Vegtable Stir Fry

Serves: 4

Serve with a side of brown rice and you've got a tasty meal.
Ingredients for sauce:
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 teaspoon soy sauce

Ingredients for vegetables:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 cup broccoli florets
1 cup carrot slices
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup chopped zucchini
1 cup chopped red or green pepper

DIRECTIONS
1. Combine the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl.
2. In a large sauce pan or wok, heat vegetable oil over medium heat. Add onion, broccoli, carrots, and celery. Stir and cook for about 2 minutes.
3. Add the zucchini and peppers, stir, cover the pan and cook for 1 minute.
4. Add sauce, bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute, covered. Serve vegetables while hot.
This is AMAZING!!!! 
Recipe from Babyfit.com
~Mommy of 6 <3

Healthy Breakfast

So in case you haven't noticed, I LOVE BREAKFAST!!!  The best meal of the day!  But being from the south, I would love to sit down to a bowl of grits and a huge plateful of biscuits and sausage gravy, with eggs on the side!  However, My hips would NEVER forgive me!  So I try to eat a healthy breakfast, so that I start my day off right.  I found this awesome article the other day with some breakfasts on it.  The author of Eat This, Not That, also has a website, and guess where I found that article....  You got it, on that website!  Here are a few I liked!!!

Quick and Healthy Oatmeal
Ingredients:
1 cup Vanilla Soy milk
1/2 sup Old Fashioned Oats
1/4 cup Blueberries or Raspberries
1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup

Directions:
1.Combine milk and oats in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil.  Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Serve topped with berries and maple syrup.
Only 360.7 calories, 7.4 g fat, 0.6 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 57.9 g Carbs, 17.8 g sugars, 8.1 g dietary fibers, and 18.3g of protein to each serving!

Easy Cheesy Mushroom Scramble
Ingredients:
3 eggs
1/2 cup pre-sliced fresh mushrooms
1 ounce 2% shredded Mozzarella
1 teaspoon pam cooking spray

1. Crack eggs into bowl, and whisk to break yolks.
2. Add mushrooms and cheese
3. Spray pam on hot pan
4. Add eggs and cook until firm sirring and flipping often.
5. and in my case, I end sharing with at least three of my six kids!  LOL!

293.1 calories, 19.1g fat, 7.2 g saturated fat, 649.7mg cholesterol, sodium 414.2 mg sodium, 3.3 g carbs, 1.7 g sugars, 0.4 g dietary fiber, 28.1 g protein

Hope that helps add to your healthy breakfast recipes!!!
~Mommy of 6 &lt;3

A new Food Pryamid Icon

The first lady and the USDA revealed a new easier to read food group icon.  The news is everywhere about it.  This new food group plate icon will replace the older food guide pryamid.  This new icon is a pie-graph-like image which places more visual emphasis on fruits and vegetables.  Unlike the pryamid, I do find it easier to read.  The USDA is hoping that the plate metaphor will help more people portion their foods so that: half the plate is fruits and vegetables and it looks like a little more than a quarter should be grains and the rest protein, plus some dairy. Like the old pyramid, there's no mention of serving sizes, since those can vary greatly and be very confusing.  I can not wait to print this and show it to my kiddos!  We love our diet full of fresh fruits and vegies, so this makes us happy! 

What is your take on the new icon?  What are your opinions?  What does your ideal Myplate look like?

Asian Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

1/4 C wasabi flavored mayonnaise 

1/4 C low fat plain yogurt 

4 C chopped cooked chicken 

2 ribs celery, sliced 

1 pkg (6 oz) asian salad greens 

1 C seedless red grapes, halved

1/2 C chopped toasted walnuts 

Directions:

1. Stir together mayonnaise and yogurt, and add salt and pepper to taste.
2. Add chicken and celery, and toss to coat.
3. Arrange greens on 4 plates. Top with chicken salad. Scatter grapes and walnuts over all.

Breakfast Burrito

Ingredients:
2 tbsp salsa
1/4 C shredded low-fat cheddar cheese
1/4 C fresh cilantro
1 large egg plus 4 large egg whites, beaten
1/2 C diced lean ham
1 large (8'') whole-wheat tortilla

Directions

1. In a nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, saute the diced ham over medium-high heat, just until the surface starts to brown. Place the cooked ham in the tortilla, then add more cooking spray to the skillet and scramble the eggs together with the cilantro. Add the eggs to the tortilla, top with the cheese and salsa, and fold.
Mommy of 6 <3

Immunity Boosting Juices

2 Juices guaranteed to boost immunities, or ward off colds.  How do you think I survive the cold season and don't get colds???  Come on I have six kids, three in school!!!  LOL!  These are healthy and don't taste bad!!!  Can it be true? 

Yes....  yes it can be....

Ingredients:
4-5 large carrots
Small handful of parsley
1 clove garlic
1 apple, cored

Directions:
Run ingredients through juicer. Strain. The parsley takes care of the garlic odor, and the apple sweetens the juice.

Ingredients:
6 large carrots
2 stalks celery, cut into 1" chunks
Handful of parsley
2 cloves of garlic

Directions:
Process all ingredients through juicer. Strain. This is a great juice to ward off colds.
Enjoy
Mommy of 6 <3