Try these 3 Belly Good recipes.
It’s as close to a modern American holiday as you can get—it’s Super Bowl Sunday!
If you’re a true-blue football fan, you know all about which team has the most Vince Lombardi trophies, which player rushed for the most yards in one game and which quarterback was the most renowned MVP player of the year.
But did you know that Super Bowl Sunday is the second-largest day for food consumption? (First is Thanksgiving Day) Or that on this day, more than eight million pounds of guacamole and 14,500 tons of chips will be consumed before the two-minute warning? Or that on the Monday after the Big Game, the sale of antacids will increase by 20 percent and 6 percent of the people who watched the game will call in sick for work?
Before you charge off to your favorite grocery store and fast-food establishment with your list of gut-busting snacks and “belly bad” beverages, here are 3 super healthy recipes from health and fitness expert Jorge Cruise and his best-selling book The Belly Fat Cure. These will help you score a trimmer waistline during this year’s Super Bowl feast:
1. Pepperoni Pizza Do-Over Meal (Serves 4):
Compared to a Schlotsky’s Pepperoni and Double Cheese Pizza Meal Deal of 52 grams of sugar and 8 servings of carbs—more than you should have in an entire day, my Pepperoni Pizza Meal Do-Over has only 4 grams of sugar and 2 servings of carbs.
Pizza:
4 (6”) Sara Lee Mr. Pita Whole Wheat Pita Breads
8 Tbsp. Ragu Homemade Style Pizza Sauce
1 cup grated mozzarella
12 oz. Sliced pepperoni
1 Tbsp grated Parmesan
Preheat over to 425 degrees F. Warm pitas on a baking sheet in the oven for 5 minutes; remove.
Spread 2 tbsp. of pizza sauce over each pita; top with cheese and pepperoni. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cheese has melted. Garnish with grated Parmesan.
Salad:
4 cups arugula greens
1 lime, cut into wedges
16 (1”) pieces of shaved Parmesan
Shave Parmesan cheese with a vegetable peeler over the arugula and garnish with fresh lime wedges.
Other sides:
4 cans Zevia Natural Cola
Serve with 1 soda per person.
2. Chicken Strips Do-Over (Serves 4):
Even though Denny’s Chicken Strips dish is just an appetizer, it has more than a day’s worth of sugar on the Belly Fat Cure and 4 servings of carbs. My easy meal is perfect for game day—just be sure to pass out plenty of napkins. You get 3 pieces of chicken per serving and a great dip, all for 2/1 (2 grams of sugar/1 serving of carbs).
Chicken strips:
4 large chicken breasts
Salt and pepper, to taste
1/2 cup Scott’s Barbecue Sauce
Tabasco Pepper Sauce, to taste
2 Tsp. chili powder
1/2 Tsp. ground cayenne pepper
Blue-cheese dip:
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 Tbsp. red-wine vinegar
1 Tsp. Dijon mustard
1/2 cup blue-cheese crumbles
1 Tsp. finely chopped shallots
Other sides:
4 celery sticks, cut into 4" pieces
Tabasco Pepper Sauce, for serving
For the chicken:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Layer a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Cut each chicken breast lengthwise into 3 even pieces, for a total of 12 pieces. Season as desired and put in the oven for 15–20 minutes or until done. Stir together the barbecue sauce, Tabasco, chili powder, and cayenne pepper. When the chicken is ready, brush barbecue mixture on both sides until coated, and place it back in the oven for 2 more minutes.
For the blue-cheese dip:
Mix the listed ingredients in a food processor until smooth.
Serve the chicken strips with a side of blue-cheese dip and celery—and be sure to leave the bottle of Tabasco on the table!
3. Outrageous Chocolate Brownies (Serves 16):
Eat a few of those Little Debbie brownies and there will be nothing little about your waistline! With 21 grams of sugar, there’s more sugar in 1 brownie that I recommend you eat in an entire day. My delicious brownie has a nice light texture and indulgently rich chocolate flavor. Enjoy as a tasty special-occasion dessert, or have it as often as you like. It has no sugar!
Brownie:
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Joseph’s Maltitol Sweetener syrup
1 1/2 Tsp. vanilla extract
3 eggs
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 Tsp. baking powder
1/2 Tsp. salt
Optional Glaze:
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
1/4 cup maltitol sweetener syrup
2–5 packets Truvia, to taste
For the brownies:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8" square pan. In a bowl, blend softened butter with maltitol syrup and vanilla. Add eggs and beat well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add to egg mixture and stir until well blended.
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 40–45 minutes. Cool completely.
For the glaze:
Heat cream and chocolate over low heat and stir frequently until melted. Remove from heat and whisk in maltitol syrup until smooth. Add Truvia one packet at a time to taste. Pour glaze over the brownies and let set before cutting into 2" squares.
Recipes excerpted from The Belly Fat Cure by Jorge Cruise. Copyright © 2009 (Hay House).
Hay House was founded in 1984 by Louise L. Hay as a way to self-publish her first two books, Heal Your Body and You Can Heal Your Life (YCHYL), both of which became bestsellers and established Louise as a leader in the New Age movement. To date, YCHYL has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and has been published in 25 languages. Today, Hay House is committed to publishing products that have a positive self-help slant conducive to healing planet Earth.
