Showing posts with label Recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipe. Show all posts

Friday, May 3, 2013


Over 100 Quick and Easy Recipes 

all with preparation and cooking times of 30 minutes or less.  You must check out The World's Healthiest Foods.  This has to be the coolest website ever!  They have a "Recipe Assistant" that allows you to customize your search and select ingredients to include or exclude, and it will provide you with a list of recipes that meets your criteria.  How cool is that?!  There is a way to make multiple selections but I haven't been able to get that to work very well yet.  Oh well.




There are recipes for all the following categories:

Breakfast
Salad Entrees
Soups
Fish
Chicken and Turkey
Lean Meat
Vegetarian Entrees
Side Salad/Dressings
Side Vegetables
Desserts







Thursday, May 2, 2013

Green Smoothie for lunch


I make this green smoothie almost every day.  It is not only delicious but is packed with nutrient rich kale which I probably would not want to eat raw.  

Green Smoothie

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups green grapes
1/2 green apple
1/4 cup avocado
1/2 cup kale
1/2 cup spinach
1 scoop T7 protein drink
1 cup ice
1/2 cup water

Directions:
Put all ingredients in blender.  Mix well.  Enjoy. 

Nutrition:

Calories:  420
Protein:  28 g
Fiber:  11 g
Cholesterol:  10 mg
Calcium:  520 mg
Carbohydrates:  50 g
Fat:  15 g
Saturated Fat:  2 g
Sodium:  266
Vitamin A:  252 IU
Vitamin C:  55 mg
Iron:  2 mg


The fruit and avocado always go in first.  That fills half of the blender.


I stuff kale and spinich into the other half.  The veggies never get "measured".
Barely enough room left for ice but that's ok.  I blend it on low, using a spatula to shove it down.  Once it is blended I turn it up to high for at least 30 seconds.
Then it gets poured into my favorite glass.  I survived the Wild Mouse at Lagoon in Salt Lake City just so I could justify buying that mug.  All that's left is to drink and enjoy.  So so yummy!

Vegetarian baked beans and tofu crumbles on the menu tonight!

Wasn't too sure about this when I picked it up in Publix today.  Not even sure I want to be a vegetarian yet.  I am trying lots of new foods right now to figure out what I do want.  You will be the first to know when I do decide. 

I mixed the tofu and baked beans and heated in microwave.  I ate this along with one-half an apple and two tablespoons raw pumpkin seeds (MUFA).  Surprisingly it was quite good.  I really couldn't taste the tofu.  At least nothing tasted bad.  I have decided that maybe the texture and feel of food in the mouth plays a big role.  If it feels right it probably is ok.  That's just my theory.  Last night those tofu hot dogs looked like hot dogs, smelled like hot dogs but as I was eating them they didn't "feel" right.  I even mixed them into baked beans for beanie weenies.
424 calories, 19 g protein, 53 g carbs, and 14 g fat (most of that fat was MUFA)