Wish I'd gotten a picture but I didn't. I decided to eat a little healthier yesterday by #1, cooking myself dinner after church instead of snacking. and #2 making mostly veggies for dinner.
Ingredients on hand:
potatoes
carrots
onions
cookies
ice cream
fritos
lipton onion soup mix
fish sticks
ground beef
canned white northern beans.
after glancing through my pantry at the various appetizing items,... I decided to forgo the cookies, ice cream, fritos, and even the meat. foil dinners sounded really yummy yesterday,.. even the fish was appealing,.. (I know! right?... though truth be told I do love fish sticks and don't really consider them to be fish but I digress) ...
Why the meat? I've been having a lot of treats lately,.. the leaner this meal turned out the better probably for my weight loss goals and overall healthy eating goals.
So I really wanted to keep it simple.
I really didn't want to cook anything. ....glancing around the kitchen in desperation or anxiety at having to actually cook...noticed the george foreman next to the sink. Perfect. I've been re-appreciating this grill lately for various food items.
I decided to slice my veggies into 3/4 inch thick circles and strips,.. (the carrots were in strips since it was the fastest least tedious way to break them down)....slap em on the grill and plug it in and done!... or so I thought.
I decided given that I really was kinda hungry I'd put a little more effort into it. I grabbed the can - o -beans and threw that on the stove. Half the time I really just like white beans plain but today I wanted something a little more. I also was sure I wanted those onions but I knew they wouldn't flavor anything the way I was cooking them so now enters the lipton onion soup mix.
I sprinkled a little onto the grilling veggies (this made a mess..not my favorite but it did the trick) and put the rest into the beans. I think the flavor was a little strong and probably not quite what I wanted but still. for quick and easy it wasn't terrible. I settled for diluting everything with water to (even on the grilled veggies which I flipped half way through so that they would sear nicely on both sides....very steamy lol) ....pretty much washed off the beans which I preferred mostly plain and enjoyed the light seasoning on the veggies.
voila! grilled veggies a la heated up beans. :)
In hindsight I think next time a pinch of salt on the veggies and maybe some butter melted onto the carrots would do just the trick to make it fantabulous but hey... you can't knock it out of the park everytime and this was good enough for just me.
How did J like dinner? basically not. She tried a bean which I was really pleased with but immediately decided she wanted to spit it out and would not touch anything else on my plate so I think she had toast for dinner. Don't really remember but hey my philosophy right now is that if you don't eat dinner you don't get to make up for it with other snacks. I'm just not very good at sticking to this but I'm getting better.
Hope this inspires you to try new things with your george foreman. :) Maybe I'll go home and grill those beets I've been neglecting to cook next! for my lunches.
