Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Pizza Vegan Style

Ingredients:
-Whole Wheat Pizza Dough from Trader Joes or make your own!
-Low Sodium Marinara Sauce
-Nutritional Yeast Flakes
-Veggie Toppings of your choice: I used minced mushrooms, minced squash, minced basil, and sliced tomatoes

Directions:
*This is a fast easy meal and tastes delicious!
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
1. Lay the dough out on nonstick baking sheet or stone slab, leave it open to air for about 20min
2. In the meantime mince or slice the veggie toppings of your choice
3. Stretch out the pizza dough to 8-12inches, the smaller the diameter the thicker the crust
4. Apply marinara sauce and then sprinkle nutritional yeast flakes (cheese substitute)
5. Lay on the veggies and stick in the oven until crust is golden brown 8-12 minutes


Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Mel's Famous Sandwich

Everybody loves this sandwich, even people who don't eat healthy & kids! It's super tasty, refreshing, and each bite has a bit of crunch.

Ingredients:
-2 slices Whole Wheat Bread Toasted
-Spread: Hummus (homemade or storebought, I personally like TJ's eggplant hummus) or Garlic Aioli
-Roma Tomatoes Thinly Sliced
-Persian or English Cucumbers Thinly Sliced
-Fresh Basil Leaves
-Spinach
-Alfalfa Sprouts
-Avocado Slices

*Optional: Caesar Dressing (fat free & low sodium) drizzle scant amount inside of sandwich for an extra kick

Directions:
1. Toast Bread
2. Add Spread of your liking (hummus, garlic aioli, or avocado mixed with lemon juice)
3. Add cucumber slices (leave skin intact, do not peel)
4. Add tomato slices
5. Add spinach
6. Add fresh basil leaves
7. Add alfalfa sprouts
8, Add avocado slices






*then optional caesar dressing scant amounts drizzled

Sweet Breakfast Bowl

This is one of my favorite breakfasts to have. It fills you up and satisfies your sweet tooth. It also has tons of fiber and some protein.

Ingredients:
-Whole Shredded Wheat
-Uncle Sam's Wheatberry Flakes
-Raw Oats
-Vanilla Granola
-Almond Milk Unsweetened Vanilla
-1 Banana (or any other fresh fruit)

Directions:
Mix equal parts of whole shredded wheat bites, uncle sam's flakes & raw oats. Top off with a small serving of vanilla granola and a whole banana and any other fruit you wish to add. Fill up with Vanilla Almond Milk.