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October 2017

Making Recipes Wellthy

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recipes simplified & made wellthy

My parents always made delicious home cooked meals so there was never a need to learn how to cook…until I got married. Looking at recipes we’re daunting to me. There were so many ingredients I would need to buy! It honestly seemed cheaper to just eat out than to buy all the ingredients necessary. PLUS, the time & effort it took to make the meal didn’t seem worth it to me, especially because my husband scarfs it down in a few minutes! After experimenting for a couple of years, I’m happy to say I’ve found some go-to recipes I love! I found myself naturally altering them in two ways: switching out ingredients to make it healthier, and cutting a few corners to make it quicker and easier!

how to make a recipe healthier

I look at every ingredient in the recipe & ask myself if there’s a way to make it healthier. If a recipe calls for milk, I would replace it with it almond milk. If a recipe calls for regular flour, I can replace it with oat or sprouted spelt flour. If the recipe calls for quinoa, I can use sprouted quinoa for extra nutrition. You could swap meat for vegetables. This is easy & something you can try with your favorite recipes! If you have a recipe you love to eat but avoid because it’s unhealthy, try swapping out some ingredients for healthier version.

“wellthy switches”

 

White/wheat flour – oat, sprouted spelt flour

Milk – almond, coconut milk

Cheese – raw cheddar

Salt – pink Himalayan sea salt

Chocolate chips – cacao nibs

Sugar – honey, coconut sugar

how to simplify a recipe

This one is a little more complex to explain. But each time I my go-to recipe’s, I find steps or ingredients in the recipe that I don’t find make a big difference. Taking short cuts is a better way to explain it. Whether it’s a certain spice I don’t have, or a way to cook something. This cuts down the ingredients I need to buy (any way to save money, am I right?!) It also cuts down the time, effort & dishes in cooking!!! Who doesn’t want that?!

Check out my recipe page for my go-to recipes. I also encourage you to do this at home with recipes you find on pinterest. Feel like you’ve ran out of recipes to choose from when searching “healthy recipes”? Try searching for normal recipes & swapping out ingredients to make them healthier! I find it gives me more variety. Happy cooking 😀