A healthy take on a Thai lettuce wraps recipe that takes about 10 minutes to make. Ten minutes, people! First, let me tell you that if you like cauliflower even a little bit, you’ll love this recipe. If you hate cauliflower, you’ll be able to tolerate this recipe, and possibly even enjoy it. These wraps taste good on their own, but they taste really quite amazing with a drizzling of REAL FOOD Asian dressing.

Approx 4 Servings

Ingredients

1 head cauliflower
2 avocados
1/4 cup chopped peanuts
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dried dill
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 head iceberg, romaine OR butter head lettuce

Directions

Chop, chop, chop the cauliflower or place in food processor until it’s very finely diced. Then do the same with the avocados, and stir the avocado and the cauliflower together in a large bowl. Add the peanuts and seasoning and mix until well-incorporated. Spoon cauliflower filling into lettuce leaves. Serve as-is or dip in a whole food Asian dressing.

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Instead of batter-dipped, deep-fried nuggets, we coat chicken tenders in a seasoned almond and whole-wheat flour crust and then oven-fry them to perfection. With half the fat of standard breaded chicken tenders, you can enjoy to your (healthy) heart’s content.

Serves Approx 4

Try this fun recipe out for a healthy snack recipe that can take the place of typical junk food!  Serves approx 4:

Ingredients:

• 1 apple
• 1 banana
• 1/3 c. red seedless grapes
• 1/3 c. green seedless grapes
• 2/3 cup pineapple chunks
• 1 cup nonfat yogurt
• ¼ c. dried coconut, shredded

Utensils:

• knife (you’ll need help from your adult assistant)
• 2 wooden skewer sticks
• large plate

Directions:

1. Prepare the fruit by washing the grapes, washing the apples and cutting them into small squares, peeling the bananas and cutting them into chunks, and cutting the pineapple into chunks, if it’s fresh. Put the fruit onto a large plate.
2. Spread coconut onto another large plate.
3. Slide pieces of fruit onto the skewer and design your own kabob by putting as much or as little of whatever fruit you want! Do this until the stick is almost covered from end to end.
4. Hold your kabob at the ends and roll it in the yogurt, so the fruit gets covered. Then roll it in the coconut.
5. Repeat these steps with another skewer.

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Looking for a Healthy easy lunch or dinner recipe? Try this Chicken Salad and Greens Recipe: Approx 4 servings

Ingredients:

• ½ cup plain, nonfat Greek-style yogurt
• ¼ cup low-fat mayonnaise
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 large celery stalk, finely chopped
• ¼ cup red onion, finely chopped
• 1/3 cup grapes, cut in half
• 2 cups leftover roasted chicken, chopped into ½-inch pieces
• 4 cups romaine lettuce, coarsely chopped

Equipment and supplies:

• Mixing bowl
• Knife for chopping
• Bowls for serving

What to do:

1. In a large bowl, combine yogurt, mayonnaise, salt, pepper, celery, red onion, grapes, and chicken.
2. Mix gently until everything is well coated in dressing.
3. Divide lettuce between four bowls.
4. Top each bowl with some chicken salad. Serve cold.

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Healthy Chilli Recipe

Looking for a Healthy Protein Packed Chilli Recipe? Try this one out for size! Check out this book for more healthy recipes

Chilli is a great lunch or dinner meal, easily filled with protein, healthy fats, and vegetables. And it’s cheap to boot, an 8+ serving pot can be typically made for around $20! Thats a great deal for something that can feed you for a few days at least.

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2lbs extra lean ground beef / or substitute for ground turkey if you prefer
• 1  28oz can crushed tomatoes
• 1  28oz can diced tomatoes
• 1  19oz can kidney beans
• 1  19oz can mixed beans
• 1  12oz can stems and pieces mushrooms
• 1  12oz can corn niblets
• 1  green pepper
• 1 onion
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• Salt
• pepper

Optional:

• 1 cup brown rice
• 1/2 chopped banana peppers
• 1 cup frozen chopped spinach

Cooking Instructions:

In large pot or frying pan, brown ground beef and add pepper and salt to taste

While beef is cooking, add all of the canned ingredients to large pot or slow cooker on medium/low heat. Dice onion and green pepper and stir in to the pot. Add browned ground beef and seasonings (chilli powder, cayenne, pepper, salt) to pot and leave to simmer.

Optional ingredients can be added with beef and stirred in.

Leave on medium-low heat to simmer for 3-4 hours or until desired taste. (Cooking times can vary depending on slow cooker and oven)

Now you know my go to healthy chilli recipe add in some fun fat burning exercises to really make a change now!
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Who doesn’t love a fruit cup, this one is a  super simple recipe that kids love.

Cheap Homemade Fruit Cup Recipe

Ingredients (makes 2 cups):

5-7 -  grapes
1 -  apple
1/2 cup – frozen berries of your choice (my favorite are blueberries)
2 cups – low-fat vanilla or plain yogurt

Optional: 1/2- cup or plain granola
2 -smaller  reusable containers (I use ones like the picture but any one should do)

Directions:

Spoon 1 cup of low-fat yogurt into each container to form the base of our cup. Next cut the apple into small pieces that are bite sized (about 1 inch cubes or smaller) once cut add half of the pieces to each cup. Now slice the grapes into halves and combine with the apples and yogurt. (If adding granola, sprinkle 1/4 cup of plain granola onto each cup now) Lastly add 1/4 cup of chosen berries to each and seal the completed fruit cups.

Finished cups should be stored in the refrigerator until eaten or packed in the lunch  bag.

Enjoy!

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