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Healthy Banana Blueberry Muffins

March 28th, 2011

For, the biggest challenge for daily healthy eating comes in the morning for breakfast. It usually happens on the go, and as a result I’m most tempted to reach for some not-so-great food choices for breakfast. However, I think I have (temporarily) cured some of my breakfast woes with this easy blueberry muffins recipe. I’ve rediscovered just how great healthy muffins are for an on-the-go breakfast. I’ll just bake a batch of the healthy blueberry muffins recipe beforehand and stick everything in the fridge or freezer. Come morning, it’s just reheat and eat. For some healthy variety in your breakfast routine, you have to reach for these healthy muffins!

Healthy Banana Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

1/4 pound (1 stick) butter, or butter substitute suitable for baking 3/4 cup sugar, or sugar substitute suitable for baking 2 large eggs 1 cup mashed banana (2 to 3) 1/2 cup skim milk or soymilk 2 cups whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 cups blueberries, fresh or frozen

Instructions:

In bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Mix in bananas and milk. In large bowl, stir flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Add banana mixture to flour, mixing just until batter is moist. (don’t over-mix.) Gently stir in whole blueberries. Do not thaw if frozen. Spoon batter into 12 greased or lined muffin tins, near full. Bake at 375 degrees F for 30-35 minutes to golden brown. Let cool 5 minutes in pan, then on rack. Refrigerate.

One of the things I love about this blueberry muffins recipe is just how easy and versatile it is. I’m not much of a baker by any stretch of the imagination, but I had no problem at all makes these healthy muffins. Plus, this recipe is generally flexible when it comes to ingredients. You can use real butter and real sugar, or you can use low calorie substitutes. Either way, these healthy muffins are unbelievably good. Of course, if you don’t like the the flavor combination of banana and blueberries, you can take out one. However, while I’m not the biggest banana fan, I thought the extra sweetness added some extra oomph to these blueberry muffins. Thanks to the real fruit and whole grains in this recipe, I can eat once and feel great for the entire morning.

Your Turn: What is your Favorite On-the-Go Breakfast option?

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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes – Budget Meal Planning for November

March 25th, 2011

Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey and Turkey Leftovers

The festive season brings with it both joys and stresses. And the place where the tensions are often most evident is in the kitchen! If you want to avoid being harassed over the holidays, a modicum of thinking ahead can avert potentially fraught situations. Planning your healthy Thanksgiving recipes is the first step. You’ve got the recipe for cooking Thanksgiving turkey But what to do with the turkey leftovers? Turkey a la King is a great way of producing an entirely new meal with the previous day’s turkey. Turkey Burgers with Coriander, Soy and Pickled Ginger also ring the changes and give a slightly fusion twist to a traditional recipe.

Ground Beef Casserole Recipes and Simple Chicken Recipes

However, November is not ALL about Thanksgiving! We all have three weeks of meals to produce before then. This needn’t be a chore if you plan wisely. The trick is to try and get another meal out of a main meal. For example: Shepherd’s Pie Recipe on one night will easily make a reappearance as a glamorous Meat Pie Recipe, complete with light puff pastry. Oven Baked Whole Chicken as a main meal could become a delicious Chicken Pasta Bake with Pesto Sauce and Parmesan Crust. Your Best Grilled Salmon Recipe could then double as Fresh Salmon Croquettes. So, you can see, that with a little monthly meal planning, putting nutritious daily meals on the table needn’t be too onerous.

Fresh Pumpkin Recipes

Autumn Meal Planning wouldn’t be complete without an offering of Pumpkin Recipes. Of all pumpkins, Butternut Squash is my favorite for its intense, nutty flavor. Using vegetables that are bountiful at this time of year makes sense if you are trying to cook economically. So, what better than a Butternut Squash Soup Recipe with a Pumpkin Muffin? Butternut Squash Recipe with Coconut Milk and Cashew Nuts makes an ideal Thanksgiving side dish recipe and for a vegetarian optional main course, you could try Vegetarian Moussaka with Butternut Squash and Aubergines. Simply delicious.

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

Budget Meal Planning is not all around sensible main meals! What would Thanksgiving be without the best Pecan Pie recipe? Or you could try an easy Fresh Pumpkin Pie Recipe which is light and nutritious.

Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes

Homemade cookie recipes come into their own over Thanksgiving. There is nothing like making a batch of cookies as a gift – they are a symbol of your time and thought. Snickers Cookies are fun to make with the family and Greek Cookies not only look beautiful, they taste fabulous.

November Meal Planning is currently available for your daily cooking ideas. All recipes are free.

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Are Tasty And Healthy HCG Diet Recipes Easy To Find On The Internet?

March 24th, 2011

Looking for delicious and healthy recipes for the HCG diet, but having a hard time finding them? There are a few ways you can use the Internet to locate the recipes you will enjoy eating when you use this diet to lose weight.

One of the ways you can use is to find a HCG cookbook. This can be easily found online using any major search engine such as Google or Yahoo. This may take some time before you find one that can be trusted to provide you with food you should eat that will allow you to stick with this strict diet.

You want to research each cookbook carefully before you buy anything. This way you will be assured that you will be learning to cook foods that work well with this special diet and eat foods that will not hinder your results.

Another way to find recipes is to find a site that is dedicated to the HCG diet. There are a few of these places online, but again you have to carefully choose one to use.

It is always wise to take the time to on any site that offers recipes that are directly on their site. You would be wise to use a site that offers you much needed information on their website along with the recipes they provide.

That way you can be assured you are getting good recipes that do not take away from the HCG diet. The sites that offer you recipes will give you many that you can actually use while still sticking to the diet.

Look for a site that offers recipes for some of the following:

- Many healthy soups

- Lettuce wraps

- Foods you crave chocolate like strawberry sorbet to prevent cravings

- Salads like Thai cucumber salad

- Healthy drinks such as soda refresher courses

This is just a small handful of the recipes that you can easily find on the net. It may take time to find recipes that you will like, but if it helps you stick with the HCG diet then it will be time well spent.

Now that you understand how you can easily find good, healthy HCG diet recipes online, all that remains is to start finding recipes you will enjoy eating. Remember that you should be careful with the site or cookbook you choose, so you can be sure that you are not veering away from this diet that will help you finally achieve weight loss.