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5 on Friday
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5 on Friday
Although I like to cook, I don’t always have time to prepare an “elaborate” meal for my family. Often times I find shortcuts, cut corners, substitute here and there in order to prepare something that is not only delicious and healthy (ier) but also less time consuming in the kitchen (while also staying on budget).
I am starting a new *series* if you want to call it that where every Friday I am going to post a recipe (s) that only require Five Ingredients (cooking oil/spray,spices, water, salt & pepper are freebies).
This will hopefully get you going for your menu planning for the following week.
I will start the series off with the meal I prepared last night…Beef & Broccoli.
Ingredients
1-2 lb thin cut steak (I often times by Beef for Stir Fry and/or have butcher slice the meat; meat at Albertsons was BOGO this week) **Lower cost alternative would be the Carne Asada Beef**
1 lb broccoli florets (fresh or frozen; I used the steamable bags of broccoli since on sale at Albertsons for $1.25/each)
1 large onion (diced)
2 tablespoons of soy sauce mixed with 3/4 cup of water
1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in soy sauce/water (for thickening)
Freebie: Water, Vegetable Oil or Olive Oil
1 Coat pan with 2 tablespoons of oil.
2 Stir in beef and onion , let cook until golden brown on med heat, stirring frequently (apporx 10-15 mins)
3 Prepare sauce in medium bowl
4 Blanch the broccoli in a small pot of boiling water OR throw in microwave if steamables but do not cook entirely (4-7 mins).
5 Once meat is golden brown, add broccoli & sauce
6 Cook covered on med heat for 10-15 mins longer stirring frequently while the sauce settles into the beef and broccoli.
Serves 6 (we even had leftovers)
Pair with a side of Asian salad (Lettuce, Cucumber, Mandarin Oranges, Asian Noodles & Kraft Asian Toasted Sesame Dressing) OR Rice and you have yourself dinner!
D-E-L-I-S-H!
Holiday Weight Gain and How to Prevent It
The holidays are a time of year when we’re all really challenged by the food around us! It’s by far the worst time of year, for many of us who are trying to be good. Those of us on a healthy eating plans are also really challenged too. This time of year is hard for everyone even if your a seasoned fitness professional, a health and wellness guru or not. We all have foods which are “off” of our lists as regularly consumable foods. Whether we know it or not, we all have a subconscious mental list of foods we view as “OK” to consume regularly. At this time of year it’s increasingly challenging to be confronted and visually challenged almost daily by the “Not OK” foods.
I find it very hard to walk into the office lunch room and find a table of cookies, brownies, pies and pudding desserts and not at least have a little, we all do. The key is trying them and limiting your intake to smaller quantities, so you don’t totally fall off of your healthy living plan. The key is learning to limit your intake, but not to deny yourself.
We often will say to ourselves, “I’ll eat this then go exercise afterward” If you make the promise to yourself and follow through. If you do let yourself indulge, in the desserts follow up with a lot of exercise afterward. You’ll feel much better about yourself afterward.
We can’t live life in a vacuum, if you think you can, your fooling yourself. We need to put the food around us in perspective, we are in charge not the food! We need to be accountable for our actions and need to develop a health relationship with food. Food needs viewed in the perspective as energy and nutrition. Food is not and should not be viewed as emotional fulfillment.
As many people have, I gone up and down with my weight from having children and sports injuries over the years. The holidays each year as almost a turning point in the year. Use this time of the year to re-evaluate yourself, where are you now? Where do you want to be? How you want your new year to start? Do you want your new year started on the right or wrong foot? You decide.
