Recipes

Snack of the week: Smoothies!

March 10th, 2010  |  by Jenn  |  published in Food, Recipes, Simple Snacks, Snack of the Week

Smoothies are fast, easy and pretty much fool-proof.
I love smoothies because you just toss ingredients in a blender, whir them up and BANG – delicious!
For me, I like smoothies creamy. And an easy way to do that without adding fat, is to use ice, or frozen fruit.
Generally, in my smoothies, I pick ingredients from these [...]

Snack of the Week: Self-Made Trail Mix

February 24th, 2010  |  by Jenn  |  published in Food, Recipes, Simple Snacks, Snack of the Week

I have heard your pleas for snack ideas!
One of the things people ask me about most often is healthy snack ideas. So, I’ve started this handy-dandy Wednesday blog series: Jenn’s Snack of the Week. Check here on Wednesdays for some healthy snack ideas. And please, feel free to share your own!
Trail Mix = Endless Possibilities
Recently, [...]

Quick Snacks

July 29th, 2009  |  by Jenn  |  published in Food, Recipes

It’s 3:00 PM do you know where your appetite is?
If you’re anything like me, right around this time you’re starving. And you’re craving something… sometimes, something not-s0-good.
I usually crave salty snacks.
Here are a few of my favorite ways to put the kibosh on the craving without killing my nutrition for the day.
Energy Truffles
I was actually [...]

Express Lunch – Lettuce Wraps

July 15th, 2009  |  by Jenn  |  published in Food, Recipes

One of my favorite lunches is lettuce wraps. They’re easy – and so flexible. You can put anything you want in ‘em.
Instructions:
Get a nice, big head of Romaine lettuce. Take off a few leaves and wash them out. Now, chop up any and all veggies that you’d like.
Some typical veggies I use are purple cabbage, [...]

Ah for the love of spinach!

July 8th, 2009  |  by Jenn  |  published in Food, Recipes

Spinach gets a bad rap. Really.
I mean, how many times as a kid were you forced to choke it down? And I don’t know how much good Popeye did to help us kids change our minds about it. Watching him eat a can and then become super human just didn’t do enough to make me [...]