(Or healthfully, if you prefer.) Spring is here, the sun is shining (today), and it’s time for lighter, more healthy food. (Also, Mrs. L.A. said if I didn’t start making healthier food, she was going to get scurvy.)
Tonight I sautéd a quarter of a red onion, cut into strips, in olive oil for about 10 minutes, then added about a tablespoon of minced garlic for about a minute. Next came a 14.5 oz. can of fire-roasted chopped tomatoes, a half-dozen or so chopped, smallish kalamata olives, half a dozen chopped sun-dried tomatoes, maybe 2 teaspoons of paprika, a couple of pinches of kosher salt, and 15 grinds from the tabletop-size black pepper grinder. I let it simmer a while before adding two hunks of cod, covered with some of the sauce, and cooked the spaghetti pasta. Turn the fish and put sauce on top and cook some more. Drain the pasta and return to the pan, and heat and toss with some more olive oil, a couple of chopped sun-dried tomatoes, minced garlic, and a pinch of salt. I put the pasta on one side of the plates, and the cod on the other side. I put sauce over both, and sprinkled feta over the pasta. Mrs. L.A. said it was really good, made nummy sounds, and commented that the fish was very moist. And it was relatively healthy, while not especially ‘light’ (except for the fish). 
Last week we had shaved beef salad. While it does contain meat, and the dressing is mayonnaise-based, there’s not a lot of either, so it’s fairly healthy – and light – too.
How about posting your ‘light and healthy’ recipes?
What? Nobody cooks healthy meals? 
Just made a nice ham and bean soup last weekend. With LOTS of veggies.
I had Bud Lite and a healthy serving of Twizzler bites for dinner last night. Does that count?
Reheated leftover rotisserie chicken with a side dish of green beans with onions, mushrooms, and almonds and Italian-style fresh bread.
Also been eating salads - 4 varieties of lettuce, artichoke hearts, black olives, green onion, carrot, mushrooms, cucumber, feta cheese, and Greek dressing. More of that Italian bread.
Current snack to eat at my breaks at work: mixed nuts, carrot sticks, cucumber slices.
Next up: planning a stir fry of chicken thighs, broccoli, water chestnuts, and mushrooms over brown rice. Reduced sodium soy sauce, garlic, and oil for the frying,
Reheated rotisserie chicken is good in salads.
But when I make a salad, it’s usually the shaved beef salad – unless we have some Spring mix or lettuce to use up, in which case it’s ‘Look in the fridge, and see what we can put in a bowl! Oh, look! Rotisserie chicken!’
I’m going to Trader Joe’s for lunch again. And once again I’ll have a Thai Chicken & Pasta Salad (330 kilocalories with the dressing), an apple, and a banana. I went to the doctor a few weeks ago for an infection. (To get rid of one, not to get one.) As soon as I got home, I checked the bathroom scale against the number on the doctor’s scale. A couple of weeks later I weighed myself again, to discover I’d lost five pounds. I thought I’d try eating food that isn’t fried, full of fat, dripping with cheese… You know, the good stuff… and see if I can lose more. Sure, we had freshly-grated hashbrowns, over-easy eggs, and bacon on Saturday, but I only had a half-portion for myself. And pancakes and bacon on Sunday. Oh, and the BBQ beef sandwiches and coleslaw on Friday and Saturday. Nevertheless, I’m down another two pounds since last Thursday.
So more healthy recipes for me! And Mrs. L.A. won’t get scurvy.
We’ve been trying to change our eating habits for the better lately. Not so long ago, we had a nightly gelato habit, but we’ve kicked it now and are eating salads every night before dinner. We’re also doing a lot of fruit smoothies.
I’ve given up sandwiches at lunchtime and the current lunch is one apple, one yogurt, and a Babybel cheese.
I’ve cut my drinking to two glasses of wine a night.
A recent healthy meal was cabbage cooked with ground beef and tomatoes, served over rice. It’s really very tasty!
However, I will note that if you eat cabbage for dinner and fiber cereal for breakfast, you are apt to lose a lot of weight very suddenly. :dubious:
I commute to Seattle twice a week. Both days last week, and today, lunch is a Thai Chicken & Pasta salad from Trader Joe’s, an apple, and a banana. (Yes, I really like the Thai salad.)
That does sound good. Like galumpkis without all of the hassle of assembling them. 
I rarely drink (I’ve had five bottles of Corona since Cinco de Mayo – and that’s an aberration), but the change in the weather makes me want to drink daiquiris and mojitos. So ethanol consumption will increase. 
Bought a watermelon and strawberries for this week’s fruit today - mmm!
Also bought some braunsweiger, which is a bit debatable as to whether or not it’s healthy. Occasional consumption of organ meat (pork liver is a significant component) can supply vitamins and minerals but of course there’s considerable fat there, too. Still, one must enjoy eating.