Healthy Recipes
Ingredients
5-6 bags caffeine-free herbal tea (e.g., peach, mint, chamomile, or fruit tea)
3 quarts boiling water
Stevia powder (or liquid) to taste
Directions
Pour water over tea bags in a large pot. Add stevia while tea is hot. (Adjust amount according to the desired sweetness.)
Let the tea cool, remove tea bags, transfer tea to a serving pitcher or individual water bottles, and refrigerate.
Healthy eating does not have to be boring. Even food you eat often like chicken and turkey can be spiced up to be delicious and healthy at the same time.
Enjoy this chicken recipe compliments of http://healthyurbaneating.com
Lemon Pepper Chicken with Turkey Sausage
4 legs of organic chicken
2 large Italian turkey sausage
1 teaspoon of crushed red pepper
1 tablespoon of garlic salt
Sea salt, black pepper to taste
2 lemons squeezed and two slices for garnish
Pre-heat oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Mix seasoning in a bowl. Place chicken and turkey sausage on a flat roasting sheet or pan. Sprinkle with half of seasoning. Cook 15 minutes. Remove and sprinkle with remaining seasoning. Continue basting and turning for 15 minutes and cook through. Turn once more then pour lemon juice over the legs and the sausage. Garnish with lemon slices.
From http://healthyurbaneating.com
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Healthy French Toast
There’s no need to give up some of your favorite foods in an effort to lose weight and keep it off. Here is one of my favorite weekend breakfast recipes that will still fit into your healthy eating plan.
You’ll see that all of the ingredients below are Diet Solution approved and completely healthy. How does it taste? Absolutely delicious. And that has been verified by my husband, my in-laws, my parents and several friends that have stayed at our house and enjoyed our Saturday morning ritual with us.
French Toast a la The Diet Solution
Ingredients:
2 slices Sprouted Grain, Spelt or Rice bread (we’ve tried using all of them and they all work well)
2 whole eggs
1 TBSP butter
Maple Syrup or Apple Sauce (no sugar added)
Cinnamon to taste
Directions:
Scramble the 2 eggs in a bowl large enough to fit one slice of bread. Dip the bread and make sure it is coated generously with the egg mixture. Heat a pan (on low to medium) large enough for 1 or 2 slices of bread and add the butter. Once the butter is melted in the pan (if it begins to turn brown, you have the heat up too high) add the bread coated with the egg mixture. Cook the bread on each side for 3-4 minutes covered (I find that covering the pan cooks the egg more evenly but you can cook it uncovered as well). Serve with maple syrup (1 tsp per slice is more than enough) or topped with apple sauce and cinnamon (that’s how I like mine.)
Is this a cheat meal or a meal “off” of my usual healthy eating? Not at all. All of the ingredients are wholesome and natural and fit right into mine (and your) healthy eating plan. If you need or want a bit more protein with your breakfast, you can add a piece of bacon, breakfast sausage or even another egg on the side.
Mini Vegetable Frittatas For Lunch
Ingredients:
- 8 large organic eggs
- ½ cup organic milk, preferably raw (I’m going to try and use coconut milk next time and see if that works since I don’t eat very much dairy, but I figured I would stick to the recipe exactly as it was written for the first time.)
- 1 Tbsp. butter
- 1 cup zucchini, diced
- 1 cup red pepper diced
- 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 leek diced
- ¼ cup fresh Italian flat leaf parsley, chopped finely
- 1 tsp. Celtic Sea Salt
- ½ tsp. black pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a large muffin tin with butter. Whisk eggs and milk together in a large missing bowl. Set aside.
Heat butter in a medium skillet or frying pan over medium heat. Place zucchini, red pepper, mushrooms and leek in a skillet and sauté until vegetables become soft, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in parsley, salt and pepper. Fold vegetables into egg mixture.
Fill muffin cups three-quarters of the way full with vegetable frittata batter. Bake 20 to 30 minutes until frittatas are set and browned on top.
Serve hot or let cool and store in the fridge for later.
Makes 8 to 10 mini vegetable frittatas.
Yummy!
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Homemade Guacamole
Healthy Guacamole Recipe
I absolutely love gauacamole as an appetizer or an addtion to pretty much any meal (even breakfast!)
