Journeying towards Health Together: Recipes, Community Updates

Lots of people struggle with recipes when they are trying to "go healthy".  The task of looking up recipes and then buying a bunch of expensive products your not used to using can make the job arduous at best.  So, let's simplify things:

Start with recipes you know very well already. You know, the ones you've been making forever off the top of your head.  Dust that old recipe off and give it a new face. Take a minute and consider what would you like to change about it, even if it is perfect as it is.  Think of a way to modify that deliciousness into something new.  For example, say you love macaroni and cheese, and you make it the best and you love it just the way it is. Awesome, keep that fattening beast for when you want it most, a Friday night special or a holiday treat.  But what else can you do with it that makes it healthier?  Perhaps you can try changing the added butter fat you probably use to a vegan butter? Now that was easy, and good vegan butter is really as delicious as dairy butter. 

Well let's see what else we might try to make it a little healthier for more frequent consumption than just holidays.   How about if you modify how much you eat by transforming it into something a little different, like stuffed macaroni and cheese tomato or stuffed pepper?  I don't know, how brave are you? How about adding chunks of roasted sweet potato and broccoli to it?  Okay, no good? How about adding some broccoli as a side dish that is steamed with squeezed lemon juice and serve smaller portions of your mac with a small lean meat and fruit on the side. Don't forget to add a couple of vegetables to fill you up (steamed or low fat or no fat added).  How about adding black or red beans to the mac and cheese and perhaps creating a chili mac with added diced tomato, lean meet (or beans only) and chili seasoning and cumin. 

Here's the challenge: Come up with your favorite recipe and modify it. Then over the next month, modify two more times.  Keep us posted on the blog with what recipe you started with, and any modifications. You don't have to tell us your whole story all at once, come back and give us an update.  It will be great, and we can learn something new.  Well, I'm starting with my recipe I just tried for "Impossible Burgers" ...an imposter.  I love Impossible Burgers and Beyond Beef burgers, but I don't love the price. Now I can make them for a fraction of the cost. I provided the link to the online recipe I found at the end of this blog.  It was a good start, but I need to modify it two or three different ways. 1. It calls for white rice, changing that next time. 2. It calls for Canola oil, I partially changed out, will do more next time. 3. I used too much red beet...please someone define what is a small beet, it wasn't mine!  Overall, the burgers smelled good, a little too red from too much added shredded beets but, the flavor was on point. It was great. My burgers were also a little too soft too, not bad though. The beet was too big and added too much fluid. Until next time. 

 https://www.thespruceeats.com/homemade-impossible-burger-4801190