Diet Books: Clean Eating Recipes and Crockpot Ideas

By Paula Odowd

Diet Books: Clean Eating Recipes and Crockpot Ideas The Diet Book features two of the best diets, which offer easy healthy recipes, the Clean Eating diet, and the Crockpot Recipes, which offers simple healthy recipes. The best diet food for you is always one that gives you a wide selection of healthy food recipes using good diet foods, which are using whole vegetables, fruits, and lean meats with whole grains. When you add these healthy diet foods into your menu plan, your body becomes healthier. Make it a lifestyle change by consuming the good diet foods daily. The first section of the Diet Book covers the Clean Eating Diet with these chapters: The Clean Diet, Benefits of Clean Eating, Alternative Food Types, Tips for Eating Clean and Healthy, 5 Day Sample Planner for Day to Day Meals, Breakfast Recipes, Quick and Easy Lunches, Main Meal Recipes, Side Dishes, Desserts, Snacks, and Beverages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781630227197

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Diet Books

Clean Eating Recipes and Crockpot Ideas

Paula Odowd and Dusti Dagenhart

Copyright © 2013 Paula Odowd and Dusti Dagenhart

All rights reserved.

Introduction

Clean Eating

Chapter 1:  The Clean Diet

Chapter 2:  Benefits of Clean Eating

Chapter 3:  Alternative Food Types

Natural Home Made Mayonnaise

Chapter 4:  Tips for Eating Clean and Healthy

Chapter 5:  5-Day Sample Planner for Day to Day Meals

Chapter 6:  Breakfast Recipes

Breakfast Fiesta

Rise and Shine Banana Bread

Sweet and Zesty Pancake Apple Rings

Healthy Granola Breakfast Cereal

Springtime Baked Omelet

Chapter 7:  Quick and Easy Lunches

Reuben Supreme Sandwich

Creamy Albacore Pita

Touch of Italy Cheese Quesadillas

Greens and Berries Super Salad

Marinated Salmon with Cucumber Salsa

Chapter 8:  Main Meal Recipes

Beef Asparagus Stir-Fry

Home Made Beef Tacos with Salsa

Crispy Fish Fillets with Lemon Dip

Thick and Chunky Oven Chili

Savory Scallops with Zesty Spinach

No Problem Grilled Jerk Chicken

Chapter 9:  Side Dishes

Cauliflower Fanfare

Quinoa Corn Salad

Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Sassy Apricots and Sweet Potatoes

Spring Pea-Cheddar Salad

Green Bean Casserole Supreme

Chapter 10:  Desserts

Original Angel Food Cake

Raspberry-Peach Crumble

Classy Carrot Cake

Lemon Bundt Cake with Poppy Seeds

Peanut Butter Cookies-Hold the Flour

Perfect Strawberry Parfait

Chapter 11:  Snacks

Caribbean Fruitsicles

Snackin' Cranberry Granola

Vanilla Lovers Granola

Bugs on a Log

Apple-Cinnamon Chips

Fruit-Nutty Trail Mix

Chapter 12:  Beverages

Green Tea/Mango Surprise

Homemade Honey Lemonade

Peachy Spritzer

Famous Fruity Smoothie

Chocolate Covered Banana Milkshake

Honeydew Delight

Caribbean Cooler

Clean Eating Conclusion

Section 2: Crockpot Recipes

Chapter 1: Benefits of Crockpot Cooking

Chapter 2: Tips and Information for Slow Cooking

Chapter 3: Making Bread

How to Make Sourdough Starter

How to Make Crockpot Sourdough Bread

Classic Monkey Bread-Crockpot Style

Chapter 4: Quick and Easy Breakfast Recipes

Cinnamon Laced Oatmeal

Oscar Benedict Casserole

Yummy French Toast

Lemon-Drizzled Blueberry Pancakes

Crock Pot Creamy Grits

Sweet Grain Morning Cereal

Chapter 5: Make Ahead Lunch Time Meals

Fruity Greek Yogurt

Chicken Mango with Tortilla Chips

Slow Cooked Asian Noodle Bowl

BBQ Beef on Bun

Slow-Cooker Spinach and Ricotta Lasagna

Home Made Chicken Nuggets

Crockpot Roast Beef Grinders

Chapter 6: Delightful Dinner Specialties

Jamaican Jerk Chicken

Mock Swiss Steak

Slow-Cooker Sesame Chicken

Nihari (Pakistani Beef Curry)

