Healthy Recipes Please

OK. So, I think the fun has officially been sucked out of cooking for me. As if it wasn't fun already with someone always disliking what we have for dinner, unless it is pizza or mac and cheese. Anyway, so, I eat way too much Sodium- almost twice the recommended daily allowance (which by the way is now 1500 mg a day instead of 2300- which is what the labels on the food read- which if you eat 2300 calories a day is fine, but I don't).

Anyway, Breakfast is easy if you have oatmeal or some other type of hot cereal.

Lunch seems impossible, as I used to love sandwiches. Tortillas and Bagels are horribly high in sodium (each having over 1/3 of the total daily allowance of sodium). Bread isn't even great. A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich has about 600 mg of sodium (again over a third). I love cheese, and that isn't horrible in small amounts, but not great.

And Dinner seems impossible, too. Spaghetti and sauce has about 400 mg of sodium with one serving without Parmesan cheese, and I usually eat more than one serving. Plus I love salads, but salad with dressing is also adding to the sodium level- and without dressing, is yucky. So if you have some good dressing recipes, pass them along.

All that, and the three glasses of milk at least that I need to drink to try to combat osteoporosis(each over 100mg of sodium per serving) adds to the total. Anyway, one day I did great and had under the 1500mg recommended allowance, but the next day I was so hungry, I did horribly. I need to not just be cutting things out, but replacing them with other things. I can do homemade bread and leave out the salt. I don't really salt things at the table, so I can't cut that out much. We don't eat frozen or pre-prepared meals, so it isn't like I can cut those out either.

If anyone has some truly healthy recipes- that my family will eat, please share.

Thanks

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