El Jason
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It’s orgain that does it.
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Hunting Wife
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I’ve made a lot of good stuff from Eating Well. They do have some great recipes. I do often sub out or reduce butter or half and half in the recipes though.Great thread idea.
My wife and I make a lot of meals that we find here. —> Eating Well
Lots of recipes don’t include meat, but we just add whatever would work. Lots of one pot, one pan, skillet type meals that work for our schedule.
A few that we like:
Cheesy One-Pot Chicken-Broccoli Orzo
This cheesy chicken-broccoli orzo is the ultimate weeknight game-changer. This dish brings crowd-pleasing flavors together in one pan for easy cleanup.www.eatingwell.com
High-Protein Enchilada Skillet Is Ready in 30 Minutes
This black bean and tofu enchilada skillet is a one-pan meal packed with plant-based protein. Crumbled tofu soaks up the sauce while corn tortillas soften into it for a rich, satisfying filling.
High-Protein Balsamic Chicken Orzo
This High-Protein Balsamic Chicken Orzo is a creamy, flavor-packed one-skillet meal that balances protein with tender veggies and pasta.
Marry Me White Bean & Spinach Skillet
This Marry Me White Bean & Spinach Skillet is a different take on Marry Me Chicken — a dish traditionally made with chicken coated in a sun-dried tomato cream sauce.
Potsie
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That was probably more about the type of protein you used, instead of just protein powder. Protein powders with lots of casein tore me up. Now I use a hydrolyzed protein made mostly from whey… no more peeling paint with my gas.
rtraverdavis
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This is a winter staple in my house. Even the kids love it:
Butthorn Soup
1 large onion - diced
Four cloves garlic - minced
1 lb of elk (or whatever) Italian sausage
1 lb of chopped kale
2 cans Italian diced tomatoes
2 cans Northern White Beans
2 cans of chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste
Throw some avocado or olive oil in a Dutch oven and heat it on the stove. Add the onions and cook until they start to brown up. Stir in the garlic and cook for a minute or so. Create an open spot in the bottom of the pot for the sausage, brown the sausage with the onions and garlic. Add salt and pepper. Add the kale and put the lid on for a minute or so for the kale to cook down a bit to make room for the rest of the ingredients. Add the tomatoes, beans, and chicken broth and let simmer for at least an hour. @Potsie gives me shit about liking kale, but this soup is legit.
Butthorn Soup
1 large onion - diced
Four cloves garlic - minced
1 lb of elk (or whatever) Italian sausage
1 lb of chopped kale
2 cans Italian diced tomatoes
2 cans Northern White Beans
2 cans of chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste
Throw some avocado or olive oil in a Dutch oven and heat it on the stove. Add the onions and cook until they start to brown up. Stir in the garlic and cook for a minute or so. Create an open spot in the bottom of the pot for the sausage, brown the sausage with the onions and garlic. Add salt and pepper. Add the kale and put the lid on for a minute or so for the kale to cook down a bit to make room for the rest of the ingredients. Add the tomatoes, beans, and chicken broth and let simmer for at least an hour. @Potsie gives me shit about liking kale, but this soup is legit.
Irrelevant
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Uncooked rolled oats and unsweetened applesauce, mix, wait 2 hrs. Enjoy
My mom taught me that soup but add tomato paste and use chorizo instead of sausage. I always knew it as Portuguese Kale soup. What the hell is butthorn?
rtraverdavis
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Try the soup and you shall know the butthorn.
I approach this a little different. I think healthy recipes are great for a big Sunday night dinner but it has to be simple to sustain healthy eating throughout the year. We have staples that are quick and easy to make in 30 minutes or less. Prioritize protein. No strange ingredients (you’re welcome @Dave N )
Protein
- Lean steaks like strips & flat iron.
- browned burger
- eggs
- chicken thighs
- Greek yogurt
Carbs
White rice cooked in broth
Sweet potatoes
White potatoes
Avoid bread
Fats
It’s so easy to over consume fat that I just try to minimize it. I’m pretty lean and still struggle not to overeat fats.
Sweets
Use fruit to satisfy cravings. 1 apple is 90 calories and a small cookie is like 250…
Protein
- Lean steaks like strips & flat iron.
- browned burger
- eggs
- chicken thighs
- Greek yogurt
Carbs
White rice cooked in broth
Sweet potatoes
White potatoes
Avoid bread
Fats
It’s so easy to over consume fat that I just try to minimize it. I’m pretty lean and still struggle not to overeat fats.
