If you love comfort food, Tex-Mex, and Southern cuisine, you’re in the right place. You’ll also find a beaucoup of recipes geared towards the fitness lover. You know, high protein desserts, low carb treats, or low calorie meals for flexible dieting.
Talk is cheap. Here are some of my most popular healthy recipes on my blog:
There’s no way you could make your own pizza dough and have a cheesy pepperoni pizza with just 5 grams of fat per slice in under 30 minutes, right? Wrong. With this simple air fryer pizza recipe, you can now replace the frozen and delivery…
These buffalo tuna cakes transform packaged or canned tuna into cheesy, crispy cakes with 17 grams of protein, 11 grams of carbs, and 170 calories each. They come together in about 20 minutes and reheat great for a meal prep snack. It’s a super easy…
This 20-minute recipe pairs ground chicken with spices, hot chili paste, honey, and coconut milk to make a protein option that’s loaded with flavor. With 27 grams of protein and just 230 calories per serving, this chicken is perfect for meal prep. And as an…
My spin on BJ’s Monkey Bread Pizookie pairs low fat cinnamon sugar biscuit pieces with a lightened up mixture of caramelized brown sugar, butter, and walnuts to make two layers of decadent pull apart bread. And in place of the vanilla ice cream on top,…
These quesadillas are an amazing way to transform ingredients from your pantry into a crowd pleasing appetizer or meal prep snack. While they’re not the highest protein recipe on my blog, they have a whopping 13 grams of fiber per quesadilla to keep you full.…
If you love spicy foods, you’re gonna love these air fryer chicken nuggets. They use my spin on a Nashville Hot Chicken spice blend and a tiny bit of olive oil to make little juicy and tender flavor bombs. And since the entire recipe has…
This recipe combines protein powder with almond and oat flour to make cinnamon coffee cake muffins that you’ll never know are gluten free. They’re topped with a walnut oat streusel and sugar free glaze. And each muffin has 8 grams of protein with just 120…
Having a picky eater living under my roof, I’m far too familiar with the frustrations of multiple meals occurring all at once. Luckily, I’m only dealing with one, and she is improving! That said, I thought a roundup of my most popular kid friendly, picky…
In case you’re unfamiliar, Banza makes pasta from 90% chickpeas. It comes in all shapes and sizes and works great as a healthier substitute for traditional wheat pasta. Here’s a handful of reasons their pasta has become a go-to ingredient in my recipes: lower carb,…
These garlic parmesan pasta fries are crunchy, flavorful, and super easy to make. And since they’re made with chickpea pasta, every serving has 9 grams of protein with just 16 grams of carbs! I’ll walk you through the recipe below and cover ingredient notes as…
