Almond Crusted Chicken

Almond Crusted Chicken
(1Red, 1Blue, 1Green)

All the crunch of fried chicken without all the calories! This nutty chicken is one of our household favorites.  We love nuts, so any excuse to incorporate them is awesome around here.  This is definitely one we will do again!!

Ingredients:

1 1/2-2 pounds of chicken (or can do fish)
1/2 pound bag of unsalted almonds
3-4 egg whites
salt
pepper
paprika
onion powder
garlic powder

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
2. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil
3. Brush the foil with a bit of Olive Oil
4. In a food processor blend the almonds, salt, pepper, paprika, onion and garlic powders until fine.  Put into flat bowl
5. Pound Chicken into thinner slices (top with plastic wrap and pound with cooking mallet). 
6. After pounding, cut into reasonable sized pieces about the size of your hand
7. Stir egg whites in a bowl, and dip meat in the egg. 
8. Now dip in the almond mixture, and put in oven

BAKING:

1. Bake for 25 minutes total.  10 min on first side, then flip and bake for another 10 minutes (so it doesn't get soggy).  Then turn the oven on broil for 5 more min, and will make it crispy and yummy!!!

Serve with salad.  (Also good with baked sweet potato - not pictured)

Chicken Fajitas

Clean Chicken Fajitas
(1 Red, 1 Green, 1 Yellow, .5 Blue)

We love fajitas at our house, and this is an easy meal to make for company so that you don't blow your diet.  Win/Win!

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast
• Southwest seasoning from book, or other fajita seasoning
• Bell peppers
• Onions
• Mushrooms
• Corn Tortilla
• Cheese

Directions:

1. Cook meat, and season
2. Slice and cook veggies
3. Measure, and spoon into 2 tortillas
4. Top with cheese.  
5. Enjoy!!!

This is super simple, and very yummy!!!

Clean Portabella Hamburger

Clean Portabella Hamburger
(1Red, 1Blue, 1Green)

One thing my husband loves (and me if I admit it to my self) is a good hamburger!  This is absolutely delicious.  I don't even miss the bun!!

Ingredients:
Lean ground meat
Cheese
Lettuce/Tomato
Nice big portabella cap
Honey and Mustard

1. Measure meat into red container, take out, and make patty
2. Cook hamburger
3. Add Cheese while still cooking to melt
4. Grill portabella, and top with cooked patty
5. Cutup lettuce/tomato/onions/pickles
6. Drizzle with Honey mustard

Substitutions:

• If you want a bun, get a whole wheat bun (2 Yellows) 
• If you want a side, you can do zucchini fries (1 GREEN), or sweet potato fries (1 Yellow)

Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas

Clean Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
(1 Green, 1 Red, 1 Yellow, 1 Blue)

One of the staples in our house is Mexican food.  Mexican anything.  And we all know with Mexican food, we have a lot of cheese and a lot of carbs!  Well, I was so excited when we put this recipe together, as I realized it fit completely within 21 Day fix, and is super easy!!!  I love enchiladas, and love to share this!!

NOTE: I make a double batch of this one, and have it for lots of leftovers.




Ingredients:
4-5 Chicken breasts
Green chile enchilada sauce (homemade or canned)
Package of small corn tortillas
Cheese
Cilantro
Chopped Lettuce & Tomato



Directions: 

1. Start Chicken and enchilada sauce in the crockpot in the morning.  Cook for 6-8 hours until done.
2. After chicken is done, take chicken out of crockpot, and shred, 
3. Add a few spoonfuls of sauce to shredded chicken (should be more sauce left in crockpot for the enchilada topping)
4. Add chopped cilantro.  NOTE: Can also add onions at this point, or whatever veggies you like. 
5.  Spoon some of the enchilada sauce into greased baking dish.
6. Warm corn tortillas in microwave slightly to soften
7. Put chicken mixture into the tortillas and roll, and put into baking dish
8. Top with a moderate amount of cheese (not too much).  Think .5 - 1 blue container per 2 enchiladas.
9. Cook at 350 degrees until cheese is melted and brown - About 20 minutes
10. Top with 1 G of chopped lettuce and tomato (less if you add veggies in)

Enjoy!!!  Hands down my favorite!

Clean Cheeseburger stuffed bell peppers

Clean Cheeseburger stuffed bell peppers
I found this lovely gem on pinterest when doing the 21 Day Fix!  These are awesome, and taste like they should be BAD for you, but so good!  Tastes like a Cheeseburger inside a bell pepper!!!

This recipe serves 2-3 with the following counts per stuffed pepper:  (1 Red, 1 Yellow, 2 Green, 1/2 Blue)




Ingredients:

2-3 Sweet bell peppers of your color choice.

