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and discuss how the ingredients can benefit your health and in today's video
I'm sharing with you some healthy ideas for dinner that are easy to make
delicious and you are going to love them so the first dinner we're making are
these squash bits so I'm using a delicata squash here but
you can definitely use any kind of squash that you find at your grocery
store whether that's butternut or acorn or even Honey Nut so go ahead and cut it
in half and just scrape out any seeds that might be in your squash and the
great thing about consuming squash is not only is it in season but all those
wonderful colors all that orange is loaded with beta-carotene and that
really not only helps to support your immune system but really helps to
support your eyes as well so then scoop out all of the seeds and lay that on a
baking sheet now depending on what squash you use your baking time will
vary so you might want to prep these in advance I find they take about 30
minutes so then while that's in the oven I'm heating a pan to medium heat and I'm
adding in some ground turkey now you can do any kind of protein you want here you
can even do ground chicken or some grass-fed beef I'm taking this simply
Organic seasoning it's just my go-to seasoning because it has a bunch of
things in it so it makes it really easy grinding that on top and we're gonna
Brown it until all of it is cooked especially with Turkey and chicken you
want to make sure it's cooked all the way through so once that's done and
that's nice and brown we can go ahead and add in some sauce so this is one of
my tricks not all of us have time to make homemade sauce all the time so just
having jars on-hand you just combine the sauce which has all of the spices
everything you need in it with the meat and your kind of a good to go so it just
makes it really quick and easy if you're like me you don't have a lot of time to
make dinner stir that together until it's nice and warm and then once your
squash is done you can go ahead and fill the middle with your ground turkey or
chicken or whatever protein you are using and then if you want you can add
on tops and dairy-free cheese I kind of I do this if I have some on hand but if
you don't have some one hand don't worry estill tastes delicious either way and
the warmth of ground turkey with the tomato kind of
melts that cheese on top but you could definitely pop it back in your oven if
you want to broil it for a couple minutes until it gets bubbly but this is
honestly such an easy and delicious dinner that you can meal prep in advance
too because you can make a batch of it and it's going to be easy to grab at
night next up we're making a roasted veggie Bowl so I'm starting off by
chopping up some zucchini and with all of these veggies you can definitely
switch it up for whatever veggie that you like most so don't feel like you
have to do the exact same ones that I do it's kind of just the premise of
creating a sheet pan meal it's really easy because we're gonna be throwing
everything onto one pan and then putting it in the oven and you're gonna be good
to go so there's not a lot of cleanup I don't know about you but I hate cleanup
and then I'm chopping up some red onion loaded with great things for you onion
is another great thing to consume in the fall in the winter time and to slice it
up easily I just make slits down the side and then I turn it sideways and
chop it again the other way so this is a really quick and easy way to chop any
kind of onion so go ahead and break those up and lay that on to your baking
sheet with some parchment paper or just make sure that you grease it well
because we don't want it to stick so then I'm also laying on some mushrooms
mushrooms are loaded with what we call beta glucan so they're really good for
your gut and I like loading this tray with many different kinds of veggies
because all the different veggies and all the different colors have different
great things for you so these are some root vegetables that I found on sale it
was a mix of parsnip and sweet potato and butternut and all of these all these
orange colors are loaded with beta-carotene and beta-carotene is good
for your immune system but it's also good for your eyes so we really want to
support all of the different things in our body so choosing different
vegetables with different colors it's really gonna help us do that so then for
my protein I'm just using a chicken thighs I finally have more flavor than
your chicken breasts laying that on the side and then I'm going to spray
everything with a little bit of avocado oil just so that everything really
sticks and avocado oil is also something good to use that has a higher smoke
point so it's good to use if you're using a smoke point over about 350 for
my seasoning I'm Sitara seasoning I really like this but
you can definitely use whatever kind of seasoning is your favorite you can even
just do salt and pepper and keep it simple you could do garlic Italian Greek
but I like kind of just buying mixes like this to kind of experiment at my
local grocery store and try accounting some different flavors so once you pop
that in the oven everything gets cooked and you have this wonderfully easy
dinner full of vegetables and good for you protein so then for the base I
always like to start off with a handful of greens just to really make sure that
I'm getting those nutrients in and I find with greens the darker color the
better so if you can go for something like spinach or arugula that's gonna
have more nutrients in it then for example in iceberg or romance or if you
can I would choose that or even just do a mix of 5050 and then I'm just loading
everything on the top and the great thing about this is that obviously this
pan makes enough for more than one meal so even if you wanted to take leftovers
for lunch today this is a great thing to kind of have for dinner and then that
way you have lunch to take the next day to school or to work and you have all
these wonderfully flavorful and veggies they're gonna be good for your body and
also taste good too and then we are making a tuna rice bowl so I am using
some tuna but you can use your favorite kind of fish what I like to do is I like
to buy things on sale and this week I found tuna on sale I suppose - salmon
and tuna is honestly so delicious it's loaded with what is it called vitamin b6
+ b6 not only supports many different like reactions in your body in order to
make amino acids and things like that but b6 is also really good for energy so
we need energy get through our days and we don't want to be deficient in b6 so
what I do is I sear my tuna for about a minute I'm in 30 on each side and then I
take it off to rest while I'll make the rest of it so I'm using some broccoli
rice mainly because they were out of cauliflower rice and broccoli is really
good it's what has a 3c in it or indole-3 carbinol which really helps to
balance your hormones so if you're someone that struggles with that loading
up on broccoli is going to be really great for you and my secret to making
very very delicious whether it's broccoli or cauliflower rice is adding
in at east of key this one is a specifically garlic
flavored and just really helps to make it nice and fluffy so while that is
cooking I'm just gonna go ahead and slice up my tuna to eat on top I just
find it's easier to slice it so that I can eat it you can definitely put the
full thing on the top and I like to have mine on the more rare side but
definitely cook it to your preference if you are gonna be eating rare though you
do want to make sure that you're buying a good grade of fish and tuna depending
on where you are that might be called different things where I buy it it's
sashimi grade it's that you can eat it raw in the middle but depending on where
you are or depending on whatever fish you have so once that's done I'm adding
in some cilantro and some lime to kind of make a a cilantro lime broccoli rice
this is honestly full of so much flavor you're gonna love this in the addition
of the fresh herbs honestly really elevates and otherwise just like cooked
broccoli rice so stir that together and the heat of the rice is going to kind of
wilt down that cilantro and then I'm going to be adding that into my bowl and
this is also something if you wanted to make the whole package of your you know
your broccoli rice or your cauliflower rice it's good to have on hand for many
different meals throughout the day and throughout the week and then I'm gonna
be adding my fish on the top like I said you can do any kind of fish here halibut
would be good la Pia but fish is good because it's full of omega-3s and a lot
of people don't actually eat enough fish and they're not getting all those
beneficial nutrients for some healthy fat I'm adding in some avocado on the
top which really goes well with almost any kind of fish and then for a little
bit more crunch I'm putting on some sesame seeds so it just really kind of
brings the whole dish together and really works well with the rice the tuna
and the avocado but this is definitely more of a special Bowl that I really
like to make and it cooks very quick you're gonna love all of these healthy
dinner recipes they're easy quick and of course delicious I'm gonna leave my
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in my next video I'm going to be sharing with you a delicious healthy chili
recipe it's cozy yummy paleo gluten free but tastes so good especially
like colder days and getting into the winter months so stay tuned for that I
hope you guys are all having a great day and I will see you in my next video bye
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