A Man, A Can, A Plan, A Second Helping: 50 Fast Meals to Satisfy Your Healthy Appetite: A Cookbook

By David Joachim and Editors of Men's Health Magazi

50 all-new easy recipes for great, guy-friendly food from the authors of A Man, A Can, A Plan
 
When award-winning cookbook author and editor David Joachim introduced the A Man, a Can series in 2002 with A Man, a Can, a Plan, readers and reviewers alike were quick to embrace the winning premise: quick, tasty, healthful meals based on canned and other convenience foods. “This cookbook makes meals guys would love,” raved the Philadelphia Daily News. “A foolproof, not to mention spill-proof, guide to manly success in the kitchen,” exclaimed the Sunday Star-Ledger.

Now David Joachim is back with 50 new tempting recipes for hungry guys everywhere—hearty, healthy fare such as Chili Empanadas, Noodlicious Ramen Salad, Cheez-It Crusted Chicken, Pesto Salmon Pitas, and more. With step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs, even the most culinarily challenged dudes can whip up dishes that will have diners eager for more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Release date: May 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781609617042

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Contents

Beef

Chicken

Pork

Fish

Noodles

Beans

Veggies

Fruit

Man, You Can Make It Easy

Men love convenience. Direct deposit. Overnight delivery. Remote controls. They all make life easier. Just like the modern convenience store. Walk into any mini-mart, and you’ll find the basic staples of life: food, clothing, and shelter (if it rains). But back to the food. Have you looked around your local gasmart lately? The food aisles have grown faster than our national debt. It’s a regular grocery store in there. Convenience store owners aren’t dumb. They know you need to eat on the fly. But what else can you do with a can of Red Bull other than chug it? Use it as a marinade for unbelievably good Red Bull Steak, that’s what. Can sour cream and onion dip be destined for anything more interesting than a bag of chips? Absolutely. Mix it with mushrooms and chicken to make a meal of Chicken Stroganoff. Or stir some smoked oysters into it to make Hot Smoked Oyster Dip.

This book shows you how to make 50 tasty meals that start with ingredients you can find in any convenience store, like canned tuna, canned cheese dip, and canned soda. The can is the key. The can is your ticket to freedom from cold pizza and drive-thru burgers. Whether you’re in college, in your first apartment, in the armed forces, in a family of four, or in a retirement community, you can use basic ingredients that are probably sitting in your kitchen cabinets right now to whip up a fast, healthy meal. That’s right, healthy. Canned fish is good for your heart. Canned beans are high in health-boosting fiber. And canned tomatoes may help prevent cancer. You can even use the nutrient evaluations provided with each recipe to help limit your fat intake to 30 percent of the total calories in your overall diet and to monitor your salt intake if dietary sodium is a concern.

So the next time you’re gassing up your car, take a quick swing through the mini-mart. Your next great meal may be just one aisle away.

A Happy Medium for Sodium

While canned food is convenient, it can be a source of unnecessary sodium. Look for the words no salt added on can labels. But if you can’t find a low-sodium product, just try to keep your total daily sodium intake close to the recommended daily limit of 2,400 milligrams. While some research has shown that restricting dietary sodium to 1,500 milligrams can lower blood pressure in people with hypertension, one recent study following 7,154 people for more than a decade found that eating less than that amount was associated with a 37 percent higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. So track your sodium intake using the nutrient evaluations in this book and the Nutrition Facts labels on other foods you eat. And take it easy with the salt shaker—1 teaspoon of table salt provides about 2,000 milligrams of sodium.

Beef

Red Bull® Steak

Also: 3 Tbsp salt-free steak seasoning

HOW TO MAKE IT: In a big ziplock bag, mix the Red Bull and 1 Tbsp of the steak seasoning. Drop in the