Korean Beef Stew with Cabbage

Saucy Slow Cooker Meatballs

Chapter 7: Favorite Slow Cooking Recipes for Crowds

Crock Pot Chicken Fajitas

Gourmet Macaroni and Cheese

Crowd Pleasing BBQ Beef Ribs

Garden Fresh Chunky Pasta Sauce

Tangy Honey Chicken Wings

Zesty Crock Pot Chili

Chapter 8: Awesome Soups

Flavorful Chicken Noodle Soup

French Potato Leek Soup

Classic Oxtail Soup

Creamy Broccoli Cheese Soup

Crock Pot Tomato Soup

Chapter 9: Delicious Desserts

Sweet Potato Pudding Cake

Apple Filled Coffee Cake

Crock Pot Pumpkin Pie Treat

Donut Custard Delight

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Sweet Caramel Rice Pudding

Cherry-Apple Cobbler

Chapter 10: Snacks, Drinks and More

Warm Cinnamon Almonds

Spicy Pecans

Beefy Taco Dip

Spicy Apricot Juice

Hot Chocolate Surprise

Chocolate Fondue

Rice Crispy Bars

Chapter 11: 5-Day Meal Planner

Conclusion to Crock Pot Cooking

Introduction

These two diets the Clean Diet and the Crockpot recipes are a great way to make a change of lifestyle for healthier eating.  Each diet features healthy food in the ingredients of the recipes.  You have enough recipes here to plan a menu for weeks in advance without repeating a meal.  Below are some tips to help make the dieting lifestyle change a success.

Keep a Food Journal

If you can keep a food journal, especially if you can do this before you start the new diets; you can take a good look at your current eating habits.  If you have health issues such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, or are overweight, you may be able to understand why when you take a look at your eating habits.  The goal of the clean eating diet is to clean the body out of the junk foods you were eating and make a turn for eating healthier foods. 

Wean From the Junk Food First

Junk food addiction is real and is a major bad habit for many people.  If you jump into a new diet without weaning first you may have some great struggles in staying on the new diet plan.  The whole idea of the clean eating diet is to rid the body of any junk food.  Junk food contains high levels of additives including preservatives, dyes, artificial flavors, saturated fats, processed sugars, and flour.  These foods have no nutritional value, but are highly addictive.  If you stop eating it, you may experience withdrawal side effects such as being jittery, having a headache, crankiness, and extreme cravings.  When this occurs, it makes it easy to just cheat and go back to eating the junk to stop the side effects.  The best way to get around this is to wean from junk food slowly.

Breaking any habit takes about three weeks to make it a success.  You will want to wean slowly over that time.  Since you have your food journal ready, you can see how many times a day you consume junk food.  Take one junk food at a time and take three to five days to wean, replace it with a food from the clean eating diet.  Repeat the process every three to five days until you are completely off the junk food.

Do What You Can To Make It Easy

Since the appeal of junk food is the convenience of it, you should set out to prepare as much of your weekly meals ahead of time as you can.  Make your grocery list and go shopping.  When you get home, take the time to wash the fruits and vegetables.  Chop the ones you can.  Some will not do well if you chop ahead of time, but some will do just fine if you store it in the refrigerator.  The Crockpot Recipes section makes it super easy to prepare a meal while you are sleeping or during the day.  Be smart about it and prepare a little extra for a leftover lunch the next day.  Some of the recipes may be good to prepare, freeze, and then cook.

Drink Plenty of Water

Water is vital to your health and goes right along with eating the right foods.  You should drink water daily whether you are on a particular diet or not.  Water helps to clean the inside of our body, it helps our blood to flow better, it helps to clean the digestive system, and it keeps the kidneys flushed.  If you do not get enough water, you can become dehydrated.  Signs of dehydration are headaches, mood swings, dry mouth, dry skin, and an incredible thirst.  Some believe that if you feel thirst then you are slightly dehydrated anyway.  Ideally, you want to consume enough water each day that your body never feels thirsty. 

Water consumption should be according to body weight.  The standard eight cups of water a day holds true for a person weighing one hundred twenty-eight pounds.  To calculate the amount of water you need per day take your weight in pounds and divide that by two and then you have the number in ounces you need.