Starting a healthy lifestyle and reaching your fitness goals is NOT easy! Especially when you are busy and the last thing you want to do is spend hours in the kitchen cooking a healthy meal.
In this video I share 3 super easy high protein vegetarian recipes that I’m sure everyone would enjoy! Classic flavors made healthy!
Here are the exact measurement if you want to recreate the recipes with the exact same macros:
Greek Butter Bean Salad
– 1 cup cooked butter beans
– 70g light feta cheese
– 1tbs olive oil
– 1 midi cucumber
– 1 tomato
Frittata
– 5 eggs
– 100g semi-fat curd cheese
– 125g fresh spinach
– 1tsp olive oil
– 50g light feta cheese
Bake in 180 degrees celcius for 20 min. Serve with 2 sliced of bread.
Tomato Soup with Light Grilled Cheese
– 1 cup tomato soup
– 2 slices of bread
– 125g light mozzarella
00:00 – intro
01:15 – Greek Butter Bean Salad
03:38 – Frittata
06:14 – Tomato Soup with Light Grilled Cheese
I truly wish you all the best,
Aga
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What is up YouTube Welcome or welcome back to my channel if you’re new here my name is AA and I would like to again welcome you in 2024 I hope you had an amazing New Year’s Eve I hope you had a good start of the year because we are just about a
Week into the year and I decided to help you out a little bit if you are having some health and fitness goals I am here to provide you with some delicious lunch recipes it might be controversial but lunch is actually my favorite meal of the day because I just really love lunch
Food for some reason like it’s always something thrown together super easy and I just want to show you that if your goal is to lose weight or be healthier it doesn’t have to be hard and these lunches that I have for you today are actually definitely weight loss approved
So all of them are first of all vegetarian because I am vegetarian they’re high in protein so they provide from 20 to 30 g of protein per meal and they’re low in calories so all of the meals that I’m making today are below 500 calories per portion so you know you
Can stick to your calorie deficit and also get enough protein in as a vegetarian because I know that a lot of people struggle with it and I’m here to help so without further Ado let’s just get into it let’s start making delicious food the first meal I’m going to be
Showing you how to make is one of my all-time favorites especially in the summer which if you live in a warmer climate I’m very jealous but it’s a Greek salad with beans so it’s a high protein Greek salad and it’s extremely easy to make and as you can see it’s
Absolutely massive I love using beans and I think everybody should eat more beans because it’s one of the healthiest foods on our planet it has a lot of fiber protein they are just a Powerhouse of health and we all should eat more of them and there’s two ways to make eating
Beans easier either you cook them like I did I cooked a big batch of butter beans earlier this week so now I’m using it throughout the week or even easier you can just get a can of fi and you just have them on hand whenever you want as
An added bonus I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like a Greek salad so I’m pretty sure everyone is going to like the recipe so without further Ado let’s just get into it so I really like something warm in my salad so I’m putting the beans on with some olive oil and some
Chicken seasoning on a pan to warm it up make it a little bit crispy and just generally a little bit better look how nice they get and then I’m just putting the warmed up beans alongside with a cutup tomato some cucumbers get some really crunchy ones it’s just so much
Better and then some crumbled up feta because it’s kind of going to mix in with the dressing and then some olive oil remember not to add maybe too much but still add a good amount it makes it much much better and then any seasonings that you like mix it really well it’s
Going to become nice and creamy and that’s it so this is the finished meal as you can see it’s quite a big portion I mean this bowl is actually massive and we don’t need to add any dressing because the crumble feta kind of mixes in with the olive oil and the juices
From the tomato and the cucumber and kind of makes a dressing on its own it really took 15 minutes we have a lot of fiber we have micronutrients from the vegetables and then we also have protein from both the beans and the feta and this all brings us to 435 calories and
25 g of protein which I think the protein content is surprising because it’s vegetarian and it’s just beans and cheese that are adding the protein to it but you should not underestimate light feta cheese and a bunch of beans and this one is also perfect to pack up for
Lunch or make double and pack up half for next day for lunch for work so the next meal is another very simple one and one that is using a lot of different sources of protein and it’s a spinach frittata so it’s basically just baked eggs with some cheese I’m using cage
