OBSESSED with this Rainbow Cauliflower Rice which is so yummy and SO easy to make!
Ingredients make 4 servings:
🍚425 riced cauliflower (usually 1 bag)
🌈 1 chopped red bell pepper
🌈 1 chopped orange bell pepper
🌈1 chopped yellow bell pepper.
🌈1 chopped green bell pepper
🌈1/2 chopped red onion
🍚🌈Season with garlic salt and pepper and sauté everything for 6-8 minutes in a nonstick pan and enjoy immediately or make for meal prep (like I did 😃) and have throughout the week 😋🙌
Excited to say I’ve been experimenting with some new content where I make a basic recipe with protein and veggies and then show you guys how you can add in more carbs and fat 😃 this is typically how I build my meals for the week and I’ll focus on having higher carb meals around my workouts and higher fat meals at other times of the day to help with satiety and getting in those healthy fat nutrients🤗 First up is chicken fajitas!
The base of this recipe is 12 oz chicken and 4 sliced different color bell peppers marinated in a SUPER EASY Spicy Lime Sauce
The Spicy Lime Sauce is made from 1 tbsp olive oil, 1 tbsp cayenne, 1 tbsp minced Garlic, 1 tbsp cilantro, and lime juice from one lime. I mixed everything and then tossed my sliced peppers and chicken in it. If you’re not a fan of a lot of spice, then you could take out the cayenne and maybe just add a little mild chili powder 😉
I baked my chicken and peppers for 25 minutes at 400 degrees (my chicken breast was pretty thick so if yours is thinner then you could do less time) this sheet pan then yields three servings 4 oz chicken and a little over a cup of peppers😋
To make a higher carb meal, I simply added some 90 second Mexican Rice from Market Pantry from Target👌🙌 I also added a little NF Greek yogurt as a sour cream replacement to help tame the heat 😅 There’s TONS of 90 second rice options out there that can make this meal simple or you could keep it more traditional and make some rice yourself 🙂 You could even do Rainbow Cauliflower Rice with this chicken to make it lower carb and more veggies!
To make a higher fat meal, I made lettuce tacos with romaine hearts and added a Wholly Guacamole Cup 🥑
Both were SUPER delicious, satisfying, and fueling in their own ways 😃🤗 Bookmark this for a family dinner, party, or your next meal prep! I split the rice into 3 portions which comes out to 3/4 cup below, and then 1 mini guacamole cup would go for each of the higher fat meals! You could also do just fresh avocado or half a guacamole cup if you wanted to bring the fat grams down!
Macro Friendly Pasta Salad that only requires 4 ingredients! Perfect side dish to bring to any party or super simple dish to make for a meal prep! Shown above is a serving of the pasta salad which comes out to 128g in weight and 162 calories 6P/27C/3F. The big thing that can make pasta salad have not the friendliest macros is that they can be high in fat from a large amount of oil based dressings or high fat additions like cheese, avocado, and olives. Since pasta salad is typically a party food/side and since most parties will already have foods/treats that are higher in fats then I thought having a lighter and easy pasta salad could be a great recipe to have!
I kept this pasta salad super simple, but you can definitely add in more veggies to make it MORE nutrient dense! I added sautéed spinach to it here and loved it! And since this recipe is so low in fat you can have the easy option to add in those other fats without worrying about overdoing it on the fat macros for this dish 🤗
I LOVE these Wacky Mac Veggie Spirals! Easy to make and packed with nutrient dense ingredients!
I also added a 10 oz container of grape tomatoes which I sliced with this cool trick I saw on the Food Network! You simply put a bunch of your tomatoes between two plates and then slide a knife between the plates to cut the tomatoes!
Saves A BUNCH OF TIME as opposed to slicing them individually!
Remember how I was mentioning that a lot of pasta salads are higher in fat because of their dressings? Well here’s my solution! I still used a delicious high fat Roasted Tomato, Parmesan, & Basil Dressing BUT I kept it in moderation by only using 4 tbsp(60g) (while most pasta salad recipes say to use an entire bottle of Italian dressing) and mixed it with 75g Nonfat Greek Yogurt, salt, and a bit of water. This let me have that great taste without overdoing it on the calories!
I added in teaspoons of water as I whisked it to check that I was getting a good dressing consistency. It ended up being probably 1.5 tbsp of water but this can vary depending on the greek yogurt and salad dressing you mix it with.
Last step is to toss the pasta and tomatoes in the sauce and enjoy!
I figured out that a serving was 128g by weighing my container before adding anything (500g) and then weighing it again after I added everything (1785g) and subtracting those amounts to make the total weight of the pasta salad 1285g. Then I just divided that by 10 to say that it makes 10 servings at 128g each.
Macros per serving:
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Have a 🏈party coming up and nervous about all the maybe high calorie/un-macro Friendly dishes that might be there 😬 Want to impress your friends by bringing some bomb chili that you can enjoy with stressing that isn’t going to ruin your fitness goals?! Then try out this chili!
So much flavor and spice with macros so nice! 💪
And SUPER EASY to make! My favorite way to cook! 🙌
What’s in it?
(Note: You can use a whole lb of ground turkey and split up the ingredients a bit more to make it even more macro friendly! I just had wanted to save 4 oz to eat plain the day I made this)
🔺1 can Chopped Tomatoes with Garlic
🔺1 chopped jalapeño (optional for more 🔥)
🔺Added seasonings: chili powder, cumin, and garlic powder
Adding in these canned flavored items made me feel less stressed about flavor but I added what I had available in the cupboard, but if you don’t add anything else for seasonings, you have to at least add some Chili powder…I mean it IS Chili!
Directions:
Add beans, tomatoes, and chopped jalapeño to a pot and cook on medium heat.
Cook ground turkey with seasonings in a separate skillet until just about done.
Transfer turkey to pot with beans and veggies to continue to cook on low.
Add in tomato paste to thicken it up and continue to cook it on low to just get all the flavors go mesh together 😋
To figure out the Chili macros I created a recipe in My Fitness Pal by adding in all the ingredients used and then choosing the servings amount (3 in this case so that I could have 4 oz of Turkey with each serving)
And then anytime I have a serving I can just go to my recipes and log it!
Enjoy with a dollop of nonfat Greek yogurt to help tame the spice and add in some extra carbs (Naan, chips, potato) if you want 😉
Macros with Naan & Yogurt: 569 kcal 39P/79C/12F
