Menu Planning

I have had a few questions lately on menu planning. Click here for a previous list of meal and snack ideas. A few websites I like to find recipes on are Food Network, Cooking Light and All Recipes. Also, I hope you all took Cameron’s cookbook home and have tried some of the recipes!
Here are a few interactive websites for even more ideas. Some are geared more to specific calorie levels, others to diabetics and others to lower sodium diets. I hope you can find one or all of these websites useful.  At the bottom there are a few links to some well written weight loss cookbooks.

MyPyramid Plan: Uses the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to assist in making more healthful food and physical activity choices.
http://mypyramid.gov/

MyPyramid Sample Menu for a 2,000-calorie meal plan http://www.mypyramid.gov/downloads/sample_menu.pdf

Interactive Meal Planner: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/menuplanner/menu.cgi

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension: This eating plan, or the DASH diet, features fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other foods that are heart healthy and lower in salt/sodium. A week’s worth of menus and easy to prepare recipes for two levels of daily sodium consumption – 2,300 and 1,500 mg per day – are available.
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/hbp/dash/

Diabetes Meal Planning Tutorial: MEDLINEPlus – This is especially great for those of you with diabetes.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/diabetesmealplanning/htm/index.htm

Recipe and Meal Planner Guide: National Diabetes Education Program
http://ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/MealPlanner/

Cookin’ With Google: This site allows you to provide a list of ingredients and get back a list of recipes Google finds for you. Vegetarian, diabetic and gluten-free options are available.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/tools/cookin-with-google/

American Dietetic Association Cooking Healthy Across America
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/shop_1353_ENU_HTML.htm

American Dietetic Association 365 Days of Healthy Eating
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/804_ENU_HTML.htm

The Healthy Beef Cookbook
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/shop_1354_ENU_HTML.htm

The Way to Eat: A Six Step Path to Lifelong Weight Control http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/shop_1368_ENU_HTML.htm

Good Nutrition Reading List
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition_4927_ENU_HTML.htm

Emily Fonnesbeck RD,CD