This is one of my favs and I use it a lot and it's great for other people who need a help with meals -easy to make and cheap too! -Em
 
Hearty-Homemade Chicken Soup
 
1 whole chicken

5 or more carrots

1 whole celery stalk

1 whole onion

Some potatoes - leave the skin on.

Salt and pepper to taste

Garlic powder and basil is optional

Rice, optional
 
This is a VERY easy recipe I have made up for times when ya just need a good soothing soup. Feed an army or eat off of it for several days from the fridge or freeze in individual serving size baggies for later use.
 
Here is what you do; Get your largest stock pot, the larger the pot, the more servings the longer the soup lasts. Clean up your whole chicken (you can of course us chicken parts, breasts, wings thighs if that is what you have) and be sure to leave the skin on and please take the innards out! Put the chicken in the pot and fill with water. Add some salt and pepper and garlic if you like. Let that bird boil till you get a lovely broth and the meat parts away from the knife when you cut it.
 
Turn off the heat, and get the chicken out of the pot and onto a cutting board - hot bird! (You might need to filter through the chicken broth you just made to get any chicken yuckies out of the water.) While you let that cool enough to get the meat off, go ahead and clean and chop up all your veggies - as many as you want and in the size you want to eat them on a spoon. Leave the skins on your veggies as much as possible.
 
Now that your chicken is touchable, use a knife, fork and fingers to get every last little bit of meat off the carcass (and throw skin out) and put your bite sized pieces of meat back into your pot. Cook the whole thing until your toughest veggies are tender! Now, at the last minute, just before the veggies are done, you may want to add rice (or noodles) Rice will give it just enough carbs to "stick to your ribs" as they say. :-) Don't add too much!- I know from experience, it makes a goulash that will suck up all your lovely broth and you have to add more water! just about a cup and a half for a large pot I think. Serve nice and hot with a salad on the side!

Mango Yogurt Smoothy
 
This is like ice cream! Make as much or as little as you want!
Frozen mango chunks (or of course, cut up fresh mango, it just won't be as cold)
And a tub of Brown Cow Organic Yogurt - Plain
Vanilla or Maple
 
Use a blender to mix up however much you want - it should be a lovely mango orange when you're done and not chunky but smooth. Enjoy in a cup or a bowl with a spoon or a straw! Your taste buds will thank you!

Hearty Spaghetti
 
1 pound of lean beef

Spelt noodles (from health food store)

And just a jar of Classico spaghetti sauce or Muir Glen Organic sauce.
 
Brown the meat with a bit of salt and pepper, garlic and basil. Pour in and mix the sauce after the meat is cooked and let that simmer until hot. Boil water for noodles and be sure to put some butter or olive oil in the water to help the noodles not to clump up. Add the noodles into the water after a rolling boil has begun and let them cook unit soft. Put 'em on a plate, slather with your meaty sauce and bon apetite! With a little bit of parmesan, and a salad on the side! Yummy!
 
-Extremely tasty variation! Saute, onions and red and green bell peppers and maybe even some zucchini and fresh garlic and add that to your browned meat and sauce! This sauce is so good, I've eaten it plain like a bowl of chili!
 
Ron's added suggestions:

Brown Rice spaghetti from a health food store or Trader Joes's is good.
Trader Joe's also carries organic sauces if Emily's are difficult to find.
Organic meats are available.
Emily's suggestion of the added veggies is a very good health choice as well.

No Sugar - Apple pie
 
Would you believe apples are sweet!? You can make a pie with them using just cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, and maybe a little bit of apple or orange juice - and voila! A tasty, guilt free pie that is food you can eat for breakfast! Just follow a basic apple pie recipe and be sure to use a crust recipe that only uses butter and not Crisco. Make the crust with love for the ones you are making it for, it's the key to making it turn out. And bake a healthy, lovely pie from scratch!-who needs the holidays to splurge on sweet pies, make this your apple a day. :-)

Really Meaty Stuffed Bell Peppers for the Guys!
 
"It's like a round hamburger without the bun!"
 
1 pound of lean beef, or any kind of red meat really, buffalo is great too.

3 green bell peppers

2 carrots

onion

salt
Spices; pepper, garlic, basil, Mrs Dash.
Oven at 350o
 
Wash your bell peppers. Cut bell peppers from top to bottom, being sure the take out the round top part and the seeds. Chop chop chop your carrots and onion until nice and fine. Now, roll up your sleeves and mix your spices and finely chopped carrots into your meat. Stuff the peppers with as much meat as they can handle without spilling out the top. Poke a few holes with a knife on the bottom of the pepper to let the juices out . Place the stuffed peppers on a cookie tray and put them in the oven. Because off all the juices of the peppers and the thickness of the meat, it can take a while to cook. I'd tend to say, check it in a half an hour to see if the meat is cooked all the way through, but it may need as much as an hour. Makes six bell pepper halves, but probably only serves three hungry men - it just depends. Mashed potatoes and a green salad go nicely with this meal too.

Poor Shepherds Easy Meat Pie
 
1 pound of lean ground beef.
2 carrots
1 onion
salt and pepper
garlic powder
basil
Corn starch And!
green beans and corn if you have them and if you like them (really, any two or more veggies will do)
Organic instant mashed potatoes (Costco carries a nice brand)
Cheese on top is optional
oven at 400 I think
 
Brown the meat with your spices and salt. Wash and chop chop chop your veggies - the smaller the better. Add water to your meat and pour in all your veggies. Make up two packages, or about four servings or more, of your instant potatoes according to it's own instructions.
 
Let your veggies and meat simmer until veggies are starting to get soft. Add in a goodly bit of corn starch to stiffen up your broth. Pour your meaty mix into a large pie pan and cover it up with mashed potatoes. (You can sprinkle cheese over the top of it too if you like) bake it until you start to see the tops of the potatoes are getting brown and or it starts to bubble over and make a mess of your oven. Enjoy!