Results tagged “Healthy recipes” from The Sneaky Chef

Dear Missy,

Have you thought of partnering up with public and private schools.  It would be great if they could start incorporating these foods and meal plans to the kids of this nation.  We are struggling more and more with children becoming obese. Not only is it important for kids to eat better at home but at school as well. The spend 8 hrs or more a day there.  Sometimes eating 3 meals there. –Gloria A.

Dear Gloria,

Dear Missy,

Do you do any quantity recipes like for a school cafeteria?
I would love to incorporate your ideas with mine.PK-8 grade students.
Just a thought...

Vicky

Dear Vicky,

I haven't turned Sneaky Chef recipes into quantity recipes myself, but some large institutions have! like Columbia University Children's Hospital. They are successfully using my recipes in patient rooms and in their staff cafeteria as well. They server thousands. What ideas are you thinking about?

All the best,

Missy

Missy
I love both of your books- and I would love to share hint based on
your green juice- I 3x's the recipe in a big soup pot
( Ioften include 3 cups of Swiss Chard or Kale)freeze the juice in
icecube trays that measure about 1TB1/2size cubes) I then put 2 green
juice cubes into my 3 1/2 year olds favorite watered down no sugar
added organic fruit juice - I often defrost the cubes in microwave
slighty and adjust how much I water down the juice based on how green
it may or may not taste but I figure based on your calculations he
gets about 1/2cupto3/4cup of green nutirents in his favorite daily
drink-My child is none the wiser! I often do this for myself as well !
Thank you for your wonderful books - We were already a very healthy
food conscious family but you have contributed some new great ideas
and recipes. –Melissa C.

Some of you have noticed that I've started to add nutritional analysis to the free recipes offered on my website, prompted by your requests.  While I intentionally designed all of my recipes to be lower in calories and fat and high in fiber, I was also concerned with slipping in the superfoods that can change our health for the better. It wasn't until I saw the numbers myself  that I realized the final Sneaky Chef recipes often have only a fraction of the calories and fat of their traditional counterparts, and usually many times the fiber. It's no wonder my husband is losing weight and his cholesterol is down!

One group of firemen I interviewed for the Sneaky Chef Men's Book told me that it would be one thing to hide what they called "super veggies" in their favorite foods, but that it would be quite another to have their favorite comfort foods remade to be lower in calories and fat. They didn't believe I could do it while still having their favorite meals turn out tasting as good as the original. That was what they wanted: to have it taste like the original, but be healthy.

So the challenge was laid out before me. I'd been able to do it with kid's meals, but these were grown men. They were ready to detect  anything even slightly different, and I took this as a challenge.
Their desires resulted in sneakily enhanced versions of many of their favorites, including Boosted Buffalo Wings, Major Leek Soup, Hobo Hash and Stacked Pancakes (click here to go to The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man in the Kitchen).

I say, if you can make it taste just as good, why not make every recipe as healthy as it can be? If you'd like to see your favorite fattening recipe remade The Sneaky Chef way and made way healthier, please send it to me in this blog or to my email at Missy@TheSneakyChef.com.  I'll work on as many recipes as I can, and post the results and the before and after nutritional comparisons on this site.

Thanks for all your great comments and support!

With healthiest regards,

Missy Chase Lapine
The Sneaky Chef