Slimming Recipes
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Better.TV talk with Christine Avanti about how to eat and snack right this summer to take the weight off and keep it off.
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Slimming Recipes
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Audra: The summer is right around the corner everybody is looking for the best
ways to trim calories and the waistline at the same time so celebrity
nutritionist and chef Christine Avanti is here and she’s going to show us
some summer slimming snacks that are really simple to prepare and they
taste great. Good to have you back Christine.
Christine: Thank you Audra.
Audra: And before we get to that we have to mention to you Christine is not only
a Celebrity Chef. You lost 30 pounds. We’re going to look at before a
photo of you. You lost 30 pounds like you said you left it and I kept it off
right?
Christine: That’s right.
Audra: Just been doing things like this like you’re showing other people how to
do.
Christine: Yea, eating meals that are high in flavor but are low in calories using good
ingredients that really make the food pop.
Audra: Okay and the meals that you have here today are all gluten-free and they
take about 10 minutes is that right?
Christine: Yes, yeah and its’ not that I’m all about everything gluten-free but gluten
free is a very hot new trend and a lot of my clients in Hollywood are
wanting to have me prepare meals and give the meal plans that are gluten
free. It kind of reduces bloating and people just feel better and lighter on a
gluten free plan.
Audra: Yeah. So if you’re not celebrity these re good for you too?
Christine: Yes.
Audra: Nobody wants to feel that way. Now the first meal that you’re going to
make over here is called Santorini Lemon Dip.
Christine: Yeah it’s called Santorini Lemon Dip.
Audra: Okay.
Christine: Really quick we’ve got a little bit of minced garlic and some cannellini
beans, cannellini beans are great because they’re high in fiber and you got
some protein for that’s going to help a stabilizing blood sugar. I’ve got
some fresh parsley you just want to do a little bit of parsley and then some
fresh oregano and oregano is great because it reduces the bad bacteria in
our GI tract.
Audra: Wow I didn’t know that, okay.
Christine: Who knew, this we got some lemon juice and some lemon zest. Don’t
forget the lemon zest and then we’ve got some feta cheese and I actually
made this a couple of weeks ago for Harry Winkler.
Audra: Really.
Christine: And his family and he loved it, he was like I love it can you do a less
lemon and his wife was like. I want more lemon.
Audra: There’s no cooking involved at all?
Christine: No you just pulse it really quick here blow fast, blow and what we have is
a gorgeous dip and then you just put cucumbers in there. Guess how many
calories?
Audra: How many?
Christine: 70 calories.
Audra: That’s it.
Christine: Easy. And on top of that I see here it has a lot of fiber vitamin C protein so
all around good for you. Great for stabilizing blood sugar, great for having
a bikini body.
Audra: I love it and now next we got the chips. Fire roasted salsa and skinny
chips.
Christine: Skinny chips it kind sounds like why kind of weird anyways I just
basically took tortilla white corn tortillas in the grocery store you cut it
into 8th pop it in the one about 400 degrees for about 12 to 15 minutes
depending on your oven and I sprayed it with a little bit of vegetable oil
spray that’s it. It’s like 100 of grams less of sodium in the home made
chips and salsa and then this is tomattillos we just roasted the tomatillos
some plum tomatoes some garlic and then is an Anaheim chili also called
a California chili. It can have a little heat.
Audra: I’m getting a little wilted here so.
Christine: And you know one thing is because you might have a hard time finding a
grocery store this is for the big long green chili.
Audra: Okay.
Christine: It’s not a jalapeno but it does have some heat so you just blend that in a
blender. It takes like 30 seconds and you’re done you have fresh
homemade chips and salsa.
Audra: Okay.
Christine: Calories are low, low in sodium, great for a barbecue or a party.
Audra: Now you’re going to test me on this one here because these are your fruit
kebabs and you’re going to show me how to make these last and always
before we go. They’re really good vitamin C, protein obviously.
Christine: These are really, really great obviously you’ve got some good
carbohydrates in here. I like people to pear it up with Greek yogurt this
recipe is in my book and the fresh mint is an amazing summer you know
just like refreshing taste so you just go mint, fruit, mint, fruit and your
skewer is done.
Audra: Christine thank you so much I’m going to keep going with this because
I’m determined to succeed.
Christine: Yes.
Audra: I promise I will. Thank you very much.
Christine: You will.
Audra: You guys want to see the recipe for the Santorini Lemon Feta Dip you can
go to our website bettertv.com click on the recipe button and if you want
to get other delicious and nutritious recipes you can also go to our website
and then click on the link.
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