Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Avocado Bacon Omelet


A healthy omelet that is quick and easy for any morning. Tasty and only takes 10 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:
2 Eggs
1 tbsp milk/cream/etc
Herbs if desired
1/2 diced avocado
1 tbsp crumbled bacon (I used the stuff in the jar)
1/4 c Parmesan or mixed hard Italian cheeses
1/4 - 1/2 c vegetables if desired or on hand

Servings: One good healthy breakfast

Instructions:
Scramble the eggs with the milk, and herbs if your using them, as much as you like. Want a fluffy omelet, scramble the heck out of it. Want a dense omelet, scramble less. Pour the egg into a ~8 inch pan coated with cooking spray. Let cook a minute or two and then sprinkle the bacon, cheese and avocados on half of the omelet. Add the extra veggies if your using them.

When the bottom is cooked flip half the omelet over the other half, let cook. Then flip the whole thing and let the other half cook through to make sure all egg is cooked and cheese is melted.

Eat hot and steaming!

Nutritional Information: 450 calories, 23g of Protein and while it does have 33g of fat, it is healthy fat, it pretty much all comes from the avocado.

Recipe From: Made it up, used it a few times just decided to write it down and look at the overall nutritional values

I have made these numerous times, just thought I would take the time to write it down and talk about nutritional content. Super easy, tasty and healthy.

You can really use any cheese you want, if you want to make this in a California fashion use Monterrey Jack. But I wanted to cut calories and hard Italian cheeses have fewer than most soft cheeses. I keep some grated in the fridge at all times, toss it on all sorts of things and no salt needed because the cheese has plenty.

You can add extra vegetables if you have them on hand, but I don't like most vegetables in my eggs but green and red peppers would add some crunch if your so inclined. Use herbs as you see fit, basil goes well, so does garlic and Italian herbs.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

60 Calorie Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin bread in cookie form. Chewy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside. Full of fall flavors this cookie whips up fast and requires no eggs or butter.

Ingredients:
1 cup of whole wheat flour
1/4 cup of white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 Maple syrup
1tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp of pumpkin pie spice
1/2 unsweetened apple sauce
1/2 tsp of Almond Extract
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 cup of canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
Cooking spray

Servings: ~22 cookies

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a cookie sheet with cooking spray or use a silpat (no spray needed)

Cream sugars, Maple syrup, applesauce, pumpkin, almond and vanilla extract together. mix in baking soda, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice. Add four and stir until just combined.

Drop cookies in ~1-2 tbsp mounds, a cookie scoop makes pretty cookies and helps you achieve your perfect 60 calorie cookies but is not needed.

Bake 15-18 minutes, you can even use a toothpick to check doneness like pumpkin bread if your nervous. That's what I did when I left out some of the original recipes flour. 

Nutritional Information: With 22 cookies you get - Calories: 60 Total Fat: 0.2g Cholesterol: 0.0 Sodium: 80.2 mg Total Carbs: 14.7g Fiber: 1.1g Protein: 0.9g Recipes.sparkpeople.com

Recipe From: Nutritionfor.us

The basic recipe on this took a major change when I flat out forgot to add the other cup of white flour. But I already had some of them in the oven, so I pressed on to see how they would come out, and they came out perfect. No need for the added flour at all!

I am also not sure how the original recipe came to 42 calories a cookie, my calculations came out to 60 calories, and that was with a cup less of flour. But I think 60 calories a cookie is still perfectly acceptable in my book.

I think you could cut some more sugar out and not miss it, but I have not tried it yet. I think you could use 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup maple syrup (use light and cut out some more calories) with no white sugar at all and still get amazing cookies.

These came out chewy on the outside and soft and moist like pumpkin bread on the inside. Fantastic flavorful treat, and close to guilt free!