Slow-Cooked Chicken

Here’s a SUPER easy fitness dinner. It’s filled with muscle-building protein and dotted with fiber-rich veggies to keep you on track with your fitness goals.

Putting dinner in the slow cooker before you leave for work in the morning is one of the easiest ways to ensure that you’ll be eating a healthy dinner that night. This chicken breast comes out so tender that it literally falls apart—it’s delicious. Enjoy!

Courtesy of RealHealthyRecipes.com

What you need
Servings: 6

1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 small red onion, chopped
1 small yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 lbs organic, boneless, skinless chicken breasts
salt and pepper
12 dried figs, chopped
1 cup butternut squash, chopped
1 cup chicken broth
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
2 Tablespoons fresh tarragon, chopped
2 Tablespoons fresh sage, chopped

Instructions

1. In a large skillet place the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and garlic and sauté for 5 minutes.

Cauliflower Pizza Crust Nutrition Information:
Servings: 6

• Calories: 82
• Total Fat: 4.8 g
• Total Carb: 3.1 g
• Protein: 7.8 g

Ingredients:

• 1 cauliflower head
• 1 egg
• ½ cup parmesan cheese
• Garlic seasoning mix (I used Flavor God Garlic Lovers)
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Boil water and add cauliflower broken up into pieces/chunks/florets.

1. Once cauliflower is somewhat squishy, remove from heat, drain water, and mash with a potato masher.

1. Scoop cauliflower into a dish towel (or cheese cloth), and drain as much water out as humanly possible. I folded the cauliflower into a dishtowel and placed a plate on top in the bottom of the kitchen sink and pressed over and over and over and over again. Once all water is drained, your cauliflower should resemble a ball of dough.

1. Place cauliflower into a bowl, add egg, cheese, and seasonings, and stir until incorporated.
2. This next part is important. Most recipes call for the...

Have you ever enjoyed a big bowl of creamy noodles dotted with plump, juicy shrimp? Delicious, wasn’t it?! Today’s recipe is a lightened up version of that sinfully scrumptious meal.

This recipe uses zucchini to create grain-free, low-calorie noodles and then mixes it with fresh-made pesto and steamed shrimp. The result is as tasty as the original, with half of the calories. Enjoy!

Courtesy of RealHealthyRecipes.com

What you need Servings: 4

4 zucchini ½ cup macadamia nuts 2 cups fresh basil leaves 2 garlic cloves cup nutritional yeast dash of sea salt juice of 1⁄2 a lemon ¼ cup olive oil 2 dozen large shrimp

Instructions

For the Noodles:

1. Run a vegetable peeler along each zucchini until you reach the seeds, to create long, flat noodles. Place your zucchini noodles in a bowl.

For the Pesto:

1. Place the macadamia nuts, basil leaves, garlic, nutritional yeast, salt and lemon juice in a food processor. Pulse until well combined while drizzling in the...

Slow cooker meals are a fantastic method for enjoying lean, homemade dinners without the hassle and time commitment that many recipes entail. By simply throwing the ingredients below into your slow cooker in the morning before you leave for work, you’ll have a hot, delicious meal ready for you when you return home!

The combination of soy sauce, ketchup, garlic and dried basil lend phenomenal flavor to tender chicken thigh in this too-easy-to-believe chicken dinner recipe. Serve with a salad made with dark greens and over a bed of cauliflower rice. Enjoy!

What You Need

Serves 8

• 3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs
• sea salt
• black pepper
• ½ cup low sodium soy sauce
• ½ cup ketchup 
• ¼ cup honey
• 1 Tablespoon garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• *optional sesame seeds for garnish

 Instructions

1.  Generously salt and pepper the chicken thighs. Place in the bottom of a slow cooker.
2. Combine the soy sauce, ketchup, honey, garlic and dried basil....