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3 Ingredient Paleo Naan (Indian bread) - My Heart Beets. 52 Healthy Meals in 12 Minutes or Less. Being hungry sucks (it’s a scientific fact). So why spend hours cooking a gourmet feast when a nutritious meal could be only 12 minutes away from getting from the kitchen to your plate? Skip the grumbling tummy, the hangriness, and the cranky guests, and serve up any one of these 52 healthy meals that are so quick and easy, you’ll wonder why you ever ordered takeout. 1. Cacao and Blueberry Smoothie Um, YUM. 2. Say goodbye to boring toast. 3. You can have salad for breakfast, too. 4. This healthy breakfast is a little more of a healthy dessert, but we’ll let it slide. 5. Take a trip to the tropics with this pineapple and coconut flavored breakfast. 6. It doesn’t get much better (or easier!) 7. This blogger has recipes for four different flavors of awesome instant oats: blueberry vanilla, chocolate banana, walnut and date, and strawberries and cream. 8.

Peanut butter toast might be a classic, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring! 9. 10. 11. Leggo that Eggo! 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 1. DIY Instant Noodles That You Can Make Just About Anywhere. I was going to call these “Intrepid Noodles”, but I thought I was pushing it a bit. North American college students call them “ramen”, here in New Zealand we usually say “2 minute noodles” and in Asia it’s “easy noodles” or “Mama” in Thailand. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I am talking about. We’ve all resorted to eating them when too tired to cook or just in need of a bit of warm, soupy junk food after taste testing too much local beer. But, did you know it is very easy and cheap to make your own?

You can even, and I know this sort of defeats the purpose, add vegetables to make them nutritious. These are really great for the first day of a trek, or even later in the trek if you use dried veggies. Here’s what you need: A bowl with a lid, or some foil, or a plate, or a takeaway box, or a mug you can cover or just something you can rig up to let the water out without losing your noodles. Access to boiling water How to make your instant noodles: Test the noodles for doneness and drain. Flu Wiki Forum:: Homemade Instant and Convenience Foods. Road Food: DIY Instant Oat Mix: Hemp Seed and Blueberry - Wassner Twins - As I prepped for last month’s Philadelphia Triathlon, my first triathlon in over a year, I fretted about what to put in my transition bag, whether my wetsuit would still fit, and what to eat for breakfast in the hotel room. The free hotel breakfast is never an option, since most races start well before the waffle irons get fired up.

And if you are like me, an energy bar for breakfast is never satisfying. For my first big race post-baby, I mixed up a new version of my go-to road breakfast: DIY instant oat mixes. I like to pack a mix of oats and toppings that I’ve been eating regularly before my big workouts. Lately, this has been hemp seeds for extra protein and dried blueberries for extra antioxidants. For the oats, I prefer instant steel-cut oats (you can find them at Trader Joe’s) over regular instant oats that can easily turn to mush. The quantity and proportion of the mix-ins is a personal preference. —Bec DIY Instant Oat Mix: Hemp Seed and Blueberry -3/4 cup instant steel cut oats.

What Happens In Your Body When You Eat Ramen And Gatorade. By Briana Rognlin for Blisstree.com Most of the time, we hear about avoiding processed foods because they'll make us fat. But a new video of what happens in your body when you eat Top Ramen and Gatorade vs. homemade noodles and drinks gives us a whole new reason to avoid it: We can't even digest it properly. More from Blisstree.com:These Preservatives Are Trying To Kill YouWhy Vaseline Is Bad For You, And What To Use Instead6 Things You Should Never Buy (And Their Healthy Alternatives) TEDxManhattan 2011 Fellow Stefani Bardin's video, below, shows what happens in your body when you eat processed foods vs. homemade versions of similar foods, using a tiny "M2A" (that stands for Mouth to Anus, and it's trademarked, mind you) LED/camera capsule.

Warning: It's best to watch this video after you've eaten your breakfast. Related on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow. Wrap Alternatives. Gena Hamshaw of the blog Choosing Raw eats a mostly raw, vegan diet without losing time, money or her sanity. Let her show you how to make "rabbit food" taste delicious and satisfying every other Thursday on Food52. Today: Gena turns the traditional wrap on its head by putting the greens on the outside, with a recipe for Collard Wraps with Herbed Cashew Spread and Roast Peppers. When you're vegan and your diet consists primarily of raw foods, it's not uncommon for your classmates, coworkers, friends or family, to eye one of your dishes with incredulity. The "cashew cheese" that looks totally normal to you might look like white goo to somebody else; the sheet of nori stuffed with hummus, beets and spinach may strike someone who's used to conventional sushi as totally bizarre.

The green smoothie you make so frequently that you could blend it up with your eyes closed may prompt in a houseguest a look of total shock. I have a lot of these moments. "What," she asked, "is that? " 1. 2. 3.