Recipe ideas Help!!!

What kind of kitchen situation are you working with?

Go on MarksDailyApple.com and check out the site/forums/articles. His style of eating for losing weight is great. I'm using his formula for weight loss found in the book The Primal Blueprint. My own MyFitnessPal goal settings are as follows:
1900 calories per day. Weight loss of 1 pound per week.
20% Carbs
20% protein
60% fat
If you do this you will not be adding sugars to your foods.
You should make sure to eat 80-90 g protein per day if you are doing exercise.
No matter what you are limiting carbs to 50-100 per day if you want to lose body fat.
I don't watch my weight, rather I periodically check my body fat percentage i.e. lean body mass.
Use the Weekly progress on MyFitnessPal. It's okay to skip a meal to "fast" periodically, or eat all your food before 3-4 pm and then not eat a "dinner." But, aside from that, eat food within 30 minutes of waking up and then maintain insulin levels throughout the day--best done with 3 meals and 2 snacks at regular on-time intervals and protein at each meal.

I will be posting some of my own recipes in this forum as I can. Try half avocado as your fat base for your smoothie--it's a super nutritious food. Try learning to make Miso from fresh miso paste. You can get a taste of it from a Sushi restaurant. Add sprouted soy tofu chunks and some seaweed. Try salads (best with spinach and baby greens) with white balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Canned fish like salmon, and sardines tuna are super nutritions. Shrimp cocktail is easy. Try making a grain-free granola with just unsweetened coconut flakes, slivered almonds and you can put that on your PLAIN yogurt but sweeten it with something natural like honey or use calorie free choice of one of these: Truvia/NOW GMO-free erythritol/KAL brand stevia extract powder.
Blue Diamond Unsweetened varieties of Almond Milk beverage are low calorie. Add instant coffee for a "treat".

My recipe I posted this week in this forum on MyFitnessPal for Thai Boats can be adapted to be easy and tasty if you like Asian flavors and this will pack in vegetables and protein. I LOVE this recipe! That's why I took the time to share it here. Feel free to friend me on here if you think it will help you get more ideas. My NewsFeed shows that I posted recipes.

Also check out SpunkyCoconut blog.
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Make a list of YOUR favorite simple recipes that you can return to again and again throughout the years as you "forget" and then return to eating healthy again. I see about 2 seasons per year: Winter and Summer. So you might have 2 folders for recipes and as the weather begins to turn you pull out from the other folder more often. 6 months later you may have forgotten what you did the last time it was cold/hot weather.


1 large, ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups pineapple chunks, fresh or frozen
1 egg yolk (preferably free-range, organic)
1 cup coconut milk
2 teaspoons lime juice
2 ice cubes (can be eliminated if using frozen pineapple)

Avocado and Pineapple Smoothie utensils preparation 5 minutes | users servings 1

If you need an extra energy boost, add a scoop of whey protein powder.

Purée all ingredients (except ice cubes) in a blender until smooth. Add ice cubes if desired.

Note: This recipe calls for a raw egg yolk from a pastured chicken. The risk of salmonella infection from raw pastured yolks is very small, but if you’re concerned about it you can omit the egg yolk. Do not use a raw egg yolk from commercially raised eggs sold in the supermarket

Do you like potato salad? I've got a low carb alternative called cauliflower salad. Preheat oven to 400 and chop up a head of cauliflower into bite size pieces. Mix it together with 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil, 2 cloves of garlic, a little salt (I use a substitute called No Salt), and pepper. Spread it on a foil lined baking sheet for 20 minutes. Let it cool. Now mix the cooled cauliflower with 1/2 cup fat free mayo, 1/2 cup of fat free sour cream, green onion, and paprika. You can also add shredded cheddar and bacon. I don't because of the sodium content. It tastes almost exactly like potato salad.