What would be a good recipe for my neighbor?

Q. My neighbor is on a diet, and I was wondering what would be a good snack recipe. It can be anything healthy.

Thank you in advance =)

A. Mexican Style Weight Watchers 0 Points Soup Recipe

- 2 cups fresh green snap beans, cut into bite-size pieces
- 3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
- 2 small zucchini, cubed
- 1 cup tomatillos, chopped
- 1 medium jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
- 14 oz canned diced tomatoes, Mexican-style preferred
- ½ medium poblano chili pepper
- 1 medium Spanish onion, chopped
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- ½ tsp cumin
- 1 tsp fresh oregano
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 2 roasted red peppers packed in water
- 1 Tbsp chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
- ¾ tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
- ½ cup fresh, chopped cilantro


Put snap beans, garlic, zucchini, tomatillos, jalapeno, diced tomatoes, green chili pepper, onion, green pepper, cumin, oregano and vegetable broth into a large soup pot.
Puree roasted peppers with chipotle in adobo sauce in a blender or food processor, and add to soup; stir to combine.
Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
Reduce heat to low, and simmer, partly covered, for about 10 minutes.
Stir in salt, lime juice and cilantro.

Serve and enjoy!

Serving Size = 1 cup


Ice Cream Sandwich Recipe with Vitalicious VitaTops – 4 Point Value

2 Deep Chocolate Vitalicious VitaTops (order them online)
- 1/2 cup Breyer’s Double Churn Fat Free Creamy Vanilla Ice Cream

**You can get creative with this recipe and use different flavors of ice cream, if you’d like, just make sure it’s within the 80-100 calorie range and less than 2g of fat per 1/2 cup. You can also try it with different flavors of Vitalicious VitaTops!


Pretty self explanatory, but for the sake of clarity, here’s what to do.

Place one VitaTop bottom side up,
and top it with 1/2 cup of the vanilla ice cream.

Then, place the other VitaTop on top of the ice cream,

with the bottom side down, and press firmly, thus creating your ice cream sandwich!

Recipe makes 1 full ice cream sandwich.
Enjoy!

Serving size is 1 Ice Cream Sandwich
Each serving = 4 Weight Watchers Points

Original Question

What is a healthy snack I can make for my health class?

Q. In my high school health class we need to bring in a healthy food item later this week. It has to be made, so I can't just buy something from the store. Preferably something with simple ingredients that I can whip up with stuff I already have at home. Item I pick gets 10 points for best answer. Thanks!

A. Here are some healthy ideas :)
If you can try to use natural organic foods

~ Sweet potato chips or regular potato chips baked - made by thinly slicing sweet potato or potato, glazing with olive oil, sprinkling on salt/pepper and baking.

~ Hummus and veggie platter - raw carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumber slices or sticks, sliced cherry tomatoes, lightly steamed broccoli, slices of bell peppers. You could also cut whole wheat pita into triangles for dipping or have whole wheat pita chips.

~ Fruit salad

~ Apple slices with but butter for dip (like peanut butter or almond butter) or apple halves spread with nut butter, sprinkled with cinnamon

~ Trail mix - different nuts, seeds, dried fruit (such as blueberries, cherries, cranberries, raisins, etc), you could also add in bits of dark chocolate

~ Greek yogurt parfaits with organic granola or muesli and berries

~ Whole grain crackers (such as Kashi crackers) with cheese and grapes

~ Whole grain crackers with nut butter & cinnamon

~ Whole grain or buckwheat waffles or pancakes with nut butter & natural jam or agave nectar or honey, with cinnamon

~ Cottage cheese with slices of peach, mixed berries or pineapple chunks


Recipe ideas:

* Hummus
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/107

* Dried apple slices
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/3076

* Carrot apple muffins
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/1476

* Cherry pecan bran muffins
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2892

* Yogurt honey muffins
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2602

* Oat date bars
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2748

* Apple cinnamon oat squares
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2867

* Apple sandwiches with granola and peanut butter
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/2535

* Roasted chickpeas
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/roasted-chickpeas/detail.aspx


I hope this helps :)

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Original Question

What are some healthy meals\snacks for breakfast, lunch and dinner that I can make at home?

Q. What are some healthy, easy meals\snacks for breakfast, lunch and dinner that I can make at home?
10 points for the most ideas for all the meals\snacks!

A. Breakfast:

- Egg whites (better for you than the whole egg) with a little salt and pepper, maybe some cheese to add flavor, on wheat toast.
- Grapefruit (it's sooo healthy for you, it can be a snack too)
- Cottage Cheese Pancakes: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/351
- Oatmeal
- All fruit smoothie. Have non frozen fruit and add ice or use frozen fruit and add a little 100% fruit juice. You can make it a *healthy* milk shake by using low fat milk instead of juice and adding a little sugar (sugar isn't unhealthy in small amounts, but fake sugar like sweet and low and equal are bad for you)

Lunch/Dinner:

- Chicken breast with lemon pepper or other seasonings
- A spinach tortilla with chicken cooked in some bbq sauce. Add lots of lettuce and a little bit of light ranch (like a teaspoon, if even that).
- Salad- there are thousands of possible salads you can make but what I love doing is a bunch of lettuce, some spinach if you like that, salt, pepper, garlic (powder and only a small amount) and vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, or even carrots and peppers
- Taco Salad: brown some lean beef, drain any fat, add seasonings (McCormick has a taco seasoning packet for 50 cents). Make a bowl full of lettuce, tomatoes if you want, some beef, some cheese if you want, and tortilla chips if you want (less healthy version).
- Chicken in a bag- McCormick's has these awesome chicken bag seasonings where you throw chicken in the bag (they provide) with some carrots, potatoes, whatever you want, add the seasoning and bake for about an hour. One of my husbands favorites!
- Costco sells individual salmon fillets. Take one out of the fridge/freezer, season to your liking, throw on a pan, the grill, or in the oven and cook.
- a sandwich- between whole wheat bread slices, pita style, or wrapped up (spinach wraps are really delicious, or whole wheat wraps which I'm not a huge fan of).
- Make some quinoa or brown rice in a rice cooker or in a pot if you don't have one. Add some black beans, salt and pepper, and some mozzarella if it's still to bland. I like to add some sriracha (chili hot sauce) into the rice as it cooks and some garlic seasoning. It adds some kick and makes it taste really good without adding the sodium from cheese.

Snacks:
- peppers
- celery. If you hate it alone add some organic peanut butter (no preservatives) you can even go to many stores and grind your own peanuts into peanut butter.
- peas, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, other vegetables but not potatoes or corn.
- apples, pears, bananas, berries, grapefruit, and other fruits.
- some nuts or a homemade trail mix (raisins, peanuts, almonds, some dark chocolate chips, whatever else you want)


Dessert
- a small amount of dark chocolate is actually really good for you. The higher the cocoa content the better :) But only a small amount.


Those are my favorites but check out this site: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/over-100-quick-and-easy-healthy-foods.html

for more options. There are an unlimited amount of healthy foods out there you just have to find what you like and stick with it :)

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