Healthy/Low calorie recipes

Divider Graphics

181 calorie whole wheat bagels.                            

I got this recipe from allrecepies.com but I changed it a little bit.

Ingredients

  • 4 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
  • 1 1/2 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
  • 3 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar

Directions

  1. In large bowl, combine 1-1/2 cups flour and yeast. Mix water, 3 tablespoons sugar and salt together, and add to the dry ingredients. Beat with a mixer for half a minute at a low speed, scraping the sides of the bowl clean. Beat at a higher speed for 3 minutes. Then, by hand, mix in enough flour to make a moderately stiff dough.
  2. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (8-10 minutes). Cover, let rest for 15 minutes.
  3. Cut into 12 portions, shape into smooth balls. Poke a hole in the center with your finger, and gently enlarge the hole while working the bagel into a uniform shape. Cover, let rise 20 minutes.
  4. Meanwhile, start a gallon of water boiling. Put 1 tablespoon of sugar in it, mix it around a bit. Reduce to simmering.
  5. When the bagels are ready, put 4 or 5 bagels into the water, and cook 7 minutes, turning once. Drain them. Place on a greased baking sheet, and bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven, eat hot or cold.
  6. Broiling option: For a glossier surface, place raised bagels on an ungreased baking sheet prior to boiling them. Broil them five inches from heat for 1 to 1-1/2 minutes on each side. Then put them into the hot water to be boiled as above. Note: do not bake broiled bagels as long as non-broiled ones, 25 minutes should be long enough.

*****You may have to use a little bit more water since you are using whole wheat flour. Just add it a tiny bit at a time as you knead. Dont add more until any water you already kneaded is completely kneaded in. Also, If you have a dough hook for your standing mixer, you can use that to do most of the kneading. <3

Divider Graphics

100-200 calorie Spinach mango/peach smoothie.

Ingrediants:

1/2 cup frozen mango chunks

1/2 cup frozen peach slices

1/2 baby spinach

1 cup orange juice

Stevia to taste. (Stevia is 0 calorie all natural sweetener)

Instructinons:

Blend!

***You can use any sweetener you want, or none at all because it is actually already quite sweet from the mango! Definitely take a taste before adding the sweetener in!:)

****This is more of a double recipe. its 200 calories. Cut all the ingrediants in half for a smaller recipe that is 100 calories! I usually make the 100 calorie recipe, The spinach will add alot of filling to the smoothie.

** One more thing, I swear you cant really taste the spinach at all, But it is super healthy and fills you up a ton. :)

Divider Graphics

80-160 calorie Strawberry/rasberry smoothie.

Ingrediants:

1 cup strawberries

1/2 cup rasberries

1 cup Motts for tots apple juice

Stevia to taste.(0 calorie all natural sweetener)

Instructions:

Blend!

**This is more of a double recipe(160 calories). I usually cut the recipe in half for 80 calories. :)

**Also, you can use regular apple juice and not add any sweetner if you want. I use motts for tots because its apple juice with 40% less sugar(wich means less calories..) And then I add in stevia(Wich has no calories) to make up for the loss of sugar!:)

**This is also good with orange juice.

Divider Graphics

80 calorie frozen banana chocolate icecream.

I can not take credit for this one-but I cant remember where I got it. However, it was my idea to make it chocolate:)

Ingrediants:

1 banana

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Stevia 0 calorie natural sweetener) to taste. (or any other sweetener you would like.)

Instructions:

Peel and slice banana into coin shaped slices.

Put the banana in a tuperware and freeze over-night.

Take the frozen banana out of the freezer and put it into the blender. Blend until creamy. At first the banana with get kind of crumbly, but push it down the sides of the blender with a spatula and keep blending. Blend until it gets to the texture of soft-serve icecream.

Next, add the cocoa and stevia. blend until mixed completely!

Done! You can also freeze this to get it to the texture of regular ice cream. But its really good right out of the blender.

**There are tons of different things you could put into this.. peanutbutter, chocolate chips, strawberries.. try it out and see what you like!

** also, if the texture is too liquidy for you you can add some ice. That way you wont have to freeze it overnight to get it thicker. It does make it icier, but I think its very good that way! :)

Divider Graphics

105 calorie carrot fries. recipe from: http://destroying-perfection.tumblr.com/ <33

Ingrediants:

Carrots

Olive oil

Instructions:

Slice the carrots into fry shaped pieces. Put olive oil onto them(it only takes a little). And bake for roughly 25 minutes-until slighly crispy. Then add whatever spices you want.

Garlic salt, seasoning salt, cinnamon, pepper, salt, or whatever sounds good to you.

**105 calories is for 3 medium carrots and 1/4 tbs olive oil.

Divider Graphics

 130 calorie Salad Sandwich.
 
Ingrediants:
1/2 romaine lettuce
1/2 small/medium tomato
2 slices of whole wheat bread(I use natures own-only 50cal per slice!)
1 tsp honey mustard
 
Instructions:
Slice the half tomato into rounds, And cut the lettuce into small pieces that will fit on the bread. Toast the bread, add the honey mustard, lettuce and tomato. Done!
 
This sandwich is incredibly filling for how little calories it has! Try it out, it’s my new favorite!
 
***This is also really good with some ranch, regular mustard, a little salad dressing of your choice, or mayo and salt and pepper instead of the honey mustard! Try it out and see what you like!