Dinner ideas - Doug Hahn, Winnipeg

Dinner can be a tricky meal to plan.  If you had enough good fuel to eat after your training, you don't really need a big dinner.  While many of us tend to have our largest meal at dinner time, this shouldn't necessarily be the case.  You need to figure out what you have done during the day, the calories and fuel needed to complete those activities, and then go through what you have eaten during the day and compare it to the calories used.  Are you over?  Under?  How about carbs/fats/proteins?  But most importantly, how hungry do you feel?  A little hunger is fine, but if you are feeling famished, you need to have a better look at what you've eaten through out the day.

That's my long way of saying that dinner should be light, but enough to satiate you.  Tonight was orzo-stuffed peppers!  Each serving/pepper is 386 calories, 18g fat, 44g carbs, and 15g protein.  They were tasty and perfect for dinner.