E's Favorite Health Food

In a new weekly post, I will list a few of my favorite healthy foods. May be a product, a piece of food, or an entire meal. This week, I'll give you all three to wet your appetite for more. Let me know what you think, if you ever use or make what I put on here.

Product: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter SPRAY - It contains virtually NO negative anything. It's ZERO calories, ZERO fat, ZERO everyone...except taste. I'm a HUGE butter lover, so when I saw this in one of the recipes on the Biggest Loser site, I was skeptical, but figured I needed to change my thoughts on it all. I was impressed! It tastes GREAT, and the guilt factor on using a few more sprays than the serving size won't hurt you either. Click the link above to read the nutritional info.

Piece of Food: CHICKEN. Hands down my favorite piece of meat if I can't have a juicy steak. And since steak won't be on my diet much, I'm glad I like this meat so much. I can have it any way, and I'll love it. Yum.

Recipe: This is from the Biggest Loser website, since that's what I've followed 99% of the time for the last three weeks. It's my favorite lunch time meal that is super easy to make if you don't have time to cook anything bigger, and something I make most days of the week anyway, because it tastes great and it is that easy.

Andrea's Turkey Wrap

INGREDIENTS:

6 ounces 99% fat free ground turkey breast
2 pieces butter lettuce - you use the lettuce as your bun, and you put a little butter on it - OR the spray from above!!! (you can use any lettuce that is big enough to use as your bun)
8 thin slices cucumber
2 tablespoons low fat miso Caesar dressing (I use Kraft Lite Italian)
2 tablespoons fresh alfalfa sprouts
2 tablespoons fresh bean sprouts
Salt and pepper to taste

Form the turkey into one patty, about 4 ½ inches in diameter. Season the patty with salt and pepper (or any low/non-salt spice you want) and grill until cooked, about 3 to 4 minutes on each side (I've found that 7 mins in a George Forman grill is perfect).

Cut the patty in half and place each half in the center of one of the butter lettuce leaves. Top burgers with vegetables. Drizzle with dressing, and wrap lettuce around burger and vegetables.

I never have the bean sprouts on hand, but I do have (and LOVE) alfalfa sprouts, so I have the recipe minus the bean sprouts, and then go no salt and heavy pepper (LOVE PEPPER!!!).

Yeild: 2 servings - Notice, you are making TWO burgers. My meals only say to eat one serving, so what I do it make one, then throw the other burger in the fridge to have the next day's lunch.


There you go. Hope you enjoyed this little post I'll be doing regularly. Keep checking back. Not sure when I'll update this regular posting, but I plan to do it sooner than later for right now.

E