Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts

Fat Free, Tea Cheesecakes - Your Healthy Alternative to Cheesecake Desserts

Cheesecakes are not exactly known as being healthy snacks. Sugar, cream cheese and whip cream are three of the main ingredients, not exactly healthy in their own regard. But here are two recipes for cheesecakes that won't completely ruin that new diet your on. The first two are tasty, with the flavor coming from tea. The third recipe is a standard low fat cheesecake. All three are healthier than your usual cheesecake. This was made for those who are looking for a dessert, but are constrained because of diets and other health reasons. We hope you enjoy the cheesecakes, and your free to share the recipes with your friends and families.

Chai Tea Latte Cheesecake

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Ingredients:

Fat Free, Tea Cheesecakes - Your Healthy Alternative to Cheesecake Desserts

6 Chai Spice tea bags for the flavor of the cheesecake.
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 8 oz container of fat free cream cheese softened
1 6 oz or 9 inch graham cracker pie crust.

Directions:

First step, you'll want to put the six Chai Spice tea bags in a cup with 1/2 cup boiling water . Let it steep for a whole 5 minutes. Then in a large bowl, combine the concentrate of Chai tea, cream cheese and sugar. Next beat well with an electric mixer. Add your eggs and mix again until blended smooth. Pour the final mix into the crust and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool in refrigerator for approximately 3 hours or overnight.

Green Tea

* 3/4 cup white sugar

* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

* 1 tablespoon green tea powder

* 2 eggs, beaten

* 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker pie crust

* 2 (8 ounce) containers fat-free cream cheese, softened

DIRECTIONS.

First, Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Second, In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese and the sugar until completely blended and smooth. Next, mix in the green tea powder, eggs, and vanilla extract until light and creamy. After it is mixed well, pour the contents into the prepared crust.

Third, bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes. A god way to know if the cheesecake is ready is that the center will jiggle evenly when the cake is shaken lightly. Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.

Low Fat

Not a tea fan? Here's a recipe for a standard low fat cheesecake.

INGREDIENTS

* 1 (16 ounce) package cottage cheese

* 2 egg yolks, beaten

* 3/4 cup milk

* 1/2 cup white sugar

* 1 pinch salt

* 2 (.25 ounce) envelopes unflavored gelatin

* 1/2 cup boiling water

* 1/8 cup lemon juice

* 2 egg whites

* 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust

DIRECTIONS

1. Force cottage cheese through a sieve, or pulse until creamy in a food processor or blender; set aside

2. In a medium saucepan, combine egg yolks, milk, sugar and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened; remove from heat. In a small bowl, dissolve gelatin in water. Stir into the custard mixture. Stir in creamed cottage cheese and lemon juice.

3. In a large glass or metal mixing bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold whites into cheese mixture. Pour filling into graham cracker crust. Chill for several hours in the refrigerator before serving.

And there you have it. 3 recipes that are sure to solve your cheesecake cravings, without as much negatives as most desserts. Serve them at a party, a club, or just cook one up your self at home. We're sure your going to enjoy them.

Fat Free, Tea Cheesecakes - Your Healthy Alternative to Cheesecake Desserts

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Two Fat-Free and Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes

You can be ambitious and healthy at the same time thanks to healthy slow cooker recipes. They help you juggle between home and workplace without giving you guilt pangs of not cooking healthy food for yourself and your family.

Read on to find out about two simple, yummy and healthy slow cooker recipes, that are purely vegetarian.

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Whole Cauliflower Baked

Two Fat-Free and Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes

If you're on a weight loss program, cauliflower is a great vegetable for you. It's low in fat and carbs, besides safeguarding you from cancer.

INGREDIENTS: 1 big size cauliflower head, 2 tablespoonful Parmesan cheese, half a cup of seasoned bread crumbs, 1/8 teaspoonful garlic powder and salt, ¼ cup melted margarine, and a pinch of dried oregano and red pepper flakes.

METHOD:

• Place the cauliflower head in a steamer basket.

• Put this basket in a big pot.

• Add an inch of water and cover it with a lid. Let it boil at moderate heat.

• Cook the cauliflower for 20 - 25 minutes until it softens.

• Take a bowl and mix parmesan cheese, melted margarine, and bread crumbs in it. Add garlic powder, oregano, red pepper flakes, and salt for flavor.

• Remove the cauliflower from the basket and put it in a baking dish. Coat the breadcrumb mixture over it.

• Let it bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 - 15 minutes until it gets golden brown.

• Serve piping hot.

Vegetable Casserole with Cheese

This is one of the tastiest slow cooker crockpot recipes containing a variety of vegetables making it nutritious and savory.

INGREDIENTS: A cup of cooked brown rice, a cup each of frozen and thawed cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, and sweet corn, half teaspoonful each of garlic pepper, cinnamon, and salt, a bag (16oz) of sharp cheddar cheese shredded, a can (10.75oz) containing cream of mushroom soup, and a container (4oz) of sour cream.

METHOD:

• Put cooked rice, shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream, and mushroom soup in a slow cooker and stir well.

• Add the vegetables - beans, broccoli, cauliflower, and corn and mix well.

• Add garlic pepper, cinnamon, and salt for flavor.

• Cover the cooker and cook on low heat for a couple of hours.

• Serve hot.

There is yet another recipe for broccoli potato soup. However, if you are skeptical about eating potatoes due to weight issues, you can replace them with cauliflower.

Let's hope the above two healthy slow cooker recipes tickle your taste buds and find a prestigious place in your food menu. Try them!

Two Fat-Free and Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes

You can be ambitious and healthy at the same time thanks to healthy slow cooker recipes. Find out about slow cooker crockpot recipes that are purely vegetarian.

