Free Healthy Diet Recipes

Lettuce Wrap with Veggies

2010-02-28T18:43:00.000-08:00

A quick and easy lunch, snack or dinner recipe. Avocados are both delicious and healthy. They contain oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that may help to lower cholesterol and may eve offer protection against breast cancer.

1 small grated carrot
3 diced tomatoes
1⁄2 jalapeno pepper
2 T diced onion
1⁄4 C chopped cilantro
2 t juice of a fresh lime or lemon
6 romaine lettuce leaves
2 ripe avocados, cut into thin wedges

Mash the avocado in a bowl and add the pepper, onion, cilantro, lime or lemon. Spread this mix onto your lettuce leaves and sprinkle the grated carrot on top. wrap the leaves and enjoy! You may want to dip your wrap into hummus, soy sauce or salsa. Makes 4 servings.

Mouth-Watering Healthy Way to Cook Fresh Fish

2008-04-09T05:36:00.000-07:00

These ingredients are found at most health food grocery stores.

Fresh fish fillets (any kind you like - salmon, tuna, Mahi-Mahi, halibut, tilapia, etc.)

Organic lemon or lime

Bragg's Amino's (this is soy sauce, only healthier)

Fresh ginger root

Garlic

Tumeric

Sea salt (unrefined)

Organic pepper

Raw coconut oil

Always buy fresh, high quality fish and cook it the same day. A few hours before dinner, place fresh fish fillets in a shallow Corningware cooking dish. Squeeze half the lemon over the fish and pour enough Bragg's Amino's to soak the fish and add color to the water.

Use a garlic press to crush one small clove of garlic per fillet. Use the garlic press to crush some ginger, then sprinkle a small amount of tumeric, sea salt and pepper onto each fillet.

Put the glass lid on the Corningware pan. Turn the burner on medium high and watch as the water begins to boil. In 30 seconds to one minute, turn the fish and 30 seconds to one minute later, quickly turn the burner to low and let the pan sit for a few minutes. The fish will continue to heat and cook. Never overcook it! Eat is as rare as you prefer.

Place about a teaspoon of coconut oil to melt on top. Add the remaining lemon slices and your choice of garnish - fresh herbs, tomatoes,pineapple chunks, parsley, orange slices, etc.

Excellent side dishes: shredded beets, brown rice, asparagus and a big raw veggie salad.

World's Healthiest Breakfast Ever: Chocolatee-Skinny Shake

2008-04-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

All these ingredients are available at Whole Foods. You can substitute packaged unsweetened soy milk or almond milk instead of making your own nut milk.

Night before - soak 1 C. raw almonds, walnuts or pecans with pure water and a pinch of sea salt.

Morning - drain the water off the soaked nuts and rinse. Place the nuts in a blender with 3 C. of pure water.

Blend on high for about 3 minutes. (if you're using almonds, after blending drain the almond milk into a container and discard the almond skins). Keep 2 C. of nut milk in the blender. Refrigerate the remainder to use the following day.

Add any or all of these ingredients to the nut milk and blend for about 2 minutes (longer if the fruit is frozen). Then pour into a big glass and enjoy every drop!

3 T raw cocao powder or cocao nibs (world's healthiest chocolate!)

2 T raw coconut oil

2 T agave syrup

1 t stevia powder

1 t vanilla extract (organic if you can find it)

1 t raw hemp seeds or sesame seeds

1 packet chlorella green powder

1 Packet of whey powder mix, like Jay Robb's Whey Protein

1 cup high quality yogurt (just yogurt & cultures, like SkyHill Napa Valley goat yogurt)

1 cup fresh or frozen berries; 1/2 banana; mango; peaches or any other favorite fruit