1 Yellow container of brown rice, or quinoa

1/2 Yellow container of black beans, (canned) rinsed and drained

1/2 Yellow container of frozen corn

2 Red containers of browned low fat ground turkey or beef, seasoned with 21 Day Fix Southwestern Seasoning 

1 Green container of petite diced tomatoes (no sugar added, Should only contain tomatoes and ascorbic acid)

1 Green container of tomato sauce (same as diced tomatoes.  Read the label.)

1 Blue container of your favorite cheese

Directions: 

 

1. Cook brown rice, or quinoa

2.  Brown ground meat and season with Southwest seasoning.  Set aside to cool.

3. Drain and rinse black beans.  

4.  Combine in large bowl meat, tomatoes, corn, rice/quinoa, beans, and sauce.

5.  Cut caps off of peppers and pull out ribs and core.  Rinse excess seeds out.

6. Stuff peppers with filling.

7. Sprinkle with cheese.

8.  Bake at 375 Fahrenheit for 40-45 minutes.  Cheese should be melted and filling should be heated all the way through.

These are awesome.  We typically make a double batch, of these!!!

Chocolate Shakeology Recipes

Chocolate Shakeology Recipes

Shakeology is the healthiest meal of the day.  With all the ratios of a perfect meal, plus superfoods, probiotics, prebiotics, etc.  This is the best thing you will put in your body to fuel it every day.

Here are some chocolate recipes that are yummy!!!

If you don't have Shakeology, click HERE to order some! 

Clean Chicken Parmesan

Clean Chicken Parmesan (1 Red, 2 Green, .5 Blue)

We LOVE Chicken PARM, and this is a clean version of it, and super good!!!  We serve with a side salad

Ingredients

• 2 pounds chicken breasts, boneless and skinless
• 1/4 cup whole wheat bread crumbs (I didnt have bread crumbs so I toasted 2 pieces of whole wheat toast and threw them in the blender when they cooled)
• 2 tbsp fresh grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 egg whites
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• 2 tbsp organic marinara sauce to top each piece of chicken
• 2 tbsp shredded cheese to top each piece of chicken
• Spaghetti Squash

Directions

Spaghetti Squash (I do this ahead of time)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Slice squash widthwise into 1" rings. Run a knife around the interior or the rings to remove the seeds. Place rings on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 40 minutes.
3. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then peel the skin away and separate the strands into long "noodles".

Chicken

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees f.
2. Break open eggs into a shallow dish and scramble well.
3. In a medium mixing bowl, combine bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, sea salt, black pepper
4. Dip each side of chicken breast into the egg and then into bread crumb mixture.
5. Place in a large baking dish.
6. Bake at 450 degrees for 20 minutes, flip and cook 5 more minutes. Top with marinara sauce and shredded cheese and bake a few more minutes until cheese is melted.  

NOTE: For green container, we did 1 green for salad, and 1/2 green spaghetti squash, and 1/2 green sauce

Easy Granola

Easy Granola (1 Yellow, 1 tsp)

Ingredients:
6 cups oats
6 T softened Peanut butter
cinnamon
4 T honey
Optional: Sprinkled slivered almonds. 

Mix until oats are coated and clumpy. Bake on 350 for 15 min or so until golden.  Great for use with Fruit and Yogurt for Parfait.

NOTE: counting the almonds as a free in this case, because it's so few just for crunch.

Apple Pie Parfait

Apple Pie Parfait (1Purple, 1Yellow, 1Red) 

This is one of my favorite snacks.  It tastes like apple pie!  I included 2 variations, as I like this 2 different ways.  Each tastes a bit different, but both are super healthy.

Ingredients: 1 apple, cinnamon, quinoa, Vanilla Greek yogurt 

1. Heat a sauté pan with 1tsp of water. Chop the apples into bite sized pieces. Sprinkle with cinnamon. The pan should be hot enough to soften the apples; don't forget the move them around! 

2. Cook or warm up quinoa, measure and add to a bowl 

3. Add Vanilla Greek yogurt and sprinkle with cinnamon. Stir. 

4. Add cooked apples 

NOTE: If you have plain greek yogurt, add 1 tsp of honey or maple syrup (1 tsp)
Also, can use Granola (pictured on below) as the yellow in place of Quinoa.  Also very yummy.  

Heathy food doesn't have to taste healthy

Hi, I'm Angela, and recently I joined Beachbody as a coach.  I had some amazing results, and wanted to share my successes with others.

I had 3 pregnancies, and gained about 80lbs each time.  I am finally done having kids, and decided NOW was the time to get my body back!  I lost 25 pounds with 21 day fix in just 3 sessions!  I was so ecstatic.

It has completely changed the way I think of food.  It really challenged me to create yumminess inside of the container allowances. I started out by searching and finding 21 day fix recipes, but found myself inventing recipes, and really loving them!

I will be posting several recipes that I have tried, and  absolutely LOVE.

So, that's how this blog was born.  I wanted to create a place that can help others in their fitness journey.   I struggle some days, but the results help me to keep pushing through!

Please let me know if I can help you in your journey to become a healthier you.