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Healthy microwave popcorn is the best thing I can eat when I’m craving crunchy and salty. It’s got fiber, good fats from olive oil, and low-sodium salty goodness from Flavor God Everything Seasoning.
I use my Nordic Ware Microwave Popcorn Popper and good ol’ Orville Redenbacher to make a bowl that’s fast, easy, and chemical free.
Don’t ever buy those microwave popcorn bags again!
Continue reading “Recipe: Healthy microwave popcorn for one”I’m pretty strict about what I eat most of the time. To make it convenient, though, I tend to eat the same meals, and day of meals, over and over again. I eat for fuel, not for pleasure. (Man, that sounds so sad, doesn’t it? I do allow myself one cheat meal a week. Then I eat for pure gluttonous pleasure.)
Anyway, I notice that one certain day’s worth of meals makes me feel particularly good, keeps me within my macros, gets me all 21 Day Fix colored boxes in the right proportions, and results in a good weigh-in the next day.
I call it My perfect day of eating and it goes like this.
Sandy decided to make this for breakfast today.
It’s a recipe by Ted Allen, host of Food Network’s All-Star Academy. The recipe appeared in the April 13, 2015, issue of PEOPLE.
Sandy improvised with what we had in the house.
A well made breakfast burrito is one of the great pleasures of life.
And yet, the older I get, the harder it is to incorporate these little beauties into a healthy diet.
Especially since I track everything I eat with MyFitnessPal, and am keenly aware of where every calorie comes from. Six days out of seven, I log 1,300 to 1,600 calories (depending how much I exercise that day).
Then every Sunday, I enjoy myself one glorious CHEAT DAY.
Continue reading “Recipe: 300 calorie breakfast burrito (yeah, it’s small)”I’ve had a long relationship with snack bars, from Balance to Clif to Lunas.
My current favorite is the PowerBar Harvest Bar, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie flavor. Thanks to its light icing, this bar tastes more like a dessert and less like a healthy “nutrition bar.”
It is pretty healthy — 5 grams fiber, 10 grams protein, no trans fat, 80% Vitamin C, 40% calcium, and more!
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When the pasta craving hits and there’s no one else around, I will whip this up for myself.
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