Clean Up Your Recipes

Do you struggle finding clean, healthy recipes to cook? Don’t know whether it’s actually good or not? Never fear! Here are some simple tips of how to clean up some everyday recipes.

Breakfast Recipe Example: Blueberry Pankcakes

Ingredients – Serves 4	What to Swap to
150g (1 cup) self-raising flour 1 egg, lightly whisked 500ml (2 cups) buttermilk  Melted butter, to grease 125g punnet fresh blueberries  Pure maple syrup, to serve	½  cup Buckwheat flour ½ cup almond meal or protein powder Don’t swap 500mL A2 light or Almond milk Coconut butter Don’t Swap Low fat pot set yoghurt

Lunch Recipe Example: Classic turkey club sandwich

Ingredients – Serves 2	What to Swap to
6 rashers short-cut bacon 6 slices multigrain bread 1/4 cup whole-egg mayonnaise 4 small iceberg lettuce leaves 125g shaved turkey breast 1 tomato, sliced	3 x boiled eggs 2 Wraps 1/3 Avocado Don’t swap but add spinach Don’t swap Don’t swap but add cucumber, carrot, beetroot and capsicum

Dinner Recipe Example: Tuna Pasta

Ingredients – Serves 4	What to Swap to
300g dried fusilli pasta 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil 4 spring onions (shallots), thinly sliced 40g pitted  kalamata olives, 400g punnet tomato 1 tbs red wine vinegar 2 x 95g Tuna in Spring water 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, torn 40g baby rocket leaves	300g Slim Spaghetti/Kelp Noodles Don’t swap Don’t Swap 40g Salt reduce kalamatas Don’t Swap 1 tbs apple cider vinegar 2 x 95g Tuna in Olive Oil Don’t Swap Don’t swap, add spinach, tomato, mushroom , pine nuts and reduced fat feta

Snack Recipe Example

Ingredients – Serves 12	What to Swap to
2 cups self-raising flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 cup caster sugar 1/3 cup all-bran cereal 125g light margarine 1 cup buttermilk 2 eggs, lightly beaten 3/4 cup frozen raspberries, thawed	1 cup of wholemeal self-raising flour 1 cup of buckwheat flour Don’t swap 1 tsp Stevia 1/3 cup Psyllium 100g coconut butter 1 cup A2 light/ almond milk Don’t swap Don’t swap

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