Hi there, first post here
had to make it a recipe post, as i am quite an amateur chef. I eat these kind of sallads everyday, and with regular workout i lost 45+ kilos (99 pounds)...in a year or so.
Well, i could have lost more but if you know how to cook there are so many tentations out there. And, my english isn't perfect so feel free to correct me. And i'm not a nutritionist,
i may be a bit hardcore on loosing fat but at least these sallads are healthy and they taste good. I won't put detailed quantities, you must play with them until you get the balance you want.
And ofc, don't stuff your face. eat less and often, 5 meals per day
So let's start:
I use tuna very often (canned in water only), as it gives the sallad flavor without adding salt, vinegar, or even olive oil (i only use extravirgin olive oil in my sallads, about 2 tea spoons). From one
can you can make up to 4 sallads if you want. So it's really a cheap omega 3 source food. There are hundreds of ways to prepare tuna sallads as there are so many veggies out there to mix tuna with them
Be creative and stick NOT using salt, pepper, and other oils besides olive oil and USE LEMON JUICE. Or hey, don't use olive oil at all, but it's the best thing for a dressing.
1) Tuna with frozen veggies sallad.
Now i've seen Scooby microweaving his veggies (mexican mix, peas, long pod beans, etc). It didn't work for me
) i heat up some water, put the frozen veggies in, strain them, put them in a bowl, get my tuna can, strain the water from the can, mix the tuna with the veggies. (I don't add salt or brown pepper, for 2 reasons: salt is bad, the food that you're eating has all the sodium your body needs, and black/white whatever pepper gives you appetite, makes you hungry so does every spice stuff on the market). Over this mixture, you can add 1-2 tea spoons of virgin olive oil (i have one with omega3 for example), and lotsa lemon juice (can mask the lack of salt or vinegar from the sallad and it's healthier). You can add chopped fresh parsley, some chopped fresh cucumber AND my favorite... add some nice grilled chicken breast (boneless, skinless).
I usually make like 800g-1 kilo of this sallad, put it in some plastic recipients and eat 5 times a day from it. It doesn't smell, it doesn't go sour, it's fresh... what more can you want.
2) Grilled chicken breast with frozen veggies
Yes, i don't want to repeat my self, but here, you replace the tuna with grilled chicken breast, that you chop into bits, mix it with your veggies and your good to go. For dressing, only 2 tea spoons of
olive oil and half of lemon. in 800 gr of sallad put 200 gr of chicken breast, let the veggies be dominant in every sallad.
3) Long pod bean with fresh garlic dressing.
Yeah, don't plan to go out when you eat this
So, you take like 1 kilo of frozen long pod beans, put them in hot water, when they're unfrozen get them out, strain them, put them in a bowl.
the dressing: Take like 2 clove of garlic (you don't need much to give it the flavor), mince it very small or use something to turn it into a cream, put it in a bowl among with 1 table spoon of olive oil,
some fresh chopped parsley or something similar, some lemon juice, mix it well and when this dressing is done mix the dressing with the long pod beans to give it a nice equal coating.
You can replace the long pod beans with cauliflower OR brocoli ofcourse.
4) Fresh vegetable sallad (my favorite)
get 2 carrots, 2 celery roots (not the green part), 1 apple (without the skin), 1 small piece of horseradish (clear the skin), mince them very fine, mix them, put lemon juice.
5) not actually a sallad: been seeds cream
mm...sounds simple but it's deeeelicious. So, get your can of beans (whatever type you want), or get fresh beans and boil them. Put them in a blender along with 2 cloves of garlic until they
turn to a soft even cream. Then put some minced parsley or anything similar (i have a fetish with parsley, as everything tasted good with this). u can eat it like that, or with boiled egg whites,
boiled veggies on the side
it really sounds like something for ppl without teeth or kids, but it's very very good.
2 things to avoid: KETCHUP and MUSTARD. do not, under any circumstances use these in sallads or over anything. Read the labels and see why i consider them dissaster sauces. Not to mention
mayonnaise. If you really want some sauce and you're dieing for some mayo thing, get 4 fresh cucumbers, skin them, mince them very fine, strain them of their water, mix it with low fat or non fat
yogurt, add 1 table spoon of olive oil, very fine minced parsley AND voila...sauce for you
it's similar to (i think greek recipe) sauce...without the salt and the pepper and some other things.
oK..got to run to work, will post more sallads and eventually clear the spelling mistakes later, wrote it in a hurry. Just searching in the dictionary for vegetables names took me a bit
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