My food recipes and ingredients

I have been requested to provide a more detailed explanation of my food prep, so here it is! Meats can be prepared several different ways such as grilling, baking, sautéing, using a slow cooker, etc. This is simply how I prefer my food to be cooked. I keep it very simple, using only seasonings, salts and some butters. I do cook with real butter, I just watch the portions. I don't like margarine as I feel it just a bowl of chemicals! I use butter spray sparingly for the same reason. It's not real food.

Please feel free to ask any questions if any of this is unclear! So here goes, this is what I cook weekly:

Turkey patties-I use lean ground turkey to make patties and cook on stovetop using Italian seasoning, garlic salt, black pepper.

Chicken- I buy frozen chicken strips and cook these on the stove top. Leave the pan lid on so that the steam will thaw the frozen middle of the chicken better. I use different seasonings depending on what I feel like making that day. For example, I use blackened seasoning, Mrs. Dash salt free seasoning, grill mates, or garlic powder. Or you can just make them with nothing and toss them in Frank’s red hot wing sauce to make skinless buffalo wings!

 



Chicken strips on the left and tilapia on the right

Tilapia, Mahi or any white fish- I like to use flavored sauté butters, but I make sure to cut the butters in halves or smaller because they have a lot of flavor and a lot of calories! I will usually sauté about 5 filets on the on stovetop at a time. Tilapia can also be baked with lemon and black pepper, or even lime or fresh minced garlic.

 



Green beans- I buy frozen green beans and either microwave or boil them, these directions are usually on the bag.

Rice- I buy the minute steamer bags. These are simple as can be. You just microwave the whole bag for 10 minutes and you’re done!

Protein pancakes- The recipe for these is  ½ cup oats, ½ tbsp baking powder, 1 scoop vanilla protein, ½ cup almond milk, ½ cup egg whites, (and if you want you can add vanilla extract, fruit, berries, or bananas). Mix oats, protein and baking powder into a blender to make a powder, then add milk, egg whites, vanilla or fruit and blend those together to make a batter. This makes 3 pancakes.

Mashed sweet potatoes- I take about  4-5 sweets and bake them for 1 hour on 450. Before cooking I cut off the ends of the sweet and poke holes in it. This helps get the heat in the potato better. Then while im cooking it, I flip them over after about 40 minutes. When they’re done, I mash them with a potato masher and put in them in a big bowl. I add butter to these only because it’s my husband that eats most of them. You don’t have to use anything though because the potatoes are soft and moist enough to mash on their own.

Apples-I chop and peel apples and use lemon juice to keep from turning brown.

Hummus- my recipes for hummus is 1 can garbanzo beans/chickpeas, ¼ cup of the liquid from the can (depending on consistency) , 3 garlic cloves, 3 tbsp lemon, 1 tbsp olive oil, cayenne pepper. Simply blend all this together in a food processor or blender. If you don’t like it spicy, then leave out the cayenne, if you want it to be thick then use less than ¼ cup of bean juice and if you don’t like garlic then only do 2 cloves. This is just the recipe my family likes J

 





Breakfast- ¼ cup dry oats, with cinnamon and truvia, 1 egg and 4 egg whites. I portion these two things ahead of time. In the morning I cook the oats for 1 min then add 1 tbsp natural peanut butter and ½ scoop of chocolate protein. Then I scramble my eggs and put butter spray on them.

 

Kale and spinach- I buy usually one of these fresh per week. I dry them out and grind it up in a food processor so it makes the leaves very small and almost like a garnish. What I do is sprinkle the ground up leaves onto various foods such as salads, omelets, and wraps. This adds TONS of extra vitamins and antioxidants onto my food without making it feel like I’m eating grass!

Steaks- I season a sirloin with Montreal steak seasoning and cook it in lea and perrins. I cook it a little more rare than I like it because when I heat it up in the microwave it will cook it up one more notch.

Peppers, Jalapeños- I like to grill bell peppers, poblano peppers and jalepenos then cut them up and separate them into their own baggies or containers. Then I can garnish salads, wraps and chicken with them and they’re already grilled and ready to go!

Eggs- I either boil or bake whole eggs so that I can use these whites as a topping for salads or even just eat them by themselves as a snack! When you bake eggs, they turn out the same as a boiled egg.

·         I use my magic bullet to blend and chop ALL my food! I have both a blender and food processor and they don’t work half as well so if your food doesn’t come out right using either of those machines, it may not be you, it may be what you’re cooking it with!

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