How to maintain Clean Eating Superbowl Weekend

This weekend is the Super Bowl and if you are like me, you enjoy food and especially appetizers and picky foods. I went searching for some clean eating appetizers. I love introducing clean foods to people who think it's all about veggies. The key to any appetizer is to indulge in moderation. It's not a meal and you should not fill up entirely on too much of one thing. Even though hummus and guacamole are good fats, they should not be consumed in excessively large amounts. 

Here is a great link from TBB to view on 25 great Game snacks! Make healthy choices! 

http://www.teambeachbody.com/teambeachbodyblog/nutrition/25-healthy-game-day-snacks?ICID=CT_BLOG_BIG_GAME

If you are headed to a party and have no control over the food, here are some tips.

1.   Pre-Eat: Never rely on what is being provided in HOPES that it is going to be clean. Spend your time focusing on socializing instead of hanging out at the food table.
2. Choose small plates: Always grab an appetizer plate instead of a big dinner plate and load up on veggies and fresh fruit. Stay away from creamy dips and all the fried food. The small plates will remind you to stay within your portion sizes. When you use a larger plate you tend to over eat and fill the plate with more than you need.
3. Drink lots of water: If you decide to have a few drinks, stay hydrated. Go with low calorie options like vodka and club soda with a splash of lime or lemon.
4. Stay away from certain ingredients: Try to avoid anything that is made with mayonnaise, crème cheese, sour crème, or heavy crème. There are lots of calories and fat hidden in there. It doesn't matter if its "low-fat" or "no-fat" because then its just loaded with chemicals and far from clean eating.  To clean up these recipes with those ingredients always use Greek yogurt.  

Clean Super Bowl snacks are anything but boring! These decadent offerings are cleaned-up takes on some of your favorite football treats.
Super Bowl Sunday is well known for massive amounts of highly fattening
and unhealthy foods. But it doesn’t have to be that way. This year, take
the challenge of a clean eating super bowl feast!
Clean eating is simply the art of eating foods that are not processed and
are as close to the way nature intended them as possible. If something has
ingredients in it that you can’t pronounce, or that you wouldn’t use in
your own kitchen, it’s probably not clean. This may sound a bit
overwhelming when you think of your typical day of eating. But it’s really
quite simple, and can easily be applied to your Super Bowl meal. To prove
it, here’s one clean eating recipe the guys are sure to love!

Clean Eating TexMex Dip

 This dip is by far my favorite appetizer!

 

(Makes 20 servings – 1/4 cup)

Ingredients:

• 1 (12 ounce) jar of your favorite salsa, no sugar added
• 1 (15 ounce) can black olives, chopped
• 1 (15 ounce) can non-fat, refried beans, no sugar added
• 3 avocados
• Juice of 1 lime
• 2 large roma tomatoes, chopped
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro, loosely packed

  Directions:

  1. Combine the beans and the salsa in a pot and warm while stirring constantly. Once they are warm and well combined, remove from heat and pour the beans into your serving dish.
  2. Make your guacamole using the avocados, lime juice, garlic powder and onion powder. Add salt to taste. Layer the guacamole over the beans.
  3. Top with olives and tomatoes next and finish with the fresh cilantro.
  4. Serve with your favorite, clean corn chips or whole grain crackers.
  
  
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Clean Eating BBQ Chicken Roll

Ingredients
1 batch Clean Eating Pizza Dough
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp clean bbq sauce (I use the OrganicVille brand)
2 large chicken breasts
1 lb. crimini mushrooms
3 shallots
1 tbsp. olive oil + extra for greasing a cookie sheet
1 cup low-fat mozzarella cheese
Tools needed
1 full-sized cookie sheet
1 rolling pin
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 1 – Place the chicken breasts in the oven with 1 tbsp. bbq sauce on
each breast. Bake until the chicken reaches 160 degrees F. on a
thermometer.
Step 2 – While the chicken bakes, slice the mushrooms and dice the
shallots. Saute in a pan with the olive oil.
Step 3 – Grease the cookie sheet and roll out the dough until it covers
the entire sheet.
Step 4 – Spread on the bbq sauce, being sure to leave about an inch of raw
(no sauce) dough all the way around.
Step 5 – Spread on the mushrooms over the sauce.
Step 6 – When the chicken is done, shred it with two forks and toss onto
the pizza roll, over the mushrooms.
Step 7 – Top everything with the mozzarella.
Step 8 – At one of the narrow ends, begin rolling the dough up like a
carpet until you have a nice “log”. Seal the end by turning the roll
slightly on the cookie sheet so that it sits on the end piece of the dough.
This will seal it as it bakes. Pinch off the ends so your filling does not
leak out during baking.
Step 9 – Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. The crust will be firm and almost
brittle.
Step 10 – Slice and serve topped with a little extra bbq sauce.
Credit: Tiffany McCauley publishes The Gracious Pantry, a blog about healthy living and clean eating recipes

Clean Eating Seasoned Potato Wedges

Ingredients:

• Potatoes, peeled and cut in to wedges
• Olive oil in an oil sprayer
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder

Try Swanson® Veggie Broth in this Recipe.

 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a small mixing bowl, combine your spices.
3. Spray a cookie sheet with olive oil and spread out the potato wedges in a single layer.
4. Sprinkle the spices over the potatoes. Go ahead, be generous.
5. Bake for about 20-30 minutes or until the potatoes are soft when poked with a fork.
6. If you like soft fries, you can take them out of the oven now. If you like crunchier fries, turn your oven on broil and broil for about 10 minutes more, or until the potatoes start to brown nicely.
7. Allow to cool for a bit. (Potatoes tend to hold on to heat!)

Clean Eating Potato Wedges

 Clean Eating Spinach Dip

 Clean Eating Turkey Chili

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