Turkey, Egg & Sweet Peppers Burritos & Grilled Cinnamon Pears - 30 days of Healthy Eating with the Velata Raclette

Happy Father's Day! 

In a nutshell I use my Velata Raclette almost every single day. It allow us to eat the healthiest we've ever eaten (with the fastest clean-up) so this is a post within a 30-day series on healthy eating Velata Raclette recipes and activity. Enjoy! 

Day 1: Lemon Garlic Chicken and Seared Veggies  (Dinner)

Day 2: Roasted, Beet, Pecan and Cranberry Salad (Lunch)

Day 3: Greek Pork Slouvaki, Greek Salad, Tzatki, Pita & Hummus (Dinner)
Day 4: Turkey, Egg & Sweet Peppers Burritos & Grilled Cinnamon Pears (Breakfast):

Today is a celebration of all of the Fathers in our lives so this morning I made breakfast for my hubby with my boys, Cooper and Spencer. We wanted something healthy but yummy too! Hubby loves breakfast burritos so we improvised for a healthy version:

Clean-up time: 34 seconds

Recipe:

Jennie-O's Turkey Breakfast Sausage sliced

1/2 yellow sweet pepper

1/2 jarred and fire roasted red sweet pepper

Scrambled eggs

1 Sliced Pear sprinkled with cinnamon

4 wheat tortillas warmed on the Raclette

Yield: This recipe feeds 2 adults, 2 kiddos with plenty of turkey leftovers.

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Purchase your Velata Raclette Grill online at www.kande.velata.us. And now through June 15, 2004 (that's TODAY) you can purchase it in a Bundle and save big - plus I'll set-it up as a 'party' so that you can also receive $16 in free product and 2 50%-off items if you'd like them. Contact me or purchase online here.

Roasted Beet, Pecan and Cranberry Salad - 30 days of Healthy Eating with the Velata Raclette

In a nutshell I use my Velata Raclette almost every single day. It allow us to eat the healthiest we've ever eaten (with the fastest clean-up) so this is a post within a 30-day series on healthy eating Velata Raclette recipes and activity. Enjoy! 

Day 1: Lemon Garlic Chicken and Seared Veggies  (Dinner)

Day 2: Roasted, Beet, Pecan and Cranberry Salad (Lunch):

I'd never had beets until last summer when my MIL roasted them for a family picnic - they quickly became one of my favorite vegetables. For lunch beets and roasted pecans sounded yum so I simply opened up a can of beets and tossed them on the grill for about 10 minutes along with a few fresh pecans. Normally I would have drizzled a bit of olive oil but with the Velata Raclette's non-stick surface you just don't need it so instead I sprayed a light coat of Pam and saved the calories.  

As a working mom I make lunch for myself and my 2 kids and I just can't eat the same things they can eat. This is another huge selling point of the Velata Raclette for me - I only have to clean one grill surface rather than 2+ pans which leads to my favorite feature - less than 1 minute clean-up time EVERY TIME!  

To finish up I threw everything in the bowl including some chopped romaine, the beets, pecans, feta cheese, dried cranberries and a drizzling of balsamic vinegar. For dessert we had a big bowl of blueberries. 

The Velata Raclette also comes with 8 trays that slide underneath the grill surface but especially at lunch I don't need them but I don't need to remove them - they can just stay right in place.

Clean-up time: 23 seconds

Mom's Lunch Recipe:

1 can of beets (sliced or cut)

A handful of fresh pecans

1/2 a handful of dried cranberries

1/2 a handful of feta cheese

Drizzling of balsamic vinegar

1/2 a stalk of cut romain lettuce

Large handful of blueberries

1 strawberry

The Kid's Lunch:

3 turkey hotdogs

2 carrots 

Blueberries

Yield: This recipe fed 1 adults and 2 kiddos

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Fitness: I completed Week 6 day 1 of my 10K trainer (I was able to skip a week) with a distance of 2.75 miles. And I'm also sticking to my routine of drinking 90 ounces of water a day. 

Okay, so this isn't me but trust me when I say that my legs look exactly like this ;)

Purchase your Velata Raclette Grill online at www.kande.velata.us. And now through June 15, 2004 you can purchase it in a Bundle and save big - plus I'll set-it up as a 'party' so that you can also receive $16 in free product and 2 50%-off items if you'd like them. Contact me or purchase online here. 

Lemon Garlic Chicken and Seared Veggies - 30 days of Healthy Eating with the Velata Raclette

So, even as a Velata consultant I didn't jump on purchasing the Velata Raclette right away. Mostly, because I already had a sleu of other appliances that I never used (I'm not much of a cook) and didn't want to spend the money on another item just to collect dust. Boy was I wrong! 

My clients were literally raving about the Raclette so I finally ordered when we moved to Texas about 4 months ago... and I've used it almost every. single. day since then! It's by far the best kitchen purchase I've ever made! 

And it's the healthiest we've ever eaten (with the fastest clean-up) so I thought I'd do a series of 30 days of recipes and ideas for your family's healthy eating. Plus I'll also be posting my daily activity to get ready for the Scentsy Family Reunion (our national convention) 5K in July! Here's to the first of the next 30 days! 

Day 1: Lemon Garlic Chicken and Seared Veggies 

I love vegetables - even the less popular ones like brussel sprouts. And my favorite way to eat them is pan-seared but I've always had to use oil or butter to keep the veggies from sticking. The Velata Raclette has a non-stick surface that grills them to perfection without the unnecessary fat - just spray a little Pam and you're ready to go. 

The Velata Raclette comes with two grill tops - the one picture here has a smooth and ridged side - I like my meat and asparagus to have those fancy grill lines and my other veggies to be evenly seared.

I simply rubbed the chicken tenderloins in the Lemon Garlic Artisan Rub and grilled those to yummy perfection alongside the veggies.

The Velata Raclette also comes with 8 trays that slide underneath the grill surface. These are perfect for sides or Velata's ooey gooey cheese... which might be necessary when coaxing the kids to eat those brussel sprouts!  

Clean-up time: 48 seconds

Recipe:

1 green bell pepper

1 yellow bell pepper

1 orange bell pepper

1 anaheim pepper

6 baby portabello mushrooms sliced

10 cherry tomatoes sliced

1 bundle of asparagus

20 brussel sprouts sliced

Velata Cheddar Cheese

5-10 chicken tenderloins rubbed with Velata Lemon Garlic Artisan Rub

Yield: This recipe fed 3 adults and 2 kiddos

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Fitness: I completed Week 5 day 1 of my 10K trainer with a distance of 2.43 miles.

Okay, so this isn't me but trust me when I say that my legs look exactly like this ;)

Purchase your Velata Raclette Grill online at www.kande.velata.us. And now through June 15, 2004 you can purchase it in a Bundle and save big - plus I'll set-it up as a 'party' so that you can also receive $16 in free product and 2 50%-off items if you'd like them. Contact me or purchase online here.