Showing posts with label clean eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clean eating. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2016

New meal prep recipe: Tuna Muffin Cups

Welp. Today has started my new BB program: The Master's Hammer & Chisel (I'll be referring to it as H&C quite a bit)! I mentioned my meal plan for this in my last post & as promised, here is the new recipe I said I was trying this week! I prepped tuna muffin cups for lunch this week, which I was super excited about.

These were actually very simple to make- not only ingredient-wise but throwing-together wise. It was quick except for the 30-minute baking part. And they pretty much turned out as yummy as they look, which is always good!


Serving size: 3 muffins
Recipe yield: 3 servings (9 muffins)

Ingredients:
2 cans drained tuna
3/4c diced green pepper
1/4c diced onion
1/4c diced carrots
1/4c chopped spinach (small pieces)
3/4c cheese
2 eggs
salt & pepper to taste (as well as any other spices you wanna throw in. I added garlic powder and used garlic sea salt instead of regular salt as usual)
*for the diced veggies, I bought shredded carrots and bagged spinach and used my pampered chef manual chopper to chop them smaller along with already diced onion/pepper to be sure all pieces were small enough*

Preparation:
1. Preheat Oven to 350.
2.Combine everything but the cheese into a bowl and mix well.
3. Use a muffin/cup cake pan and scoop mixture evenly into 9 cups.
4. Sprinkle cheese evenly over the muffin cups. To be precise, you can put the cheese into the blue container and spread evenly across 3 muffins to be sure you're sticking correctly to the plan- do this 3 times t accommodate for the 9 muffins.
5. Bake for about 30mins/until cheese is melted and crispy to your liking
6. Voila. Enjoy!

Hammer & chisel/21 day fix/fix extreme stats per serving (3 muffins):
1 Red, 1 Blue, 1/2 Green
Nutrition facts per serving:
Cals: 240
Total Fat: 14 g
   
   Saturated Fat: 6 g
    
   Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g
   Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g
   Trans Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 182 mg    
Sodium: 478 mg     
Potassium: 335 mg     
Carbs: 6 g    
Dietary Fiber: 2 g     
Sugars: 0 g
Protein: 25 g    
Vitamin A 35 %
Vitamin C 5 %
Calcium 22 %
Iron 9 %
 
 

Friday, June 3, 2016

Another healthy dinner hit!

I've mentioned recently that I made a goal to try a new healthy dinner recipe each week. I'm doing this for 2 reasons other than the sake of staying on track:
1. To work through my Pinterest recipes (lol) and
2. To find husband-approved healthy meals! I've told yall how picky/close-minded he can sometimes be when it comes to healthy habits haha.

Last week my new dinner recipe was healthy, 21 day fix-approved alfredo. This week's new dinner menu item was 21df approved buffalo chicken meatballs (which look more like meat muffins since I put the balls into a muffin tin to bake lol) and just like last week's new healthy recipe, this was hubby approved! Only 86 cals & less than half a gram of carbs per meatball! Recipe with nutrition info & container portions are below.
 

Ingredients (makes 14-16 meatballs/mini meat muffins depending on how big you want them):

1.25 lb lean ground chicken
1 large egg
3/4c Italian breadcrumbs (or oats)
1/4 tsp salt
1/ tsp pepper
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp. dried parsley
1.5 cup buffalo sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Mix the ingredients in a medium bowl until well combined.
2. Roll the mixture into balls and place on non-stick pan or in muffin tin & bake for 30mins or until they pass the clean toothpick test!
3. ENJOY! There you have it. Simple, clean & yummy. =)
 
 
21 day fixers! I counted each meatball as 1/2 Red, and 1/4 Yellow- maybe add a teaspoon in there for the buffalo sauce.
 
Nutrition values per meatball for those of you who use MyFitnessPal (like myself)!
Calories86Sodium855 mg
Total Fat3 gPotassium11 mg
Saturated1 gTotal Carbs0 g
Polyunsaturated0 gDietary Fiber0 g
Monounsaturated0 gSugars0 g
Trans0 gProtein9 g
Cholesterol47 mg  
Vitamin A7%Calcium3%
Vitamin C0%Iron3%