Favorite Healthy Snacks

Okay, I usually don’t pay a whole lot of attention to recipe articles because I’m a lazy bastard and wouldn’t take the time to prepare them anyway. It’s a good thing my wife likes to cook, because if it takes more than 5-10 minutes for me to make, it ain’t gettin’ made. Having said that I’ve found a snack lately that tastes awesome, fills me up, satisfies my sweet-tooth and is actually good for you. I’ll eat it 2-3 x’s/day.

1/2 C. Fiber One cereal
1/2 C. strawberries
3 packets Splenda
1 C. Carb Countdown fat-free milk

1g Fat/33g Carb(16g Fiber)/15g Protein/160 Kcal

That much splenda? I can see you’re their lab rat testing it out to see if it’s safe or not down the road…

Tungsten,
why do i detect you are not a fan of splenda?

I personally prefer a simple piece of fruit with some cottage cheese.

Tri-O-Plex Bar

pizza! haha.

Tri-O-Plex…

U gotta be kidding me. "
I like Soy, I like glycerin. tri-o-plex, tri-o-plex please deliver"

Read the labels dudes.
How bout checking out an article regarding making P+F snacks. There is a protein bar on there that tastes…EXACTLY, EXACTLY, like Eat more Chocolate bars. I apologize if you cats don’t get them in the states, but they are good.

here is basically the ingredients:

Chocolate protein powder- choose your brand. 4 scooops of grow (I am going from memory so forgive me)

1/4 cup of water. Yes that is all…it works like a charm.

4 heaping tbsp on natural Crunchy PB.

Splenda or sweetner to taste.

Mix it into a turd form. pack in plastic…man…heaven on Nutritional Earth. Lots of protein and a great ratio of fats.

The article is buy a guy name John Williams.

Czech it out.

T

Here’s one that I’ve used for a while:

1 packet Chocolate Sugar Free Jello Pudding
2 Cups Skim Milk
2 scoops whey protein
1 Cup Cottage Cheese

Slowly mix protein into milk with the pudding mix. Put in fridge for a couple hours. Mix in cottage cheese.

I hate cottage cheese and still like this because you can’t taste it.

The nutritional breakdown for the whole thing would be:
608 cals, 10g fat, 44g carbs, 88g protein.

Perfect for 4 small snacks.

Haven’t tried it with the Carb Countdown yet, but if it was substituted for the milk, the breakdown would be:
637 cals, 18g fat, 26g carbs, 96g protein.

I like pineapple, grape tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes), cucumber and shrimps.

[quote]TOTrev wrote:
Tri-O-Plex…

U gotta be kidding me. "
I like Soy, I like glycerin. tri-o-plex, tri-o-plex please deliver"

Read the labels dudes.
How bout checking out an article regarding making P+F snacks. There is a protein bar on there that tastes…EXACTLY, EXACTLY, like Eat more Chocolate bars. I apologize if you cats don’t get them in the states, but they are good.

here is basically the ingredients:

Chocolate protein powder- choose your brand. 4 scooops of Grow (I am going from memory so forgive me)

1/4 cup of water. Yes that is all…it works like a charm.

4 heaping tbsp on natural Crunchy PB.

Splenda or sweetner to taste.

Mix it into a turd form. pack in plastic…man…heaven on Nutritional Earth. Lots of protein and a great ratio of fats.

The article is buy a guy name John Williams.

Czech it out.

T[/quote]

Yeah , yeah, yeah. I knew someone would hose me on that one, however, I still like them, and none of my muscle cells have ever shrinked because I have choosen to eat one. Has any one tried a “Kong” bar by Designer? I think it’s along the same lines (oatmeal and protein), but with out the soy protein.

Turkey jerky from GNC, looks like mummified chicken mcnuggets but they taste good

Stop playing with that nasty stuff and eat some GOOD Junk. hehe I’ve made this as simple as it can be made and still turn out perfect. Try it. I have hundreds of more recipes.

Brownies (low carb)

Chef X - Brownies
Servings :10 minis
Amount Measure Ingredient – Preparation Method


31 grams unsalted butter
31 grams dark chocolate
11 gram protein Powder (low carb grow)
8 gram unsweetened cocoa powder
18 grams dark chocolate – chopped
1 large eggs
50 ml splenda

Cut the butter into smallish cubes and tip into a medium bowl. Break the dark chocolate (first part) into small pieces and drop into the bowl. Fill a small saucepan about a quarter full with very hot water, then sit the bowl on top so it rests on the rim of the pan, NOT touching the water. Put over low heat until the butter and chocolate have melted, stirring occasionally to mix them. Now remove the bowl from the pan. Leave the melted mixture to cool to room temperature.

