What is your favorite healthy meal?

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Do you like stuffed cabbage? I make kind of a deconstructed stuffed cabbage using ground turkey and just putting it all in one pot instead of stuffing cabbage leaves. Let me know you you'd like the recipe.

chilli (vegetarian chili in my case) is definitely high up on the list for me. i even eat it when it's 110F in the middle of the summer. i just crank up the a/c and sweat it out because i love it so much.

I'm in the same boat. I love chicken. It seems to be the best option. But im so tired of it. Hamburger is aweful in cal and fat. I get those boneless thin cut pork chops I either steam them in a skillet with garlic and onion powder. Or season them the same and bake them in the oven. Both are yummy especially if you like garlic.

My favourite fast day meal (I do the 5:2) is a couple of low fat sausages, tons of salad with low fat dressing and a splodge of low fat mayo. Comes in at around 210 calories if u buy the right sausages, very tasty and with lots of salad u get a good amount of 5 a day!

Here are two of my favorites.

During the weekdays, I bring my lunch to work. The night before, I cook a piece of salmon on the grill. About 15 minutes witht he skin side down. I put that in fridge and eat it cold the next day over some Quinoa. Simply Superior makes a steamable microwave package of Quinoa with sea salt and olive oil that has 400 calories in a bag. The salmon can vary, but generally it's about 160 calories for a quarter pound.

The next meal I am a huge fan of is salad! I start with spinch, add cherry tomatos, green peppers, mushrooms, and cucumbers, then I put some low-fat cottage cheese on top and use just a dash of lite Italian dressing.

93/7 ground beef burger. No bun, add sauteed mushrooms & onions with a side of spinach. Nomz nomz nomzzz.

2 Cups of spinach and baked turkey cutlet cooked together with 1 tbsp. of olive oil

Any white fish (defrosted frozen is fine) dredged lightly in flour and pan fried with a scant amount of oil (I use an oil sprayer). Serve with Salsa Verde (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/salsa-verde-1149) and boiled potatoes with a cucumber salad. You can make the salsa verde in big batches and freeze it. Also good on other meats.

A small steak with green salad and oven fries. For the oven fries cut up potatoes (you can leave the skins on), microwave for 3-5 minutes. Place in an oiled oven tray and spray with oil, or just toss in a little oil if you don't have a sprayer. Bake at 230C for 20 minutes, turning halfway.

I love home made turkey burgers & mango & avocado salsa.
So easy to make, freeze well and the fruity salsa stops my cravings for desert.

I love to cook & rarely measure, normally throw in things as I find them in my fridge.

Turkey Burgers:
Pack of ground turkey mince.
Half a red chilli, diced into little bits
Quarter green pepper, diced into little bits
Quarter red onion, diced into little bits
Coriander (or Cilantro if you're from the US)
Salt & pepper to season.

Mix it all up in a big bowl. Split out into burgers. I usually make 8 and freeze them.
Pop under the grill, or BBQ and cook until cooked through but still juicy.
You can serve as is, or sometimes I serve them 'protein style' - wrapped in a lettuce leaf with the salsa. I've even popped a slice of grilled haloumi cheese in there.

Mango salsa:
Half a Mango (or half a cup of frozen mango)
1/8 cup sweet corn (can use frozen)
1/2 avacado, cubed
1 tomatoe, diced
Red Chilli, as desired
Handful of fresh coriander (cilantro)
1 thick slice of red onion, diced into little bits
Half a fresh lime, squeezed
Salt & pepper.

I find this makes about 3 decent serves. 2 for dinner for my husband and myself and then a portion for lunch the next day.

Serve burgers with a Kale Salad, with a squeeze of lemon instead of dressing.

I also have a great recipe for Raw Chocolate.

Raw Chocolate is actually GOOD for you and tastes as good, if not better than the stuff packed with refined sugar.
I always have a batch in the fridge for when I get my chocolate cravings.
Your mould will determine the size and qty and therefore the calorie content.

The recipe is really simple and you can get the ingredients from any good health store:
1 cup raw cacao powder
3/4 extra virgin coconut oil
2 tbs Agave

If your coconut oil is solid, heat over a bowl of warm water until melted.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, pour into moulds and set/keep in the fridge.

Enjoy!

Could I have the recipe for that cajun chicken sausage burger? Sounds interesting.

Cool CousCous Salad - I make this all of the time and add chicken or tuna or salmon. Everyone LOVES it. So easy and makes a lot for many days. Its low calorie, has fiber, is filling and you can add any protein you want.

1 cup dry whole wheat couscous, prepared and cooled (I get at Trader Joe's)
1 large cucumber – diced
3 tomatoes, chopped (I use a pint of grape tomatoes and cut them in half)
1 can of chickpeas, rinsed and drained
¼ cup of red onion (my add)
4 oz. reduced fat feta cheese (last step)

Dressing:
¼ cup olive oil (original recipe used a ½ cup which is so unnecessary)
½ cup balsamic vinegar
2 tsp. honey (generous)
2 tsp. Dijon mustard (generous)
S&P to taste

Mix dressing with salad and refrigerate. Enjoy.

I first read that headline as "Who is your favorite healthy man?" Totally different kind of question.

I figure that variety is one of the bigger parts of health, changing things up so that you get foods that have different nutrients. I do most of my own cooking, though I don't go so far as to make my own pasta or sausage, mind you.

I've been making stuffed mushrooms on a fairly regular basis - stuffing consisting of mostly vegetable ingredients though I do use a little sweet italian sausage and some bread. Mushrooms have very few calories so that helps keeps the total count down and you can control most of the other "health" factors in your stuffing recipe choices.

I recently made a big post of soup. I started with a mix that had freeze-dried ingredients to which you were to add your own broth and chicken, but I took it a step further and added more water and a whole bunch of fresh vegetables as well. It was easy and good for 10 servings that were very convenient during a busy week. Only 190 calories per serving despite lots of chicken.

To answer the question that wasn't asked, though I had to Google healthy men, I'm middle aged so Dr. Oz would do.

You're gonna need to cook if you want eating healthy to be affordable!!

Turkey meatballs with diced basil, mushrooms and onions. In the oven for ~30 minutes at ~300. Put them in a clean (no high fructose corn syrup!) tomato sauce over spaghetti squash or whole wheat or gluten-free pasta, there ya go.

Echo the crustless quiches - bake them in muffin tins for breakfast.

Chicken salad/tuna salad/egg salad using low fat mayo and fruits & veggies for flavor (fruits like apples and craisins for chicken and tuna, veggies like green onion and celery for all of them)

Get sandwich thins or sprouted grain bread. Basically anything that will give you 2 pieces for under 120 calories, and always whole grain.

I know you eat a lot of chicken but try adding some pineapple salsa or slices of mango to a chicken breast.

Chicken sausage with anything - stir fry w/ veggies over brown rice or with tomato sauce over pasta.


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