer in servings of two so that any meal you make can have the ground beef thrown into if for the MIL and FIL. I would have precook spaghetti squash in the freezer also so that you, hubby, and MIL can have extra veg instead of pasta when needed. You can have a bag of pre-cooked shrimp of fish in thefreezer for hubby's meals. He just gets a serving heated along with food. It does not take much heating to reheat shrimp and fish.
I hope this concept helps some. It is not making fully different meals but adding components or taking away when needed.
Feeding a mixed carnivore-veggie family with different tastes, I go so far as to make a mix and match stir fry - stir fry your veggies and then 1-2 proteins (separate pans, but adding onions/garlic/green onions/ginger/soy as desired ), and cook rice or noodles separately. Let everyone take what they like and leave what they don't. it pretty much makes everyone happy, and is not much more trouble than making one mixed stir fry.
I don't have any suggestions off hand, but holy crap. You have my sympathies!! (I've had Quorn chicken....if I hadn't known it was, I would have guessed it was chicken).
I forgot, but you may have already discovered these vegetarian, dairy free cheese brands:
Daiya Galaxy Nutritional Foods (Veggie Shreds, Veggie Slices, etc.) Teese Tofutti - (the above four are a friend’s go-tos) LifeThyme Follow your Heart Earth Balance is a dairy free butter
You might look at shirataki (though it can be hard to find some places). They're Japanese noodles that are made from yam or tofu, and they're low-cal and really low-carb.
I've seen them in the cooler section of my International grocery store (Chinese, Japanese, Viet, Thai, Indian ... they have it all) but am curious as to their taste. Someone claimed they were on the 'funky' side, whatever that means. :)
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at least this may help open back some options if you are willing to take a pill and or chewable for every meal that has dairy. Foods once forgotten can now be enjoyed again.
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You take them just as you're starting your meal, so if you're home just take what you need, if you're out, definitely carry some with you for JIC. =)
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http://www.justbestrecipes.com/egg-dish/casablanca-chicken-and-rice-zwt3-north-africa.html
To decrease the fat, one could reduce the peanut butter to 1/3 cup or even less, omit the egg, and cut down on the olive oil and butter. It's probably also a good idea to increase the broth to 2 cups so it doesn't dry out. My aunt makes it with brown rice as well.
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This concept can also be used with soups, salads, pastas, etc.
I would have pre-cooked ground beef in the freezer in servings of two so that any meal you make can have the ground beef thrown into if for the MIL and FIL. I would have precook spaghetti squash in the freezer also so that you, hubby, and MIL can have extra veg instead of pasta when needed.
You can have a bag of pre-cooked shrimp of fish in thefreezer for hubby's meals. He just gets a serving heated along with food. It does not take much heating to reheat shrimp and fish.
I hope this concept helps some. It is not making fully different meals but adding components or taking away when needed.
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As for lactose intolerance...there's a pill for that! =) My dad uses them, and I do on days I may have more dairy than usual:
http://www.puritan.com/digestive-health-047/super-lactase-enzyme-125-mg-004930?scid=5317&cm_mmc=Shopping-_-Digestive%20Health-_-super-lactase-enzyme-125-mg-_-004930 - though you should be able to find them in any vitamin sections if stores if you don't want to do mail order, though Puritan's Pride usually has buy so many, get so many free. You could have alfredo sauce again ( ... )
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I forgot, but you may have already discovered these vegetarian, dairy free cheese brands:
Daiya
Galaxy Nutritional Foods (Veggie Shreds, Veggie Slices, etc.)
Teese
Tofutti
- (the above four are a friend’s go-tos)
LifeThyme
Follow your Heart
Earth Balance is a dairy free butter
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