Simple Healthy Swaps

So a lot of you have been asking me about healthy meals, snacks and some tips for buying healthy foods. So here a a few healthy swaps you can make in your diets that will increase your meals nutritional values and make you a little healthier.

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Scrambled egg, chicken and toast

A great, high protein lunch with plenty of nutritional benefits. The eggs are a great source of protein and polyunsaturated fats that are essential for growth and repair of muscle tissue, and the eggs are also extremely low in carbohydrates. The chicken is also packed full of protein and B vitamins including B12 which releases energy from food and helps keep you energised even on a low carb diet. The peppers provide simple carbs and essential nutrients including vitamins C and D in small doses to help with cell recovery and muscle growth.

This is a great meal to have on any diet and will encourage muscle, strength and recovery gains in no time.

Ingredients:

• 4 medium eggs
• 100g chicken
• 40g sliced peppers
• (optional) 1 round of whole meal toast - 50g

Nutritional info:

With toast = Protein (47g) Carbohydrates (24g)
Without toast = Protein (42g) Carbohydrates (6g)

It is quick and easy to make, only takes about 5-6 minutes at most to prepare and cook in the microwave and then its all yours. Enjoy.

The real 'super' noodles

I know alot of people who eat noodles for lunch, but alot of the noodles we can buy in the supermarket are full of salt and almost nutritionally useless. So I've got a  new lunch recipe that will help improve your noodles and help you towards your training needs.

Ingredients:

1 packet of chicken super noodles

half a pint of boiling water

100 grams of chicken

some roasted peppers

These noodles are packed with 25 grams of protein and yet are only 450 calories.

The chicken will provide you with a great source of lean protein and is one of the lowest calorie meats around. It is also packed with witamins B6 and B12 which help you get energy out of food and of course help with muscle building.

The roasted peppers come in a jar and are preserved in sunflower seed oil, this is good for two reasons. Firstly it removes the need for the company ot add salt and so you are reducing yuor overall salt intake, and second because it contains monounsaturated fats which help to boost our metabolism and so leads to our bodies burning more calories. They also contain many vital vitamins and count as 1 of our 5 a day so its s great thing to add to the dish.

The noodles themselves contain low GI carbs suprisingly and have the lowest saturated fat content of all pre-prepared noodles. They are also quick and easy to make so it saves you time for other things in your day.