can you healthify junk or fast food?

To you, what makes the food you like "unhealthy"? Why isn't there room in your diet for it if you otherwise you eat mostly nutrient dense foods?

Just search for 'healthy 'whatever you crave' on google.

What specifically do you want? Burgers are easy to make healthy, flat bread buns for lower calories, lean meat, etc. You can make nachos with a small amount of chips and cheese but lots of chicken, black beans, tomatoes, guacamole, olives, etc. I will eat just plain chicken breasts with buffalo sauce when I'm craving buffalo wings. Turkey hotdogs aren't bad, you could even top them with turkey chilli and use a whole wheat bun. Thin crust pizza with less cheese and lots of veggies, maybe turkey pepperoni.

Or you can just occasionally squeeze in small servings of the fast food you like.

Cauliflower pizza dough was surprisingly good. I recently experimented with using thick slices of eggplant (grilled) for burger buns and they were surprisingly not disgusting.

I make healthier nachos; sweet potato wedges baked in the oven with cumin, cayenne pepper, paprika and cinnamon topped with shredded chicken breast, quorn or turkey mince in passata and spices. Then I add in homemade guacamole, salsa and some grated cheddar (here I go full fat because I feel like you can use less as it has better flavour).

I made calzones the other day too: made a basic dough with flour, an egg, salt, water and a little honey to sweeten. I put passata, chicken, red onion, peppers and grated cheese on and folded it over and baked it in the oven and served with a spinach salad.

My boyfriend is anti-healthy food and LOVES both of these meals.

The calzone sounds delicious! But the first one wouldn't be nachos but potato wedges with what you just said :P

Just search for healthier versions of the foods you like, instead of fried potatoes, roast or bake them. instead of hamburgers from mcdonalds make them at home with whole wheat buns and or eat them without bread all together if your doing low carb. there are so many little changes you can make or add to fast foods to make them slightly to moderately healthier.

I'm personally anti "healthy junk food" because however you turn it, it's just not the same. Even a burger, with lean meat is just not the same. You need to have a nice fatty meat patty for it to be right. Low fat cheese can be called anything but cheese, and only the fattiest sour cream or mayo will pass my lips. Sweet potatoes are too sweet for a vegetable, so I'll stick to regular, and yes I will deep fry them. Diet soda is the exception because I don't drink soda often and I rarely crave it, so diet soda tastes close enough to pass.

Don't get me wrong, I do make A LOT of healthy stuff, even healthy stuff that resemble junk food and taste good, but I would never call them a "healthified whatever", because even though they taste good they don't satisfy the cravings for a particular dish.

Short answer, no you can't healthify junk food. Not if you want a particular something. You can cook plenty of other healthy (read lower calorie) meals that are exceptionally good, though.

Yep. You can always make your favorite "unhealthy/junk food" healthier. Just by making something at home, automatically qualifies it as "healthier". I love chocolate...make roasted chickpeas with cocoa or cinnamon.

I only tried roasted chickpeas yesterday...this sounds amazing....do you literally just mix the cocoa powder with the chickpeas and roast in oven for 30 mins? xx

Flat bread pizza just isn't pizza.

But make your own crust, use your own topping, put less cheese.

i'm creative.
open mind
new foods.

You say it all right here.

This is where it goes from a "diet" to a fun hobby where you can learn a lot and really surprise yourself.

Sure, google recipes, but don't be afraid to stray, that's where the magic happens.