Real Nutrition. Real Simple.
This side dish tastes exponentially better than it sounds thanks to the bacon and garlic. The texture and flavor combination will remind you of potatoes which you may be missing if you’re doing the Slow Carb Diet. It’s also a great way to get kids to eat beans and cabbage because the cabbage makes the [...]
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This chile recipe will help you get the protein and beans you need during the Slow Carb Diet from 4-Hour Body. It also tastes really good Ingredients 1 pound lean ground beef (or buffalo) 15 oz can kidney beans 15 oz can black beans 1 onion, diced 2 tbsp canned diced green chiles 3 tbsp [...]
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This recipe makes a great side for pork dishes and combines fruit & vegetables to give you protein and carbs in one easy to make side dish. The combination of the roasted apples, sweet potatoes and spinach makes for a tasty and beautiful side dish that even spinach haters are sure to enjoy. Ingredients 2 [...]
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Italian food is usually pretty off limits for dieters. It’s high carb, high fat and high calorie which is a trifecta of bad news. But, with some modifications you can enjoy Italian dishes and not blow your calorie budget. By removing the frying portion of the process, this eggplant parmesan recipe recipe has fewer calories [...]
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Tofu is one of those ingredients that I’ve used sparingly and only when it’s hidden inside lasagna or something else that will mask it. Recently I’ve been using more tofu and have found a great tasting, healthy way to incorporate it in your breakfast or lunch. This Tofu Egg Scramble will give you a large [...]
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One of the foods I don’t eat often because of the high oil and calorie content is pesto sauce. Just two tablespoons of pesto will cost you about 150 calories and two tablespoons doesn’t go very far so inevitably you’ll have more like 4 tablespoons. Add those 300 calories in 4 tablespoons to a 200 [...]
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A tasty, crispy, fried taco shell bowl is one of the tastier things out there. Unfortunately as tortillas already have a lot of calories and frying them only ads more, they are very, very high in calories. Just the shell portion of a Taco Bell taco salad has about 360 calories. But, you don’t have [...]
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One of the meals I miss most regularly is pizza and one of my favorite types of pizza is Hawaiian (canadian bacon & pineapple with marinara sauce and mozzarella). I created this meal to get the flavors from Hawaiian pizza while getting more nutrition (including nearly 40 grams of protein) and fewer calories and it’s [...]
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This turkey burger recipe is inspired by a recipe I found that uses mayonnaise and olive oil to make an aioli to top a turkey burger. Adding mayo and oil to a turkey burger sort of defeats the purpose of a turkey burger. So, this recipe “healthifies” the aioli (it’s not really an aioli anymore [...]
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Ingredients 2 – 6 ounce salmon fillets 1 small cucumber 2 1/4 inch thick slices of red onion, diced 1/4 cup fat free Greek yogurt 1/4 cup Lebni (Greek sour cream) zest of one lemon juice of one lemon 1/4 cup fresh dill salt and pepper to taste Makes two servings Ingredients Coat the salmon [...]
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