Today I am in Valpolicella tasting Amarone – my favorite wine. 🙂
Lisa from Healthful Sense has graciously composed a rockin’ guest post for you all. This is the first in a serious of guest posts from some of my FAVORITE bloggers. Lisa’s blog is fairly new to me. It was love at first visit to her site when I saw her innvoative, tasty-looking recipes. (Epecially the vegan brownies – OMG).
Hopefully you will discover some new bloggers through this guest series!
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Morning! I’m Lisa and I blog over at Healthful Sense!
I’m so excited to be a guest poster on Laura’s blog today! We have alot in common – we love to eat healthy, make crazy food concoctions, and share a love of peanut flour (yeah baby). She definitely has me beat on the exercise though!
One other commonality that we share is that we are extremely busy… she with work and working out… and I with kids (3 rugrats). I still haven’t decided which is more exhausting — working 3 jobs (before I had kids) or being a stay-at-home mom of 3 little ones.
Anyway, since we are both busy people it’s safe to say that we’ve both become “experts” on making quick, healthy meals. So quick & healthy meals are going to be the theme of today’s post.
Quick & Healthy Meal Ideas
1. Greek Yogurt
Greek yogurt is usually put in the snack category but because it’s so rich in protein you can easily make a quick meal out of it.
Here are some fabulous ideas:
Laura’s cinnamon roll oats:
And her Sweet Potato Greek Yogurt:
You have got to try the sweet potato/greek yogurt combo… it is amazing!!
Another fabulous combo is peanut flour/greek yogurt!! It’s packed with protein from both the peanut flour and the greek yogurt. I recently did a post about peanut flour — it’s a great product that you can add to just about anything!
One last idea is this dark chocolate hemp mousse made with greek yogurt.
2. Smoothies
Smoothies might just be the perfect quick & healthy meal. We both make killer green smoothies!
Laura’s Avocado Green Smoothie:
And my High Protein Green Smoothie:
3. Pudding
These pudding ideas are packed with protein and sure to satisfy.
4. Bananas & Peanut butter
This is my all-time favorite quick/healthy meal. Simply a banana with peanut butter, cococa powder and cinnamon.
Now you have no excuse for skipping a meal due to the lack of time 😉
What is your favorite quick and healthy meal?
♥ Lisa
Stop by and visit me soon at Healthful Sense … muah!
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I’m with Lisa – PB and banana is the best snack. 🙂
Have you ever put avocado in your smoothie?
What’s your favorite wine?
I’m always trying new wines from TJ’s… so hard to pick a favorite! I’m still loving the TJ’s Australian Shiraz (in.a.box) — it has the equivalent of 4 bottles of wine for $10 and it’s good!
Can’t wait to hear about your adventures!
TY for the kind words… <3 your blog too 😉
Have a safe trip…
I like my Chinese Take-In. If you have pre-made rice (like an Uncle Ben’s pouch or just leftover rice in your fridge, it’s a super fast and delicious meal)
Love all of these recipes…perfect…simple, quick, and healthy!! <3
I have never put avocado in my smoothie, but I am sure it would be delicious!
Have so much fun in Italy!!
Oh how I adore peanut flour in yogurt! [Also one to try? Coconut flour!]
Sweet potato pudding…I’m about to click on that link and see if it’s similar to something I whip up on occasion. 🙂
Cinnamon roll oats sound so great right now!
I still have to try the sweet potato yogurt (it sounds so tasty!) but that dark chocolate mousse sounds way amazing too! Thanks so much for the ideas 🙂
My favorite wine is Prosecco from Conegliano 😀
Great assortment of healthy eats.
Favorite wine??? You can’t ask a wino or a glutton that question. 🙂 The answer is always it depends on the mood and the food. Cheers!
Yum all of those sound delicious!!
Laura – hope you are having the time of your life right now!!
Thanks for the post, Lisa! Your blog is fun (I just had a pumpkin smoothie, oddly enough)! Favorite wine? Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc, hands down. Crisp and a lil tang with endings of passion fruit! Whaaaa…???
Ooh just catching up on everyones posts! Readers looking crazyyyy right about now!! Great ideas though guys! Obviously i’m already a massive fan of Lisa! 🙂 And Laura, hope your having an amazing holiday love! I’m sure you are!! Can’t wait to read all about it! 🙂