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16 Beef Dinners That Can Help You Lose Weight

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Put the beef in your refrigerator to delicious use with one of these tasty dinners that can help you lose weight. Each meal is low in calories and high in fiber, so you can enjoy a lighter meal and stay satisfied, since fiber is super-filling. Recipes like our Spaghetti with Quick Meat Sauce and Mom's Chili are healthy ways to hit your nutrition goals.

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Chili-Topped Sweet Potatoes

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Transform ordinary baked potatoes into a full dinner with these chili-topped spuds. In this healthy recipe, we use sweet potatoes for an added nutrient kick. Sprinkle on extra toppings as you see fit--sliced scallions, chopped fresh cilantro, diced avocado and sliced jalapeños are all tasty choices.

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Spaghetti with Quick Meat Sauce

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Instead of opening a jar of sauce, try this easy spaghetti with meat sauce on a weeknight. Serve with steamed broccoli and garlic bread. The recipe makes enough for 8 servings. If you're serving only four for dinner, cook 8 ounces of spaghetti and freeze the leftover sauce.

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Beef Stroganoff

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A little tender beef goes a long way when it is supplemented with flavorful mushrooms and enriched with a robust sauce in this healthy beef stroganoff recipe.

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Mom's Chili

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This healthy basic beef chili recipe is well worth doubling so you can throw a batch in the freezer. Serve topped with diced red onion, sliced scallions, shredded cheese and your favorite hot sauce.

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Stuffed Pepper Soup

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Inspired by stuffed peppers, this soup is ready faster and with fewer dishes too! Have fun with the toppings—we top it with onion, Cheddar cheese and tortilla chips here, but salsa, sour cream and corn would also make stellar additions.

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Meatballs with Lemon-Garlic Orzo

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Here, a little of the lemon-garlic vinaigrette used to season the orzo also gets stirred into yogurt for a flavorful and creamy topping.

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Moroccan-Spiced Pot Roast and Veggies

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Pumpkin pie spice, cumin and cayenne pepper add Moroccan-inspired flavor to this slow-cooker pot roast dinner.

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Beef and Broccoli

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Tender beef top sirloin and broccoli in an Asian-inspired sauce is served over noodles for the taste of takeout from your own kitchen.

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Cowboy Beef & Bean Chili

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Anything but dainty, this healthy cowboy beef and bean chili recipe is hearty with the addition of mushrooms and beer. To keep the saturated fat low, we use one pound of ground beef and add whole-grain bulgur to boost the volume and fiber in this chili recipe. After all the ingredients are added to the pot, we like to slowly simmer our chili for close to an hour to develop the best flavor, but if you're in a hurry, reduce the liquid by half and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes.

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Cheesy Beef Enchilada Casserole

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This veggie-packed beef enchilada casserole is mild, so put out hot sauce and chopped jalapeños if you're feeding heat-seekers. The quick and easy dinner recipe makes extra cheese sauce--save it to make One-Pot Mac & Cheese with Cauliflower & Brussels Sprouts later in the week (see Associated Recipes) or serve it with steamed vegetables, such as broccoli, for an easy side dish.

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Old-Fashioned Spaghetti & Meatballs

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To stretch the ground beef, we use high-fiber bulgur and whole-wheat breadcrumbs in the meatballs, which are baked rather than fried.

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Skillet Chili Mac

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Poblanos add a kick of heat to this chili mac recipe. If that's not your thing, swap in green bell peppers to tone down the heat in this easy pasta dish, which mashes up mac and cheese and chili into a seriously satisfying skillet dinner.

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Beef & Bean Sloppy Joes

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This healthy copycat recipe of the comfort food classic trades beans for some of the meat to bump up fiber by 7 grams. We also cut back on the sugar and ketchup in this Sloppy Joe recipe makeover to save you 12 grams of added sugar.

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Instant Pot "Corned" Beef & Cabbage

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In this healthy corned beef and cabbage recipe, we cut back the sodium but kept the classic flavor profile of this St. Patrick's Day staple. An Instant Pot (or other multicooker) tenderizes the beef quickly, making this easy to pull off even on a weeknight.

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Italian Beef and Broccoli

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This delicious beef dinner can be on the table in under an hour. You'll enjoy the thinly sliced sirloin steak, broccoli and tomatoes served in a creamy spinach sauce over penne pasta.

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Philly Cheesesteak Burritos

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This may be your new favorite way to eat a Philly Cheesesteak. Enjoy the mouthwatering beef, cheese, peppers, and onions all wrapped up in a whole-wheat tortilla. This recipe can be eaten immediately or made ahead to enjoy later.

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    1 of 16 Chili-Topped Sweet Potatoes
    2 of 16 Spaghetti with Quick Meat Sauce
    3 of 16 Beef Stroganoff
    4 of 16 Mom's Chili
    5 of 16 Stuffed Pepper Soup
    6 of 16 Meatballs with Lemon-Garlic Orzo
    7 of 16 Moroccan-Spiced Pot Roast and Veggies
    8 of 16 Beef and Broccoli
    9 of 16 Cowboy Beef & Bean Chili
    10 of 16 Cheesy Beef Enchilada Casserole
    11 of 16 Old-Fashioned Spaghetti & Meatballs
    12 of 16 Skillet Chili Mac
    13 of 16 Beef & Bean Sloppy Joes
    14 of 16 Instant Pot "Corned" Beef & Cabbage
    15 of 16 Italian Beef and Broccoli
    16 of 16 Philly Cheesesteak Burritos

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