Dinner is different. Different is.... good?

My husband and I are attempting to include more whole foods in our diet, as well. We're starting out slowly and easily by replacing regular spaghetti noodles, lasagna noodles and bread with whole wheat varieties. We also eat brown rice now instead of white rice. So far, I can't really tell that much of a difference and things taste pretty good, especially if they're seasoned well. I've been experimenting with different things on my own, but I like to look at a couple different online recipe websites for inspiration. There's even one that will allow you to enter a particular food (or foods) you have on hand and it'll give you a list of recipes you could make with it (them). It's pretty handy.

I get inspiration from cookbooks and some recipes I run across online. However, most of my cooking doesn't involve any written recipe. I just toss together whatever I think will work-- and it almost always does. It did take me a while to get to the point where I simply cooked; when I started out, I did obey recipes. Now, even if I have a recipe in front of me, it usually gets altered (often significantly). Easy things to do include roast veggies (roast carrots are absolutely wonderful!), whole wheat pasta with sauteed veggies and stews and soups (you can toss in whatever you want to/whatever needs used up).