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Fajita Night

Fajita Night

When I make fajitas it’s a whole to do! Lots of condiments, veggies, protein by far one of my favorite meals! Are you making your fajita the right way?? Serves 4 Ingredients: 4, mission flour tortillas (about 140 calories each) 1lb fajita steak strips (or 

Zahava (Cabbage) Salad

Zahava (Cabbage) Salad

Can only thank my friend for this great simple recipe that’s now a weekly staple in my house! She made it once with dinner and I literally overdosed on it! Love it so much ❤️❤️ Ingredients: Green cabbage Red cabbage 1/4c slivered or chopped almonds 

Zucchini Pasta Leftovers

Zucchini Pasta Leftovers

Just a tip! Sometimes we order take out and wonder if it’s healthy. Most of the time it’s basically drowning in salt, sugar and fat! A great way to maximize your food and minimize your calories is to….ADD VEGETABLES! Here’s how to do it with pasta leftovers or throw this into your pasta and make a quick sauce!

Ingredients

3 zucchini

1 container of angelhair pasta pomodoro

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees f.

Spiralize the zucchini

Line a baking sheet with tin foil and coat with cooking soeay

Add zucchini and spray top with cooking spray

Bake for 10 minutes

Toss it in your pre-existing pasta dish

Have one cup! Enjoy the flavor with half the calories

Nutrition tip

Most of the sauces at Italian restaurants are high in calories. Marinara is the only safe bet but it’s also kind of boring! 🙄 I say…get what the mood strikes for when you’re already making a healthy change like this!

SWEETPEA Nutriton Tip:

When you have a child who doesn’t eat vegetables, or enough variety here’s a place to hide them! Now….green zucchini can stick out like a sore thumb here but yellow squash will NOT. Hide this veggie in your kids favorite sauce and toss it well. They won’t know what hit them!

Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup

Finally perfected it just the way i like it. I hope you like it this way too! Serves 12 Ingredients: 2 Celery 1 large onion 2 large carrots 2 zucchini 1 yukon gold potato 1, 28oz can of chopped tomatoes 4 tbsp tomato paste 1, 

Pierogi Lasagna

Pierogi Lasagna

Serves 6

I never know what to do with leftover lasagna noodles. This is by far my favorite thing now! True comfort food for the winter but light on the calories!

Ingredients:

1-2c of florets cauliflower

1-2 yukon gold potatoes, cut into large chunks

1 large onion, sliced

1 tbsp butter

1/4c skim milk

6 lasagna noodles, cooked

3/4c 2% cheddar cheese

Directions:

Make mashed potatoes! Boil potato for about 5 minutes and then add cauliflower. Cook until fork tender. Mash with a potato masher and add 1/2 of the butter and skim milk. Set aside.

Use the rest of the butter and add it to a small skillet. Add onion and cook until translucentish/brown. Add some salt and set aside.

Take a small pyrex dish and add some onions to the bottom and cooking spray. Place three lasagna noodles on the bottom. Add 1/2 the cauliflower potato mixture, onions and then cheese. Add the other three noodles, potato mixture onion and rest of the cheese.

Bake covered for 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. Uncover cook another 10 and then broil for a few minutes until top gets a little brown.

Serve with low fat sour cream!

Nutrition facts:

Calories: 106kcal

Protein: 5.6g

Carbs: 19.7g

Fiber: 1.4g

Fat: 1.7g

Green Giant

Green Giant

Who said it’s not easy being green??? I think it’s delicious! 🐸 This shake has protein, b vitamins for energy and vitamin C for immunity. What else could you ask for? Ingredients 1, 6oz container of non fat plain green yogurt 1/4c water 1c frozen 

Sesame Chicken in the crockpot

Sesame Chicken in the crockpot

Serves 4 I like 3-4 hour crock pot dinners! Gives me time to come home, start dinner, get my $hI&& together and then pour a glass of wine while my house smells awesome and dinner is ready! Ingredients: 2, large chicken breast cut into 1 

Sesame Tofu

Sesame Tofu

Simple Sesame Tofu

I love it for my son because he’s difficult with eating protein, as most toddlers are! I at least know if i make this he’ll have it several days out of the week. I find myself having to pry the uncooked pieces out of his hand while i’m prepping this because he just can’t wait! It’s ok to have this raw marinated but it tastes much better when it’s cooked 🙂
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 1 block of firm tofu
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tsp sesame oil
  • sesame seeds

Instructions
 

  • Slice tofu in half and half again and then large chunks. You can basically cut this any way you want. For toddlers, the more it resembles a finger food the more they enjoy it.
  • Place in a bowl with soy sauce and sesame oil and toss it to combine but be careful not to break up tofu. Place in refrigerator for 3o minutes. Toss gently here and there.
  • Heat a non-stick pan or a cast iron skillet. You can spray non stick pan with pam. Cook on medium high heat and flip until brown. You can cook it as long as you like. I usually do about 3-5 minutes and then flip.
  • Serve warm OR cold. I have the leftovers in a bag in the refrigerator. I love snacking on these leftovers cold!

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Notes

Nutrition Facts:
Calories: 100kcal
Protein: 10g
Fat: 1g
Carbs: 2g
Fiber: 0g

Israeli Salad

Israeli Salad

Don’t be fooled by this simple salad. It has a lot to offer! Use this as a side that goes well with basically everything, dump the leftovers into a larger salad for instant flavor and dressing or add it to your wraps and sandwiches to