Spoonful of Sugar Free

Registered Dietitian

Easiest Dinner

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Great to hear about all of your in-a-rush breakfast recipes, but what about dinner?

My vote goes towards stir fries, like the one I had last night. My basic stir-fry recipe is as follows:

Your Basic Brown Rice Stir Fry

~Stir fries are easy, quick, healthy, filling, and tasty! 

  • Cooked Brown Rice
  • Chopped Vegetables (any leftovers you have in the fridge will do. For this batch I used carrots, garlic, onion, bell pepper,
  • Protein (tofu, beans, meat, eggs. For this batch I used scrambled eggs and toasted white beans)
  • Oil to grease pan (I used sesame oil)
  • Soy sauce (or any other oriental seasonings you may have)
  • Optional: chopped peanuts or sesame to top
I didn’t provide measurements because that is the whole point of stir-fries! You can put whatever you want in them, and make it for however many people you want. It makes a simple dinner for one, and a filling, inexpensive dinner for 15! Simply grease a pan, mix ingredients, and stir until golden.
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In other news, check out my tire:
While driving home the other day, my tire blew up. I didn’t just have a flat tire-it blew up! Have you ever seen such a crazy thing?

Thought-provoking, mind-prodding question of the day:

What are your favorite in-a-hurry dinner recipes?

And have you ever blown up a tire like mine? Or done any other crazy things to your vehicle? Give me your stories!

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  1. I had been planning a stir fry post as well because they are my favorite easiest dinner. I’m always just cooking for one, so it’s so easy and quick. I usually start with bacon, add mushrooms and onions and brussel sprouts, dijon mustard, then top it all with a fried egg, and sometimes a sweet potato on the side. That’s my standard go-to!

  2. Your tire blew up! Scary! Glad you are OK.

    Love the stir-fry…it’s funny, because my Dad’s “famous” stir fry is NOT this quick and easy, but that’s only because he’s my Dad…and everything is just a tad bit more complicated in the kitchen! 🙂

    I love taking a bag of frozen veggies, cooking it up really quick, then throwing on store-bought tomato sauce (or plain tomato sauce that I jazz up quickly with seasoning). Combining that with some sort of protein and perhaps noodles…it’s kind of an “Italian stir-fry” of sorts.

    • Haha…yeah, I didn’t really notice it at first. I heard a clunk, clunk, clunk in my bag, and I saw a bit of smoke in my rearview mirror, and I was like “what is that clunking noise?” Finally, I figured out my tire completely blew up.

      Who says a stir fry has to be Oriental? Italian stir fry sounds delicious!

      P.S. Dad’s make everything more complicated 😛

  4. Jeez, that’s crazy about your tire. Hopefully you weren’t hurt when it happened.

    Fried rice is one of my favorite go-to quick dinners. I simply use leftover rice and whatever vegetables I can scrounge from my kitchen. I make a sauce out of mustard, ginger, garlic, soy sauce and sriracha sauce to use, and that is key to me for making a great fried rice.

    • Don’t worry, I was fine 😀 Nothing exciting happened…other than the blown up tire!

      And I will have to try that stir-fry sauce! It sounds really good. Thanks for the recipe.

  7. When I’m hungry and in a hurry, I just throw together 1 leafy green and two other vegetables with some protein and fats (oils, nuts, etc). Bam! Balanced meal. :p No tire blow ups- how scary!!

  12. I like your practical, delicious and healthy approach to stir-frying. Brown rice is almost a meal in itself – so hearty, textured and flavourful. Add in some sesame oil, veggies, ginger and tofu and there you have it: a gorgeous, satisfying meal!

  15. sorry don’t get you see sugar free yet you have soy sauce, which has about 3 different sugars, do you have a stir fry sauce that does not need soy?