Cheese because that one is just what I had available and it has a bunch of protein mixed with eggs spinach and then some light feta for just yet another boost of protein and then to make the meal complete we have some bread I’m just going to show you how to make it
Because this is one of my favorites and it’s just so delicious to start with we need five eggs I’m not actually showing myself cracking five eggs cuz that would be very excessive at five whole eggs you can also switch it up for some egg whites but I don’t think it’s necessary
And then I’m seasoning it right away and I’m going to add some curd cheese it’s very popular in Poland I don’t know if you can find it where you live it has a lot of protein more than cottage cheese but if you cannot find Cur cheese I
Think cottage cheese would work fine in this case and then I’m just blending it up really well and then on a pan I’m adding a full bag of spinach with some olive oil and a tiny bit of water to make it a little bit faster and garlic
I’m lazy so I’m using granulated garlic and then I’m covering it up because what we want to do is we want to wilt it completely and then also draw out the water so I keep it on a pan for a little bit longer till it’s a little bit drier
And then I put it on on a light light lined I cannot speak a lined pan with some feta and the cooked spinage I added in in hot and nothing happens so you don’t have to wait for it to cool apparently and then I put it in the oven
And this is what the fata looks straight out of the oven I had it in the oven for exactly 20 minutes at 180 Cel this recipe makes exactly two portions so I’m just going to cut it in half in fourth so that it’s easier to eat so half the
Fata has 300 calories and 28 g of protein however it has no carb so it’s not necessarily a complete meal it’s just straight up protein and fats in here so I added two slices of bread I just have white bread if you want a little bit more fiber I would recommend
Some whole wheat bread or some sourdough bread it’s just all I have today so with adding the slices of bread it brings the whole meal to about 500 calories and 35 g of protein which if you ask me it’s a very solid meal and bonus points it
Would also make a nice breakfast so it doesn’t only have to be a lunch and it’s easy to meal prep as well because as you can see I have half left but you can make a bigger batch of it and have it throughout the week I think I am the
Most excited about this last meal idea just because it is such a classic that everybody enjoys and I think it’s also one of the things that people would cut out of their diets when they’re trying to eat healthier or lose weight which is completely unnecessary in my opinion
Because we are going to make a very classic grilled cheese and tomato soup which in my opinion is just a perfect low calorie meal that can also pack a lot of protein because we’re going to use light mozzarella instead of regular like gaoua cheese that you would typically use for grilled cheese and
We’re also going to make it an open-faced sandwich so we are able to get more protein in on the toast and you’re probably thinking that making making soup is not necessarily easy or fast which I agree it’s not I have some leftovers which I’m going to use but
It’s very unusual for me to make soup I usually just buy pre-made soup at the supermarket and that makes it very easy just as easy as the recipe if you can even call it that because I just sliced up a full bowl of light mozzarella added
In on toast and in the oven until it’s nice and melty and I also heat up the soup this is leftovers again just buy it from the Super Market or make it however you like serve it with the grilled cheese and that’s it I know this is
Probably not the most aesthetic way to capture a grilled cheese and tomato soup moment but the cheese is perfectly melted and it has an amazing cheese pool and we have a lot of cheese so if you are a cheese lover you should definitely know that you can and should eat cheese
On your weight loss Journey unless you’re allergic to dairy or don’t tolerate it very well but in the end this whole thing packs 500 calories and 30 g of protein for just a classic that everybody loves and something that can easily just be a girl dinner or a girl
Lunch so this just wraps up the video I H you enjoy that I really tried to keep it short and sweet and to make the recipes as easy as possible so that you can easily recreate them at home and that they help you stay healthy this
Year and reach all of your goals and if you’re still here thank you so much for watching this video and if you liked it please give me a thumbs up and click the Subscribe button it just shows me that you like my videos and I really appreciate that and that being said I
Wish you all the best when it comes to your New Year’s resolutions and I wish you to achieve all of your goals that you have set up for 2024 and yeah love you bye