Its never too late to start eating healthy to make your body healthy.

I LOVE POTATOES

The potato is an important food staple and the number one vegetable crop in the world. Potatoes are available year-round as they are harvested somewhere every month of the year.

Potatoes, grains and pastas along with vegetables
ensured Frank's weight loss of 160 Pounds.

Frank's Eating Starch Foods for Weight Loss Testimony - Click here.

The Amazing Avocado.

People who ate avocados regularly also weighed less, had a lower BMI and significantly less belly fat. They also had more HDL (the “good”) cholesterol.

Try to incorporate avocado into some of your meals.

Get the facts on this avocado super food. Here.

Breakfast
The most important meal of the day. Breakfast actually helps increase your metabolism, so you burn more calories throughout the day. After eight hours of sleep you need to eat so that the brain does not tell the metabolism to go into starve mode. We need to make healthy breakfast choices, loaded with fruits, veggies, whole grains, and healthy protein.

IN A HURRY BREAKFAST IDEAS

Breakfast can be easy with good planning and advanced preparation.

Avocado toast – Instead of spreading butter or margarine on a slice of toasted avocado bread or toasted multigrain bread, spread on avocado to start the day off with some healthy good for you fats!

Green smoothie – You can also drink your breakfast! A green smoothie combines all the deliciousness of a smoothie with the power of raw greens. My favorite is raw spinach, frozen pineapple or papaya, and banana and cold water.

Muffins – In my mind, muffins may be the world’s most perfect food. You can sneak some veggies into muffins, such are shredded carrots, creamed butternut squash, shredded zucchini, etc. Get creative.

If your mornings are rushed, making a batch of muffins on the weekend is a great way to have the kitchen stocked with grab-and-go breakfast food.

Vegan Avocado Coconut Carob Chip Muffins

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup creamed avocado

1/2 cup soy milk, rice milk or almond milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 tablespoons of egg substitute (2 tsp flax seed meal + 6 tsp water)

1 cup shredded sweetened coconut

1 cup vegan carob chips

Preheat oven to 400*F. Prepare your muffin pans with paper liners.In a small bowl combine and mix together the dry ingredients and set a side. In a large bowl combine the wet ingredients and blend well. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients stirring to moisten. Fold in the coconut and carab chips to combine. Do not over mix.

Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full of batter. Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown. Let the muffins set for five minutes before removing them from the pan. Note: If using a large muffin pan the muffins will need to bake for 30 minutes in the oven.

How to make carob chips

French Toast

Vegan Coconut French Toast

Kelli Dunn's French Toast recipe can be made a head of time and warmed when needed.
Click here for the recipe.

Vegan Non Honey Not Made by Bees
Make this Not Honey at Home.

From Mary's Test Kitchen. Click here for her recipe.

I just made this Vegan Honey recipe and it does taste like honey. It can be stored in the cupboard or the refrigerator. This recipe was very easy to make.

Avocado Bread Making with Ian Chin.

Possibly, Ian is doing an okay impression of Julia Child's Cooking Show? LOL!

The Baking Chin Episode 7

I love all the pans hanging on the wall. Ian Chins instructional bread making videos are fantastic and I enjoyed the Lawrence Welk music. I give his video site an A+.

Lunch

Most people love to have a mid day break and eat a little something to keep the body nourished and sustained. The invention of storage cubbies has made life easy for many of us. The lidded cubbies have enabled us to plan and pre-pack food to go.

This is an avocado salad featured from www.robinskey.com.
Visit her site for some great recipes.

Asian Dijon Salad Dressing
Ingredients:
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tbs Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp minced garlic
1/4 tsp minced ginger

Blend together or whisk for a quick and delicious fat free salad dressing

IN A HURRY LUNCH IDEAS

Combine these lunch ideas with a side salad and you will have a winning lunch.

Vegan Hoagie – Spread hummus on the inside of a hoagie. Lay down some vegan cheese and add your favorite vegetables such as shredded romaine lettuce, thinly sliced red onion, peppers, artichoke hearts, sliced tomato, balsamic vinegar, dried oregano, salt and pepper to season.

Falafel Pita – Stuff a pita pocket with hummus spread, baked falafel balls, lettuce, tomatoes, sliced red onion, cucumber, and pickled red pepper . There is a recipe for baked falafels in my recipe collection. Click here for Nana's Top Recipes.

How to Make Pita Bread on the Stove Top

Dinner

Spaghetti alla Carbonara – A beautiful way to energize your metabolism with healthy carbs. A very satisfying dish of pasta goodness. Serve this spaghetti up with a side of steamed broccoli.