Get Healthy Blog Hop

Welcome to the Get Healthy Blog Hop! 

First, let me thank the hosts of this hop, Alex J. Cavanaugh, Stephen Tremp, L. Diane Wolfe, Michael Di Gesu, for teaming up and putting together this hop! 

The Objective of this hop is to share with everyone something you've done that affected your health in a positive way. I'm going to share 5 easy tips anyone can do to keep from overeating and packing on unwanted pounds.

1. Eat on a lunch plate instead of a dinner plate. Dinner plates are bigger, and therefore easier to load up with too much of a good thing.

2. Wait 10-15 minutes before going back for seconds. Sometimes it takes our stomachs a little time to tell our brains we're full.

3. Before you super-size your meal, make a fist. Now remember that your stomach is the size of your fist and ask yourself if you really need a super-sized portion.

4. Avoid empty calories, especially at night. Sugary drinks, alcohol, and junk food may help satisfy quick cravings, but those empty calories add up. If you drink or eat before bed, then you aren't burning off those calories. Can't give up the treats? Try cutting back or switching to low calorie beverages and healthy snacks after 6pm.

5.  Get your family involved in eating right. It's much easy to make healthy choices when you aren't doing it alone.

Before I go, I'd like to share with you a recipe for what my husband and I like to call Carnival Stuffed Peppers because they are not only healthy but colorful, too.

Carnival Stuffed Peppers:

Ingredients:

  1 lb. ground turkey

  1 Tbs olive oil (or coconut oil)

  1 tsp Spikes seasoning

  1 Tbs oregano

  1 Tbs basil

  1 Tbs minced onion

  ½ tsp crushed red pepper (optional)

  1 cup fresh spinach (rinsed)

  3 bell peppers (I like to use 1-green, 1-red, and 1-yellow)

  Season salt

  1 cup cooked brown rice

Cooking Directions:

-  Cook brown rice according to directions (start this first since brown rice takes longer to cook)

-  Cut bell peppers in half and then slice off ¼-inch from each pepper

-  Dice the ¼-inch slices of bell pepper and set aside

-  Place halves in a casserole dish and sprinkle with season salt

-  Set aside

-  Brownie meat with small amount of olive oil, Spikes seasoning, salt, oregano, basil, minced onion, and crushed red pepper

-  Add in the diced bell pepper

-  Mix in cooked brown rice

-  Stir in spinach and cook until spinach starts to become soft

-  Pour mixture over bell pepper halves. 

Bake covered for 30 minutes on 400. And enjoy!

If you're near Twitter this Friday, 7pm EDT, look for hashtag #Omnilicious. You'll find several authors from Omnific chatting about all sorts of things and giving away books.

Be sure to follow the links below for more tips on being healthy!