At Work and Have 5 Minutes to Find Something Good for Dinner Tonight?

If you're like me, it's often in that hour or so before lunch that your thoughts turn to food. Since what I have for lunch is never very exciting, I usually find myself heading for the web to find something new and fun--and healthy and cheap--and preferably with ingredients I already have--to make for dinner. Here are some of my favorite places to go, and some other great recommendations I've gathered along the way.

Online Recipe Sources:

• Many rave reviews for the Six o'Clock Scramble, a weekly email newsletter that "provides five family-tested dinner recipes and a corresponding grocery list to its subscribers. Most take 30 minutes or less to prepare and have fewer than ten ingredients." Six months of menus and grocery list for $26.50.
• Along the same idea, menu-mailers from Leanne Ely at Saving Dinner. This one includes 6 recipes each week, and you can select a "theme" (vegetarian, frugal, crock pot, heart-healthy, etc.) for your recipes. Her site has lots of freebies as well. She doesn't provide the grocery list, and a 6 month subscription costs $17.95. A 3 month trial subscription is $9.95.
• For a free weekly newsletter, try Eating Well, which also has searchable recipe archives. Here's a sampler of their Seasonal Desserts. Okay, desserts aren't exactly the point here, but what's a good dinner without a good dessert to follow?
  
• Moosewood Restaurant Cookbook and online recipe archive is a good source for low-fat, often vegetarian recipes.
• My fave TV channel (or one of them!), The Food Network. If you're a fan of The Next Food Network Star, here's where to find the recipes they made this season.
  
• www.allrecipes.com is also a great site with good search capabilities--you can even list the ingredients you want to use, and the ones you don't want, and see what pops up. So, if you want a great quiche recipe but hate mushrooms, just list eggs as an ingredient you want and mushrooms as one you don't, and voila!
  
• Try the advanced search at www.cookinglight.com. They have zillons (okay, thousands at least) of delicious, healthy recipes.
• If you're looking for fancier fare, try Epicurious, the online home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines. Or head over to the Epicurean recipe exchange--search by main ingredients here as well, always helpful.