Favorite Healthy Recipes

[xaeniac]

All does anyone have any healthy favorite recipes? I will start.

Breakfast Shake
1/4-1/2 scoop of frozen blueberrries
1/4 banana
1/4 scoop of oatmeal
1 scoop of Elite Whey Protein Isolate Vanilla
6-8 oz of milk

mix in blender add ice

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

matters how one defines healthy .... I jsut want low carb, low calorie with some awareness of keeping crap out of my body. For example, I prefer steak but eat more chicken/turkey than I would have several years ago because red meat is generally not as good for you.

Some threads from the past...

*** Offical Low Carb, High Protein Cooking thread ***
http://208.65.201.106/showthread.php?t=2173870

Low calorie, high protein foods
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=243734

Can anyone recommend low carb - high protein meals?
http://208.65.201.106/showthread.php?t=2130363

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

One of the best (and healthiest) breads I ever made:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/dees-health-bread/detail.aspx

You can add some wheat germ and flax seed and various other seeds to make it even better. I have thought about adding a small amount of smashed banana to this recipe but never have.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Oh, what kind of oatmeal do you use? (rolled oats, old fashioned oats?) Do you need to cook the oatmeal first so it is softer? I never understood proper preparation for shakes like the one you describe.

 

[xaeniac]

Oh, what kind of oatmeal do you use? (rolled oats, old fashioned oats?) Do you need to cook the oatmeal first so it is softer? I never understood proper preparation for shakes like the one you describe.

No you don't cook the oatmeal. I have used the 5 minute oats and the quick oats. I prefer the 5 minute oats. Blend them up with the shake. I found it adds substance and body to the shake .

 

[Kaido]

No you don't cook the oatmeal. I have used the 5 minute oats and the quick oats. I prefer the 5 minute oats. Blend them up with the shake. I found it adds substance and body to the shake .

I was just reading the other day about "overnight oatmeal" - pour the milk into a bowl of oats, put in fridge overnight, eat the next day with fruit & nuts. Supposed to be pretty good, if you remember to do it the night before.

 

[Kaido]

All does anyone have any healthy favorite recipes?

I do a Sweet Potato Smoothie for meal #2, usually around 6:30am or so. Really easy & tasty.

Ingredients:
1. 1/2 a large Sweet potato
2. 1.5 cups Vanilla almond milk
3. Pumpkin pie spice (to taste)

* McCormick sells a pre-made pumpkin pie spice mix - it has cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. Cinnamon works too, and it's also good without any spices added.

* I think vanilla almond milk tastes the best. However, soymilk has more protein (7 to 9 grams, depending on the brand). Lately I've been using "Very Vanilla Soymilk" by Silk (without any added spices) and it's pretty good, although it has 16 grams of sugar per cup (8 grams for vanilla and 1 gram for unsweetened). If you want to go the unsweetened milk route, adding some honey is also really tasty (about 17 grams of sugar per tablespoon).

Directions:

1. Cook sweet potato. I use a large one - wash it, poke holes in it with a fork or knife, and microwave for 3 minutes per side, plus another minute (7 minutes total for a big one). I use half for one drink, and usually eat the other half with lunch.

2. Remove the skin & put the half the sweet potato in the blender (or the whole one if you're hungry). If you cut it in half length-wise, you can just squeeze it out, otherwise just use a spoon - faster than cutting off the skin with a knife.

3. Cover the sweet potato with vanilla almond milk, add some pumpkin pie spice, and blend well.

4. Pour the mix into a cup. Add another half a cup of vanilla milk. Stir with a butter knife. Add straw. Enjoy.

It's best cold. Usually blending will cool the sweet potato down if you just cooked it, and adding more milk after you pour it will make it cool. Otherwise you can add some ice or cook the sweet potato beforehand and put it in the fridge. Tastes best colder.

With soymilk, this also makes a nice protein supplement. Westsoy brand soymilk has 9 grams of protein per cup and Silk has 7 grams of protein per cup; my recipe uses 1.5 cups. A large sweet potato has 4 grams of protein; my recipe uses half of one. So one drink can have between 12 and 15 grams of protein - sort of an all-natural, great-tasting protein shake! If you eat it as a side to a protein meal (like tuna or chicken), it's an easy way to get your protein requirement in, without having to use a processed energy bar or a protein shake.

 

[episodic]

3 free range eggs

3 slices of bacon.

Fry bacon.
Whisk eggs pour into pan you fried bacon in
Crumble bacon into eggs.

Omelette !

 

[jsedlak]

Chicken in Panko & Seasoning, pan fried. On a salad of baby spinach and romaine with goat cheese, parmesan and black olives with light italian seasoning.

Pan fry the chicken in olive oil after dressing (coated in eggs + milk and then put in seasoning for a shake).

High in protein, greens, sodium.
Should be pretty low in fat.

 

[Semidevil]

I just do chicken breast, pan fry with some ground pepper. no oil. add asparagus on a bed of spinach..