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30 Superfood Recipes You've Never Tried Before. You might also like: 50 Creative Ways to Eat More Quinoa Read More What the heck are these superfood things people keep talking about?

30 Superfood Recipes You've Never Tried Before

Certain foods (mainly fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and seeds) are particularly packed with essential nutrients including vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. From avocado to zucchini, we’ve got the low-down on these super-powered foods that can boost health from the inside out. Just because they’re superfoods doesn’t necessarily mean they’re super-complicated to prepare, though. Breakfast Thanks to pumpkin puree, cinnamon, and milk (of your choice), this hearty oatmeal packs a nutritional punch with four superfoods and less than five minutes of prep time. These baked eggs pack 12.5 grams of protein per serving so you don't need a mid-morning snack. A perfect on-the-go breakfast, this smoothie recipe features a delicious combination of four superfoods: kale, banana, almond butter, and chia seeds. Lunch Beets are back! Dinner Snacks Craving potato chips? Eating Clean – Approved Foods List. While I have been trying to eat clean, I keep trying to figure out what is considered “clean” food.

Eating Clean – Approved Foods List

The main food I think of when I hear “clean eating” is chicken and veggies. Thankfully, there are a LOT more foods that are considered clean! The Suburban Girl Gone Country. 11 Dessert Hacks that Satisfy Cravings but are Secretly Healthy. Is dessert your diet's achilles heel?

11 Dessert Hacks that Satisfy Cravings but are Secretly Healthy

Well, we have that in common. But often, the psychology of having something sweet is more powerful than the actual need for something that will sabotage your time in the gym. Here's a list of awesome treats from around the web that seem much more sinful than they actually are! These treats are not only delicious, they also have secret weapon ingredients that are actually good for you. 1. There are many varieties of the pumpkin pie smoothie on blogs across the web; this one in particular from the blog Food Plus Words is packed with secret healthy weapons. Secret weapon #1: Tofu. Secret weapon #2: Pumpkin puree. Quinoa pudding. Rice pudding with a generous dose of cinnamon on top has always been one of my favorite desserts.

Quinoa pudding

There’s really nothing like it for me. Growing up, my mom would say something like, “Guess what we have for dessert,” in this sort of secretive voice and then we’d get all giddy. I was craving the rice pudding of my youth the other day so I went over to the ever-inspiring, Cannelle et Vanille because I figured, with her Spanish (well, Basque) heritage she’d more then likely have a pretty authentic recipe. And she did. BUT, what she also had was a similar recipe using quinoa instead. I absolutely love quinoa. The process was very similar to making rice pudding actually.

The main difference being that you cook the quinoa in a combination of milk, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and a pinch of salt instead of water. Just let the quinoa do its thing until it’s nice and soft. Custom Energy & Protein Bars You Design Yourself - Youbars - Buildabar. Our Build-A-Bar page is designed to make it easy and fun to create your ideal custom energy bars.

Custom Energy & Protein Bars You Design Yourself - Youbars - Buildabar

Simply select the ingredients you like and name your bar at the bottom of the page. If there is an ingredient you want that is not listed, please type it into a Special Request box and we will do our best to source it for you. In addition, if you are having trouble creating specific nutritional configurations such as 20g of protein, please enter those requirements in a Special Request box, and we will try our best to make it. Remember to try our taste tester at the bottom of the page for suggestions on your custom energy bar. And if you do not like your bars for any reason please let us know and we would be happy to help you reformulate your recipe, remaking your bars free of charge. Need Help Creating a Bar? Choose one or two(We recommend selecting dates with any nut butter.

Special Requests Choose one or two(Unless otherwise specified, all dried fruits and berries are unsweetened.) Vitamins & Minerals. Vitamins for the Bodybuilder Bodybuilding relies greatly on a successful diet.

Vitamins & Minerals

However, this diet is different from some other diets from other athletes in the way that it is very specific in how the different micronutrients are broken down. As you all know, the bodybuilder will require more protein than for convential diets or for other athletes. Due to this high intake of protein, far greater demands are placed on micronutrients and can deplete levels already stored in the body. A multivitamin will be the perfect solution to minimize any potential harmful effect such a high quanity of protein will have on the body. Aside from helping your bodand can deplete levels already stored in the body. Aside from helping your body and your immune system, vitamins are essential for repairing muscles. The $11 Trillion Reward. The World's Healthiest Foods. 100 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating.

The World's Healthiest Foods

Links to the articles about these foods can be found below. In addition to questions about our foods, we often get asked about beverages and sweeteners. In the beverage category, water and green tea have been especially popular topics, and in the sweetener category, so have blackstrap molasses, honey and maple syrup. Of course, there are many other nutritious foods other than those that we have included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them.