Meals in minutes: Quick and easy low calorie dinners

These fast weeknight suppers pack serious flavour without a ton of calories or fat. When healthy eating tastes this good, you won’t care what you’re missing

By Carolyn Lim Chua; Photographs by Yvonne Duivenvoorden

Updated November 2, 2012

Meals in minutes: Quick and easy low calorie dinners

Recipes

• Curried shrimp sauté

• Mediterranean chicken with capers

• Island pork with mango

• Asian salmon with bok choy

• Salsa chicken wraps

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