OK, that title is an exageration. just like last week’s Thursday 13. Your choices and lifestyle are what make you fat or skinny, not only food. However, these 13 dishes helped me in my battle against the scale (a war that is not over yet). Next week I will post about the changes in my lifestyle I had to make to lose weight. But for now, enjoy these 13 healthier (compared to last week’s) recipes:
1. Breakfast bomba (or breakfast in a glass)
4. Nopalitos (prickly pear pads) salad
5. Chicken in a sweet/spicy lentil sauce
10. Jicama and chicken spring rolls
11. Turkey albondigas in tomatillo sauce
13. Tomatillo sauce Hawaiian pizza
There you have it 13 healthier recipes that helped in my fight against overweight. For those of you wondering why pizza made it to the list, well pizza is not bad for you. Unless it has a THICK crust overloaded with cheese and fat.
¡Buen provecho!
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22 Replies
happy tt and your food choices made me hungry.
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
There seems to be a preponderance of vegetables there, which rules many of them out for me. Tuna and quinoa cakes look delicious — but what is quinoa?
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
These dishes look delicious! You’ve proven that “diet” food doesn’t necessarily have to be awful.
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Some great looking food here, Ben, and congrats to you on getting healthy! I made a version of your chicken with sweet/spicy lentils the other day and it was great. I will be blogging it soon (I’m behind!). I’m glad for this roundup of great food since I’ve only just recently stumbled upon your blog and missed many of these the first time around.
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Some of those look too yummy to be skinny-making.
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
some good looking food there especially those jicama & chicken spring rolls. I think the best thing we did was start eating breakfast everyday, steel cut oats & a non-fat yogurt & fruit smoothie
Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Wow who would not want to eat and drink their foods if they are like this diet or not. Those are the best looking healthy foods I have seen in a long while.
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Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
My top 1 is probably lentils. Just a small bowl of it is so satisfying. It’s so easy to lose weight with dals.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 1:07 am
Great list! The tuna quinoa cakes have been on my to-make list since you posted them!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 3:51 am
Seeing as I’m on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots diets right now (12 lbs and counting), this blog caught my eye. I’m definitely making the Hawaiian pizza and the spring rolls. Yum!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 5:03 am
Everything in moderation is my philosophy Ben. Your healthy dishes all look fantastic but so did the 13 carb laden “make you fat ones”. Your food always looks good!!!!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 5:29 am
Some yummy looking dishes for me to try……great TT.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
I seriously want some of those recipes! Espcially number 4. Yum!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 9:54 am
All the dishes are flavorful and unique, which is key to the entire process. The salmon with granola looks especially good.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
oooh YUM, May I have one of each please??
wish you could give out the recipes!
everything looks great!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I just realized The recipes are herere! thanks
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I remember many of these… wonderful, healthy recipes!
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Great list bro! For some reason I’m gravitating towards the food in a pouch or wrapped up. Like the quinoa or the spring rolls. Oh, and Hawaiian pizza… heck yes
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Awesome! I love your selection of healthy recipes.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I’m back. Thanks for visiting – Just FYI, I linked to your article from 13 Annoying Things On the Web
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
All the above recipes looks very healthy and new to me . Wish I could get the ingredients to try few of those.
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 at 12:21 am
Wow. Great site. thanks. xo. Anu
Posted on September 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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