If you want to eat healthy and lose weight, prepare your own low fat, low-kilojoule fare at home. Minimize your time in the kitchen, with these delicious recipes.

Research shows only 52 percent of us use our stoves on a daily basis, compared to nearly 70 percent in 1985. People who do cook are more likely to opt for a frozen dinner or a one-pot dish than bother making an entire home-cooked meal. But there’s a price to pay for all that restaurant fare. Restaurant and commercially prepared food is often loaded with saturated fat, excess salt, sugar and MSG. And serving sizes are so large you wind up eating for two. Become a restaurant regular and by summer you could be ordering a supersize — bikini!

If you want to eat healthy and lose weight, preparing your own low fat, low-kilojoule fare at home makes the most sense. To minimize your time in the kitchen and supermarket, try these delicious recipes:

1. Chicken and root vegetable stew

2. Garlic tomatoes with ricotta and arugula

3. Mandarin Orange & Pineapple Parfait

4. Super speedy pasta and bean soup

5. Cherry-vanilla breakfast smoothie

6. Asian quickie stir fry dinner

7. Middle eastern-style spinach salad

8. Quick and easy chicken wraps

9. Presto pesto pasta

10. Soy smoothie