While you wait for the chocolate to cool, position a shelf in the middle of the oven and turn the oven on to 150C(300F). Grease the mini muffin pan with butter and dust with flour. Now tip the protein powder and cocoa powder into a sieve held over a medium bowl, and tap and shake the sieve so they run through together and you get rid of any lumps.

With a large sharp knife chop the remaining chocolate into chunks on a board. The slabs of chocolate will be quite hard, so the safest way to do this is to hold the knife over the chocolate and press the tip down on the board, then bring the rest of the blade down across the chocolate to chop it into pieces, then turn the board 90 degrees and again work across the chocolate so you end up with rough tiny squares.

Break the eggs into a large bowl and tip in the splenda. with an electric mixer on maximum speed, whisk the eggs and splenda until the look thick and creamy, like a milk shake. this can take 3 to 8 minutes, depending on how powerful your mixer is, so don’t lose heart. you’ll know it’s ready when the mixture becomes really pale and about double its original volume. Another check is to turn off the mixer, lift out the beaters and wiggle them from side to side. If the mixture that runs off the beaters leaves a trail on the surface of the mixture in the bowl for a second or two, you’re there.

Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the eggy mouse, then gently fold together with a rubber spatula.

Hold the sieve over the bowl of eggy chocolate mixture and resift the cocoa, protein powder and flour, shaking the sieve from side to side, to cover the top evenly. Gently fold inn this powder. Don’t overdo it. Finally stir in the chocolate chunks.

Pour the mixture into the tins scraping every bit out of the bowl with the spatula.

Place in oven for 8 minutes.

OK so you want some other kind of food eh?
Try these Salmon/Mackeral cakes with Chimichurri sauce.
Chef X - Mackeral/Salmon Cakes
Amount Measure Ingredient – Preparation Method


2 2/3 grams oyster crackers
3 1/2 grams sweet corn – frozen
1/16 small onion – coarsely chopped
1/4 tablespoon butter (olive oil butter) – melted
1/8 tablespoon peas, frozen
1/3 whole egg whites
275 7/8 grams mackerel, canned or salmon
1/16 tablespoon olive oil spray
1/16 fluid ounce lemon juice

Cakes - Crush crackers in a medium bowl, add corn, onion, butter, peas and egg whites, stir throughly. Turn in mackeral or salmon and fluff together carfeull not to breack down mackeral or salmon too much. Spoon into muffin tin greased with the oilve oil (spary) and sprinkle lemon juice over top.

Bake in a medium hot oven for around 10 minutes till firm.

The Sauce
Chef X - Chimichurri Sauce

Amount Measure Ingredient – Preparation Method


1/2 cup parsley – chopped
2 3/4 large garlic cloves
1 1/4 medium jalapeno chile peppers – seeded
5 tablespoons olive oil
1 3/8 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon OLd Bay Seafood seasoning

In a mini-food processor, combine parsley, garlic and 1/2 of the jalape?os; process until a chunky paste forms. (Carfeull not to touch eyes due to peppers!)
Stir into oil, vinegar, salt and seasoning.

Ooops forgot the Brownie nutrition facts for ya

They are… low carb, high protein, moderate fat.

It depends on what:
Chocolate you use, the type of whey protein, the eggs… the well you get the idea.
I always use 70% dark chocolate from the netherlands, dark cocoa powder unsweetened as well dutch, unsalted olive oil butter, splenda (no calories)
Mine were about… Per 105 Calorie serving (1/10th); 5g Fat; 14g Protein; 1g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 18mg Cholesterol; 4mg Sodium.

more?

Beef jerky

chefx, got any good ideas for Protein+Fat meals that incorporate some veggies that I could pack to take to class?

Or any protein+carb meals that dont involve rice/yams/oats.

Here’s my low carb snacks: string cheese, almonds, pecans, cashews, jerky.

Chefx, hell yeah! bring it!

[quote]blam wrote:
chefx, got any good ideas for Protein+Fat meals that incorporate some veggies that I could pack to take to class?

Or any protein+carb meals that dont involve rice/yams/oats.[/quote]

A great summer cold soup is yogurt and cucumber soup. Use whole fat yogurt and low carb vanilla grow for the protein/fat. Cucumbers, vadalia onions and mint for the fiber carbs maybe some other spices like a touch of tabasco or Indian chiles. Put it in the blender and walah instant cold soup thats high protein and taste awesome.

Or try cold roast beef, bake it in the oven dry. Smother it in spicy mustard, Roll it around some pickles, chill it and chomp on those low carb delights.

I’ll get some other recipes up at a later time. I’m also putting out a cool 36 recipe book soon that has menus, grocerey lists and ways to modify it to fit the different rage diets if need be. Simple and it all tastes good.
oh yeah it has a bunch of low carb, high protein desserts/snacks in it too like vodka chili orange cake and others.