Sweets
Use fruit to satisfy cravings. 1 apple is 90 calories and a small cookie is like 250…
to get my fiber and all the good plant chemicals, vitamin c, and a host of various other nutrients they say you need i do a smoothie nearly every day. i definitely dial this calorie bomb back if i'm not doing my mid morning cardio
mixture of organic blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries
half a banana
one organic mandarin orange (sometimes)
big fistful of spinach
couple big spoonful's of organic peanut butter (the type where the only ingredients are peanuts and salt)
fill it up with whole milk organic grassfed plain kefir and a splash of organic grassfed whole milk to water it down a little (i'm a little different in that i make zero effort to reduce fats in my diet)
mixture of organic blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries
half a banana
one organic mandarin orange (sometimes)
big fistful of spinach
couple big spoonful's of organic peanut butter (the type where the only ingredients are peanuts and salt)
fill it up with whole milk organic grassfed plain kefir and a splash of organic grassfed whole milk to water it down a little (i'm a little different in that i make zero effort to reduce fats in my diet)
Lot's of protein and fats, BACON! LOL
Fresh fruit almost daily. Apple & string cheese is usual lunch.
Cold meat. Cheese,good cheese.
Berries.
Greens.
Greek yogurt.
Meat from field or WY ranch. I did get a whole rib eye side and steaked it the other day.
Made elk stew Sat., simple. Elk, onions, carrots, celery, taters. 2 beef broth...rich. Basic spices.
Grilled the 3 steaks I cut off roast before stew and had fire pit grilled with wilted greens/w/bacon and a baked tater. Sun.
Cold steak, cheese for dinner last night.
Oncologist is thumbs up on whatever I have been doing.
Fresh fruit almost daily. Apple & string cheese is usual lunch.
Cold meat. Cheese,good cheese.
Berries.
Greens.
Greek yogurt.
Meat from field or WY ranch. I did get a whole rib eye side and steaked it the other day.
Made elk stew Sat., simple. Elk, onions, carrots, celery, taters. 2 beef broth...rich. Basic spices.
Grilled the 3 steaks I cut off roast before stew and had fire pit grilled with wilted greens/w/bacon and a baked tater. Sun.
Cold steak, cheese for dinner last night.
Oncologist is thumbs up on whatever I have been doing.
Wildabeest
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Mostly healthy. My version of Nobu’s Miso Black Cod. Didn’t have black cod, so I used Chilean sea bass instead.
With some long grain and wild rice and spicy Asian cucumber salad.
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With some long grain and wild rice and spicy Asian cucumber salad.
Spicy Asian Cucumber Salad
Spicy Asian cucumber salad recipe - you've gotta try this! Smashing is essential. The perfect combination of refreshing and firecracker heat!
www.recipetineats.com
huntin24/7
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Great thread idea! I work out regularly but could certainly be better and more consistent in my diet. One of my new favorite healthy ways to eat game is making kabobs with all of our t loin and backstraps. I’ve found that it all turns out more tender as a kabob compared to a larger chunk when cooked to the same internal temp.
At the age of 56, I’d like to offer this:
“Healthy”…at best…is Subjective.
Some people can eat carbs…sugar isn’t a problem. My wife…has a wonderful A1c and loves breads, pasta, carbs…potatoes!
If I even look at a potato, my blood sugar spikes. I can see how any sugar affects me - it’s darn near instant. Crazy. My blood sugar was high in my 20’s…turns out, my family runs high genetic blood sugar and at least once has died from diabetes and another from “complications”.
On the other hand, my Cholesterol is 152.
So, yeah. Bring on the Red Meat!
I subsist on meat and veggies and damn near zero carbs. Carbs, at least according to blood sugar, is my kryptonite.
And yet, my wife keeps a bag of Godiva Chocolates…and doesn’t suffer for it.
Healthy is truly subjective…
“Healthy”…at best…is Subjective.
Some people can eat carbs…sugar isn’t a problem. My wife…has a wonderful A1c and loves breads, pasta, carbs…potatoes!
If I even look at a potato, my blood sugar spikes. I can see how any sugar affects me - it’s darn near instant. Crazy. My blood sugar was high in my 20’s…turns out, my family runs high genetic blood sugar and at least once has died from diabetes and another from “complications”.