Healthy Cooking Methods - 3 Ways to Get Maximum Health Benefits From Your Food With Fat-Free Cooking

It's a proven fact that a healthy diet can help preventing your risk of numerous diseases, from high cholesterol over obesity, arteriosclerosis and heart disease to stroke, heart attack and diabetes. But what many don't know is that eating healthy foods is not enough.

The healthiest vegetables won't give you much good when you store them for weeks of hot summer weather in your kitchen or cook them until they dissolve in the cooking water. Cooking foods in water is still a very popular method, especially for vegetables, because it's often believed to be the quickest way of getting the food done. But it's certainly not the healthiest method, since water soluble nutrients are drawn out of your veggies and thrown away with the water, leaving your food with less nutrients than it could have.

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The secret of getting the maximum benefits from your healthy foods is to cook them in a way that retains nutrients best. Further, they should use little to no fat to prevent adding excess calories. Here are some much healthier and fat-free cooking methods that will help you to make the most out of your food:

  • Steaming
  • Stewing
  • Microwaving

Fat-Free Cooking Method #1: Steaming

Healthy Cooking Methods - 3 Ways to Get Maximum Health Benefits From Your Food With Fat-Free Cooking

Steaming requires a special pot with a sieve insert and a firmly closing lid. The bottom part of the pot contains the water for the steam production, whilst the food is lying on the sieve insert which does not touch the water. Foods are cooked in the steam rising from the water. For best results, steam foods of similar texture (for example potatoes and carrots) or size together. Steaming goes quicker than cooking in water and is much healthier since it retains a much higher amount of nutrients.

Fat-Free Cooking Method #2: Stewing

Foods can be stewed either in on the stove in a closed pot, or in the oven wrapped in foil. Adding fat is not needed, but for hard vegetables like pumpkin or carrots it's good to add some water or stock. Foods with a high water content, for example mushrooms, marrows or tomatoes, don't need additional water. When you use hard foods, stewing takes a while, but you can speed things up by cutting the vegetables into smaller pieces.

Fat-Free Cooking Method #3: Microwaving

Microwaving is quite a controversial cooking method. It's very popular, but there are also many who say it's health-harming. But authorities consider it safe since there is no scientific proof of microwave cooking having negative impact on our health. In fact, it's retaining nutrients better because of the shorter cooking times. Also, microwaving doesn't require any fat. It can be a great option for single people but is barely practical for cooking large amounts of food.

These three cooking methods allow you to prepare a great variety of healthy meals that contain no other fat then the one in your meat. Also, nutrients are retained very well, giving you more health benefits with every meal. These cooking methods are especially beneficial for people with weight problems or high cholesterol levels, since they allow you to cook with a minimum of fat, but even healthy people should make use of them to maintain their health and prevent illness.

Healthy Cooking Methods - 3 Ways to Get Maximum Health Benefits From Your Food With Fat-Free Cooking

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12 Amazing Power Foods to Build Muscle and Burn Fat to Keep You Healthy For Life

If you add these 12 power foods into your daily diet, your body will work effectively to build lean muscle mass and burn fat more efficiently.

Not only will these super foods build muscle and promote weight loss - it will strengthen your bones, lower blood pressure, fight cancer, improve your immune function and fight against heart disease.

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No matter what age you are, here are the 12 power foods to build muscle and burn fat (and keep you healthy for life)-

12 Amazing Power Foods to Build Muscle and Burn Fat to Keep You Healthy For Life

1) Non salted or smoked Almonds and other nuts

- Also great for controlling carvings
- Eat with skin intact

2) Beans and other legumes (including soybeans, chickpeas, pinot beans, navy beans, kidney beans and lima beans)

- Also helps to regulate digestion
- Avoid refried beans (high in saturated fats) and baked beans (high in sugar)

3) Spinach and other green vegetables

- Also helps to fight the molecules that accelerates the aging process
- Avoid frying vegetables and adding fatty cheese sauces

4) Fat free or low fat milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese

- Also build strong bones
- Avoid whole milk and frozen yogurt

5) unflavored, unsweetened oatmeal

- Great for energy, and fights against cholesterol and maintaining blood sugar levels
- Avoid flavored cereals

6) Eggs

- Eggs has the highest levels of protein of any food
- Protein in eggs are more effective for building muscle than any other protein from other sources, including milk and beef
- Contains vitamin B12, which helps to breakdown fat

7) Turkey and lean steak, chicken, fish

- Also improves the immune system
- No sausage, bacon, cured meats, ham, fatty cuts of steak like T-bone and rib eye

8) All natural, sugar free peanut butter

- Also boosts testosterone

9) Olive Oil

- Lowers cholesterol and boosts your immune system
- Avoid vegetable and hydrogenated vegetable oils, trans fatty acids, margarine

10) Whole Grain Breads and Cereals

- Stops the body from storing fat
- Avoid processed or refined carbs such as white bread, bagels, doughnuts and pasta made from white flour

11) Extra Protein Whey powder

- No soy protein

12) Raspberries and Other Berries

- Great for protecting your heart, improving your eye sight and memory, preventing cravings
- No sweetened jellies

Each of these healthy foods and weight loss boosters will keep you full longer on less calories.

And the best part is they all taste really good.

As a guideline, consider eating 3 standard meals and 3 smaller meals - add two or three of these foods into your three major meals and at least one of the foods into your snacks.

Do this along with exercise, you will build muscle and burn fat to keep you healthy!

12 Amazing Power Foods to Build Muscle and Burn Fat to Keep You Healthy For Life

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