Yummy to my tummy

I'm not one for posting recipes on my blog. I'm not sure why. Actually, I guess it's because I think we eat pretty boring- a lot of chicken and veggies, turkey wraps, soups, etc. We have just a few things that are staples in our diet every week- smoothies, egg wrap, salmon & vegetables. None of it is really recipe-worthy but we've been trying to experiment a bit more lately.

It's hard though because we try to follow the Zone diet, which means every meal has to have a particular amount of protein and carbohydrates, but also fat. A lot of recipes are high in carbs so we can't use them or we modify them so much, that we might as well not even use the recipe.

Tonight, we made two things that turned out great so I thought I'd share since today was a rest day from working out...

First, it's an egg bake with spinach, cheese, red pepper, and meat. The recipe calls for bacon, but we substitute turkey sausage usually or something leaner.

3 cups fat free milk
1 pkg chicken stuffing mix (6 oz)
2 eggs
2 egg whites
4 slices of bacon (sub any kind of meat here)
1 cup low fat shredded cheddar cheese
1 pkg (10 oz) frozen, chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1 red pepper, chopped

mix it all together, spoon into 13x9 dish, and bake for 40 min at 350 degrees. It makes 8 servings - super yummy and super easy!

The other recipe is for pumpkin muffins which for us, have the perfect amount of carbs and protein in each muffin so they're the perfect snack.

Makes 16 muffins:
1 1/3 cups oat flour
84g of protein (we use vanilla, but it'd be super good w/ cinnamon if we had it)
4 eggs (or 8 egg whites)
1 tablespoon baking powder
2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp maple extract (we use vanilla)
1 lg can of pumpkin (not the pie kind)
5 1/3 tsp canola oil
cinnamon
couple packets of sweet n low (we're still messing around w/ the quantity here)

mix all in a blender or food processor, scoop into muffin tin and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes

YUM!

ENJOY!