On the other hand, my Cholesterol is 152.
So, yeah. Bring on the Red Meat!
I subsist on meat and veggies and damn near zero carbs. Carbs, at least according to blood sugar, is my kryptonite.
And yet, my wife keeps a bag of Godiva Chocolates…and doesn’t suffer for it.
Healthy is truly subjective…
Hunting Wife
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If you like kebabs and haven’t tried Hank Shaw’s Souvlaki recipe, you should. One of my favorites. So good with the homemade tzatziki. I usually skip the bread and just have it plain with some kind of veggie or salad.
Or check out his Anticuchos recipe- he uses heart but I make that red pepper/chile sauce and put it on all kinds of kebab-style meats.
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I wouldn’t say subjective as much as not everyone’s motor runs the same. You wouldn’t put diesel in a prius
WildWill
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My cousin owns a wrecker service. You'd be surprised how many people will put diesel in a prius and all sorts of other vehicles it doesn't go in.
David58
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This Idaho life has had us eating a bit more carryout (pizza) than we used to (in six months, since its real pizza, more than our 10 years in NM). Getting back to protein along with fresh fruit and such for good carbs. Have got to where plain Greek yogurt is breakfast, also works in place of sour cream on tacos. Got the freezer moved to where it belongs, so now going to fill it, starting with some good beef (and hopefully deer and elk come hunting season). Hope to supplement with fish, thinking I need to go hunt some pike this coming weekend if it hasn't snowed too much.
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I’ve tried to do what I can to eat healthy. From everything I’ve been able to read about nutrition, appetite, and physiology, there are essentially 3 things I try to avoid, one I try to limit.
1- added sugar. It increases appetite to make you want more calories, spikes blood glucose to give you energy spikes and crashes, and is the primary culprit in Type II diabetes (fruit is ok, as the fiber slows down the glucose uptake into the bloodstream). Plus if you are limiting calories, it reduces the other nutrition you would get (vitamins/minerals) because it literally has nothing else in it. If you want you cut weight, cut out added sugar. Even in bread. Soda is an easy one to point out. Low-fat foods (like yogurt) are the sneaky ones that add sugar to make it palatable. Just avoid it.
2- preservatives. You have more bacteria cells in your gut than there are cells of you. Your intestines are a fermentation vessel, a bioreactor, a pre-digester. Those bacteria help you tolerate foods and extract more nutrition than you can on your own. Preservatives kill those bacteria, and lead to you feeling worse and being less healthy overall.
3- nitrates. These have been implicated in increased risk of heart disease, and the studies claiming red meat were the cause only used nitrate-heavy meats and drew the wrong conclusion from the results. Some newer studies are showing that vitamin C can “passivate”the nitrates and negate that effect, though. So ham might return as a major food group.
Limit- alcohol. It’s not great for you, but I still enjoy the occasional beer and whiskey or wine.
Past that, just eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables. No, potatoes are not a vegetable. Green and leafy is what you’re preferably looking for- lettuce, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, etc.
1- added sugar. It increases appetite to make you want more calories, spikes blood glucose to give you energy spikes and crashes, and is the primary culprit in Type II diabetes (fruit is ok, as the fiber slows down the glucose uptake into the bloodstream). Plus if you are limiting calories, it reduces the other nutrition you would get (vitamins/minerals) because it literally has nothing else in it. If you want you cut weight, cut out added sugar. Even in bread. Soda is an easy one to point out. Low-fat foods (like yogurt) are the sneaky ones that add sugar to make it palatable. Just avoid it.
2- preservatives. You have more bacteria cells in your gut than there are cells of you. Your intestines are a fermentation vessel, a bioreactor, a pre-digester. Those bacteria help you tolerate foods and extract more nutrition than you can on your own. Preservatives kill those bacteria, and lead to you feeling worse and being less healthy overall.
3- nitrates. These have been implicated in increased risk of heart disease, and the studies claiming red meat were the cause only used nitrate-heavy meats and drew the wrong conclusion from the results. Some newer studies are showing that vitamin C can “passivate”the nitrates and negate that effect, though. So ham might return as a major food group.
Limit- alcohol. It’s not great for you, but I still enjoy the occasional beer and whiskey or wine.
Past that, just eat a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables. No, potatoes are not a vegetable. Green and leafy is what you’re preferably looking for- lettuce, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, etc.
