healthy

You are currently browsing articles tagged healthy.

Treat Yourself to Lunch at Fresh City – Giveaway

February 4, 2013 in Food by traveleatlove | 2 comments

Thanks again to Fresh City for bringing me a delicious, healthy lunch and sponsoring this giveaway! The winner of the gift card is Emily!

Work day lunches are one of those things that are always on my mind. I try my best to make enough dinner so we can have leftovers for lunch. When I have time on a Sunday, I try to make a big one pot meal for us to pack for the week, but otherwise I’m always at a loss for what we should bring for lunch.

When a representative from Fresh City sent me an email asking if they could bring me lunch, I was incredibly excited. Fresh City wraps are our go-ton on drives to NJ. While I hate the long trip, I always look forward to a buffalo chicken or Greek salad wrap to keep hunger at bay.

Fresh City is promoting some healthy new menu items, and to my delight, when my lunch delivery arrived on Friday, I received them all!

  • Powerhouse Salad – this salad packs a punch and includes everything but the kitchen sink: edamame, cranberries, grapes, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, almonds, and cheddar cheese. The low fat, low calorie Power dressing gives the salad a great taste with a power boost of energy.
  • Napa Valley Turkey Sandwich – who doesn’t love turkey, avocado, and bacon together? Fresh City adds a unique twist to this classic sandwich by adding a lemon chive aioli dressing.
  • Pomegranate Acai Smoothie – cool off after a tough workout with a freshly blend of pomegranate, acai, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries.

image

pomegranate acai smoothie

I love eating meal salads, but I’m often left hungry after. The Powerhouse Salad was so full of different, healthy, and filling toppings, that I only made it through about 3/4 of the salad before I was full. I loved all of the textures and flavors and being able to fit so many healthy nutrients into the middle of my day. I would most definitely get this salad again and was pretty much craving it all weekend.

For my dessert, I sipped on the Pomegranate Acai Smoothie throughout the afternoon. It had only a hint of sweetness and a whole lot of berry flavor. I love that a smoothie like this really packs a nutritional punch while tasting as good as a milkshake or other dessert. I paired the smoothie with some cinnamon sugar pita crisps that Fresh City sent along. Delicious.

I was completely full after my salad, smoothie, and snack, so I brought the Napa Valley Turkey Sandwich home to share with my husband. We didn’t have dinner plans, and since our brains were mush by Friday evening, we split the sandwich for dinner, and we were both completely full with just the half. The sandwich was very large and stuffed with fresh turkey, bacon, and avocado. I loved the light, lemony dressing; it was the perfect choice to cut the richness of all of the other ingredients and to add a tang to the sandwich.

I would definitely order all of the items from Fresh City again, and I hope that they build more locations around Boston. Their food is definitely one of my favorite healthy and quick options, and there’s so much of the menu I want to try.

Fresh City wants one of you to be able to have lunch on them too! They’re giving me a $15 gift card for one lucky reader. In the dead of winter, a little lunch treat goes a very long way.

To enter, like Fresh City on Facebook, and leave a comment below letting me know your favorite Fresh City item or one you’d like to try.

I will choose a winner on Thursday evening. Have a great week!

Tags: Food, giveaway, healthy

Vibrant Vegetable Soup

January 25, 2013 in recipe by traveleatlove | 6 comments

When last week’s plan of healthy eating turned into dining out, events, and takeout every night, we were left with a fridge full of produce that we needed to eat in a short space of time. Smoothies and chips took care of the kale overload, but we had a bunch of other healthy ingredients to use up. With temps falling, soup seemed like the perfect idea, and in just a short amount of time, a vibrant veggie soup came together.

broccoli

The ingredients:

4 cups broccoli florets, roasted at 400 for 20 minutes

3 cups baby spinach

2 cups sweet peppers, roasted at 400 for 20 minutes

1 cup white onion, chopped and sautéed in olive oil until soft

4 large potatoes, boiled until soft

Coconut milk – enough to make it into a soupy consistency

handful fresh cilantro

pepper

spinach

So Delicious Coconut Milk

Once the veggies were roasted and the potatoes were cooked through, I added it all to my Ninja blender with some curry powder, garlic, cumin, and chili powder and pureed until nice and smooth.

potatoes and spices

I returned it all to the pot and simmered it on low until we were ready to eat.

creamy vegetable soup

We each had a big bowl topped with Greek yogurt to add some protein and creaminess to it. For being just a bunch of vegetables and a few other ingredients blended together, we both thought the soup tasted like something you’d find at a nice restaurant. It was a great green color, packed full of nutrients to keep us from getting sick, and an easy way to avoid wasting food, something I absolutely hate doing. I’m trying to be more careful with grocery shopping, only getting enough for what we need and also trying to stay home more. It’s not been too hard in this frigid weather!

It’s time to meal plan for yet another week; what do you have on your menu for next week?

Tags: broccoli, coconut milk, Food, healthy, peppers, potatoes, recipe, soup, spices, spinach, vegan, vegetables, Vegetarian

Simple

January 5, 2013 in Food by traveleatlove | 3 comments

Happy New Year! 2013 is brand new, and a fresh start is definitely something I think we all need. 2012 was a great year; we both had meaningful work and new jobs, got to travel quite a bit, and enjoyed good health ourselves. Still, the year had a pall over it. I had a couple of beloved family members with health scares, and well, we all know the suffering that took place when Sandy hit our shores in October. Watching my home state take a pounding was nowhere near as difficult as actually living the destruction, but it was still hard and incredibly sad to see places I loved destroyed. The devastating tragedy in Newtown broke all of our hearts, and I think we’re all still hurting. It’s just not something you recover from quickly.

A fresh start was welcome when the clock struck 12 on December 31st, and simplicity is one of my goals for 2013. With the fiscal cliff looming, blame being thrown around on social media channels, and a tinge of hopelessness in the air, I feel like making time for simple meals, time with loved ones, volunteering, and random acts of kindness, truly going back to one another is the way out.

kale and white bean pasta

Our first work day dinner of the New Year was a simple one that my aunt reminded me of when we were in New Jersey, pasta with kale, white beans, garlic, and parmesan. A few great ingredients and a little bit of time yielded a quick, simple meal.

One of those ingredients was olive oil from Frances Mayes’ Bramasole (Under the Tuscan Sun) generously sent to me by Frances and her husband Edward. I received a tin of oil and a bottle of oil, the tin containing new olive oil from this year’s harvest. We consumed most of it simply on bread (and some by the spoon), and it was fruity, fresh, and spicy. It was a special addition to this pasta dish, and a heartwarming gift during these cold months. You can order oil from Bramasole or join their olive oil convivium by visiting their website.

Bramasole Olive Oil

kale and white bean pasta

As for the pasta dish, I just eyeballed it, using tiny pasta shells, white pasta enriched with fiber, along with four cloves of garlic, a can of cannelini beans, and a few handfuls of kale. I topped it all off with Bramasole olive oil, a handful of Parmigiano Reggiano, and crushed red pepper flakes.

Simply perfect.

What are your goals for 2013?

Tags: easy dinners, Food, healthy, recipe, Vegetarian

« Older entries § Newer entries »

new restaurant
WordPress SEO fine-tune by Meta SEO Pack from Poradnik Webmastera