12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 11: Grilled Bananas with Nuts and more

Grilled Bananas

2 bananas, quartered LEAVE PEELS ON

Cinnamon

Coconut oil (if desired)

Brush the open side of the banana with coconut oil if desired then sprinkle on cinnamon to taste.  Grill open side down (peel up) for 2-4 minutes, flip and grill peel down for another 2-4 minutes or until the peel starts to separate from the fruit.  Remove from the grill and serve.  It’s fun to eat it right out of the peel.

Add 1-2 Tbs of your favorite nut butter to half a banana and enjoy on a plain rice cake or small ezikel wrap. Check out your local health store for nuts 'n more

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 10: Flank Steak Fajitas Serves:4 12 oz flank steak cut into this strips 2 bell peppers chopped 1 onion chopped Sauté in coconut oil Serve on ezikel sprouted wheat tortilla with chopped cilantro, romwine lettuce, guacamole, salsa, and fresh lime wedges.

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 9: Pumpkin Protein Waffle (I plan on this for Christmas morning)
1/2 cup oats (blend into flour)
1/2 cup Libby plain pumpkin
1/2 cup Egg white international Or replace with 1/2 cup almond milk
1 TBS vanilla Isalean protein powder
1/8 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/8 tsp ginger
Vanilla Stevia

Blend oats and then add the rest of the ingredients. Makes two small Belgium waffles.

Protein Frosting
1/2 cup fage yogurt (for non-dairy friends omit and add water or nut milk to protein powder for desired consitency)
1 scoop vanilla Isalean protein powder
1 TBS Chia seeds

Mix and place in the fridge to thicken for about 30 minutes.

I used all the protein frosting. You can use half and save for another time.

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 8: Garden Salad with Lime Cilantro (thank you Pinterest)

Ingredients:

1 head of lettuce, washed and leaves cut or torn into large pieces

2 tomatoes, sliced or quartered

½ red onion, thinly sliced

1 avocado, sliced or diced

1 tbs finely chopped cilantro

Juice of 2 limes

2 tbs olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

1. To make the dressing whisk the chopped cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, salt and pepper together.
2. Combine the lettuce, tomatoes, onions and avocado in a large bowl.
3. Toss the salad with the dressing and serve.

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 7: Slow Cooker Chili (clean eating magazine click on picture for recipe)
As we get closer to Christmas it feels like the schedules fill up more and more. You need healthy fulfilling food to give you energy to complete your check list. Check out this recipe. Put it in the crockpot in the morning and you have dinner and left overs. Yay!!

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 6: Zucchini Brownies 
 
Click on the picture for the link to the recipe. I added dark chocolate chips and baked them in muffin tins for easy giveaway. 

12 Days of Healthy Holiday Bites

Day 5: Yam Powercake from here

We had breakfast for dinner. Perfect for a Christmas Brunch.

YAM POWERCAKE

1 cooked yam
350 degrees for about 35-40 minutes1 TB coconut flour
2 TB chopped red onion
2 TB Shredded Carrots
2 TB Shredded Zuchinni
Sea Salt & Pepper To Taste
3 egg white
(to hold it together)

Mix ingredients and form into a POWERCAKE
put into a medium heat pan with 1 tsp coconut oil
and cook on each side until browned!