Breakfast Burrito!

Who loves burritos? Who loves breakfast!? ME!

Today I am going to give y'all a quick meal recipe discovered by my bf that I love!!! YUM I love living with a nutrition major!

*Only bad thing is the sodium- In the wheat tortilla and turkey bacon*

Breakfast Burrito

Ingredients:

1 WHEAT/MULTI-grain tortilla

3 eggs

2-3 pieces of turkey bacon

hot sauce and pepper

pinch of cheddar chz (reduced fat)

[salsa if you like it]

Method:

1. scramble your eggs and heat the tortilla in the microwave for about 10 secs
2. cook your turkey bacon
3. assemble your tortilla with the eggs and add pepper, chz, hot sauce and BACON and TA DA you are done!

ENJOY!

*This is a high calorie breakfast but it's good fats, and early in the morning so you will burn it off during the day [unless you live a sedentary lifestyle]

-Samantha

xoxo

Why French Fries are Bad and Why I Avoid Them:

FRIES: mmm...everyone loves these little devils!

BUT! 

Did you know french fries are just as bad for you as smoking? 

I love the website bodybuilding.com-- here is the link of the article I read on fries Fries.

Now: If you cannot part with these fries I have a healthy alternative of course!!!! :D 

Ingredients:

-1 large sweet potato 

-sea salt or Kosher salt 

- pepper 

-EVOO

-a peeler

- large baking sheet!

-cajun seasoning

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees
2. peel your sweet potato
3. Slice the potato in medium size pieces
4. sprinkle your seasonings on it and the olive oil (do not drench in evoo) and put aluminum foil on the bottom of the pan 
5. bake for 15 mins and then flip them and for another 10 mins 

NOTE: eye ball to your taste :D

ENJJOOYYYY!!!!!!!

Healthy DELICIOUS MEAT BALLS!!! REVISED

Who loves meatballs and pasta? 

EVERYONE I HOPE!

This is a simple, affordable, and healthy meal that I make every other week. 

FACT: I am part Italian so I love the carb dishes- but I learned about complex carbs! I am eating my cake and having it too ;)

Lets get started:

Ingredients:

- 1 lb. of ground turkey meat

- 1 cup of bread crumbs (try to find wheat ones if you can with some parmesan [most whole foods or Fresh Market stores have them) If you cannot find it use what crackers and crunch them up finely with oregano and basil! BOTH are tasty!

- 1 large egg

- 2 dashes of cayenne pepper

- 1 dash of garlic salt

- 2 heavy dashes of italian seasoning

- tiny splash of skim milk
- 2 squirts of dijon mustard FOR MOISTURE

Hint: you can add chopped onion or red bell pepper for more crunch!
ADD more bread crumbs if they seem to liquid or soggy

Method: 

1. Get a big mixing bowl and add all of your ingredients and hand mix them
2. When you have it fully mixed up ball of the meat balls into a golf ball size ball 
3. set them on a aluminum foil line baking pan and put in the over on 350 degrees for 18 minutes
4. add them to a tasty sauce that's home made or a low sugar jar one!

ENJOY! 

Healthy Meatloaf with Red Sauce!

Ingredients:
For the meat:

-1 lb. of ground turkey meat
-2 dashes of garlic powder
- 1/2 cup of bread crumbs (italian or normal I choose italian)
- 1 dash of worcestershire sauce
- 1 dash of salt and pepper
- 1/2 large onion finely chopped
- 1 red bell pepper chopped finely
- 3 dashes of chill powder
- 1 egg
- italian seasonings
- dash of cayenne pepper

For the sauce:
- 1 jar of tomato sauce
- 1 tbl spoon of tomato paste
- dash of white vinegar
- 2 dashes of worcestershire sauce
-heavy squirt of yellow mustard

(add as much as you like to zesty to sweet)


Method:

1. Put ground turkey meat in a big mixing bowl 
2. Add the egg
3. add the bread crumbs
4. add the spices
5. add the worcestershire sauce
6. add the rest 

(Mix up all together with the hands and form into a bread loaf shape)

(Place in a baking pan lined with aluminum foil for easy clean up)

NEXT le Sauce

1. Pour can of tomato sauce in another bowl preferably medium sized- then add mustard, Worcestershire, vinegar, tomato paste
2. Mix vigorously and taste and add more of what you think it needs!

Bake at 350 for 25-30 mins depending on your oven

HOW IS THIS HEALTHY?

{Turkey meat is very lean and is not bad for the heart like red meats}

{The cayenne and chill powder induce weight-loss}

ENJOY!