I know some people still avoid avocados because they are high in fat and think that this higher fat fruit will cause them to gain weight. But as I explain in my article “Does Fat make you Fat?”, healthy fats like those contained in avocadoes do not cause weight gain. They do just the opposite. Eating sources of healthy fats will actually help your body burn off its unwanted fat and avocados fall right into the “healthy fat” category.
Here is my quick and easy homemade guacamole recipe that we enjoy at my house at least 2-3 times per week.
Isabel’s Homemade Guacamole
· 2 Avocados
· ½ tomato chopped
· ¼ onion, chopped (you may want to use less. I had onion breath
the rest of the night. Even my dogs didn’t want to talk to me)
· Chopped cilantro (I’m not sure how much went in there, but it was
loaded)
· Celtic Sea Salt
I mixed all the ingredients together. While I was chopping the
contents of the guacamole I sliced up some cucumbers and tomatoes
and got out a bag of baby carrots. This is what I used for the
guacamole instead of chips.
Now, if you really want to use chips, I suggest making some spelt
chips yourself.
Cut 1-2 spelt tortillas into 4-6 pieces. Cook these in coconut oil
until crisp. I don’t suggest you have these too often, as many
people will lose weight faster without too many grains.
Enjoy!
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Taco Seasoned Beef Low Carb Dinner
Beef Taco Recipe
I know what it feels like to work a long day, walk into the house exhausted, only to have a bunch of starving eyes staring at you asking “What’s for dinner?” As much as I would like to just respond “I don’t know, whatever you cooked for me I guess”, that’s often not how it works. I always keep a couple a super easy and fast recipes on hand or in my brain to solve the dinner dilemma in 10 minutes flat.
Here’s an “emergency” dinner solution my family absolutely loves. We sometimes even make it in non-emergency situations when we are feeling like a bit of “Mexican”.
Taco Seasoned Beef or Buffalo
1 pound ground grass fed Beef or Buffalo (both work great)
2 Tablespoons Do-it-Yourself Taco Seasoning
Do-it-Yourself Taco Seasoning Recipe (Great to make ahead of time and always keep on hand)
6 Tablespoons Chili Powder
2 Tablespoons Cumin
4 Tablespoon Paprika
3 Tablespoons Onion Powder
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
1 Teaspoon cayenne pepper (this makes it spicy. add more or less depending on how you like it)
(I know there are many stores that even carry ready-made taco seasoning. I have tried a few of these and some are tasty but I still prefer my easy to make, home-made version.)
Sautee the ground beef or buffalo in a large pan. I often don’t even need to add any oil as the natural fats in the meat help it cook without sticking. Make sure to stir and cut up the meat in small pieces with your spatula as it cooks. Once the meat is cooked through, add 2 Tbsp of the above Taco Seasoning (or Taco Seasoning of your choice.)
What can you do with this taco seasoned meat? I love to put it over a large salad of romaine lettuce, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers and celery and add salsa on top. My husband loves to put it on Sprouted Grain Tortillas, Spelt Tortillas or Rice Tortillas that we purchase at our local health food store. A good friend of mine uses large leaves of Romaine Lettuce and makes “Lettuce Taco Wraps”. If you have a bit of time, you can even add some fresh guacamole to your salad or wrap.
Oh, and did I mention this taco meat freezes and re-heats really well? You can make a big batch and freeze in smaller containers for later use.
Garlic Mashed Cauliflower that I want you to believe are Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients
·1 head of cauliflower
·1 small onion (red or yellow)
·1-2 TBSP organic butter
·1-2 cloves of garlic (this will depend on your taste)
Directions
Steam or boil the cauliflower. Chop the onion and sauté it with either olive oil, butter or coconut oil. (My sister used olive oil. I used butter).
Add the cooked cauliflower to the sautéed onions and sauté together for approximately 8 minutes.
Take the cauliflower and onion sauté and puree in a food processor or blender. Add a tablespoon or more of butter and blend.
Take 2 cloves of garlic and chop them up into small pieces. Add more olive oil, butter or coconut oil to pan and cook the garlic until brown (but try not to burn it).
Pour the garlic into your mashed cauliflower and mix by hand.
