Jokes aside I love to eat, and I love to fuel my body appropriately. I see the body as a really incredible machine and want to put nothing less than high octane fuel in it. I know, I know, eating healthy is "so hard" and "it doesn't taste as good" and "damnit I just love pizza!" There is a time and place for pizza, but it isn't every day unless you're making cauliflower pizza which is a whole 'nother topic. After about 2 weeks of cutting out extra salt, sugar, etc. your pallet will start to change and you will start tasting things differently. All this means is, yes, these new foods will taste funny for a little bit. Stick it out and you'll find that there are tons of flavors waiting for you to savor!
Enough talk, let's get down to the good stuff. Mainly this meal:
Oh man...both delicious and visually pleasing. Woo!
Pictured on top is Baked and Mashed Sweet Potato and Roasted Eggplant and Onion with Thyme. On the bottom is Zuchinni Noodles and Turkey Meatballs. Ready for the recipes...I know you are!
Baked Sweet Potato
Ingredients: Organic Sweet Potato*
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 420 degrees F. Wash and allow to dry (mostly dry at least) each potato.
2. Using a fork poke holes in your potato to vent.
3. Bake at 420 for 30 minutes. Turn each potato and bake for another 30-40 minutes or until you can put a knife fairly easily through it.
4. Remove from oven, allow to cool, and take the skin off (should come off pretty easily) and mush.
I portion mine out to 133g per serving which ends up to
Calories:114
Carbs: 27g
Fat: 0g
Protein: 2g
Roasted Eggplant and Onion
Ingredients:
1Eggplant, diced
1 sweet onion, chopped
1-2 TBSP thyme (dried or fresh)
1-2 TBSP Olive Oil
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Toss eggplant and onion in olive oil
3. spread on a pan or glass bake dish and sprinkle with thyme
4. Bake for 12-15 minutes
WARNING: Baked thyme smells amazingly delicious.
At about 6 servings per recipe it comes to:
Calories: 71
Carbs: 10g
Fat: 4g
Protein: 1g
Zucchini Pasta
Ingredients:
4 Zuchinni
1/4c Grated Parmesean Cheese
1/2 Lemon
1/2 TBSP Minced Garlic
Melinda's Habeñero Pepper Sauce**
Directions:
1. Using the poorly named Veggetti (or any spiral slicer) slice zucchini into "noodles"
2. In a large pan slightly cook the zucchini to get any excess water out of it, but mostly to heat it up. (you don't have to do this)
3. toss in remaining ingredients.
Makes about 5 servings
Calories: 179
Carbs: 13g
Fat: 14g
Protein: 4g
Turkey Meatballs
Ingredients:
1 lb 99% Lean ground turkey meat
1-2 tbsp hot pepper relish
1 tbsp ground flax seed
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Grease the sides of a muffin tin
3. Mix ingredients in a large bowl (DO NOT OVERMIX)
4. LIGHTLY pack meatballs into even balls and place them in muffin tin
5. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until done
This makes about 4 4-5oz servings (3 balls each)
Calories: 155
Carbs: 3g
Fat: 3g
Protein: 28g
NOTES: The more you pack your meatballs the more tough they become. If you pack them lightly (just get them into a roughly round shape) they will be incredibly tender. Same goes for burgers.
* I don't always buy organic, and if it's not available you don't have to, but I have noticed that organic sweet potatoes have better flavor and color.
**Melinda's is the best hot sauce ever. Fact.
Total calories and stuff for the whole meal are around
Calories: 519
Carbs: 52g
Fat: 20g
Protein: 35g
Which is 40%, 34%, 26% if you are counting. I am currently only eating 4 meals a day so this works for me. Remember this calorie content is kind of a ballpark. I use my fitness pal to put in these recipes and not software like ESHA (because it costs a TON), so they may be off by a little bit. Enjoy.
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