Friday's Food

This Friday's Food is a fantastic, colorful and healthy recipe: tuna with pineapple salsa and apple-craisin salad. This recipe is fancy enough for a dinner party but easy enough to make on a weeknight. Best of all you'll reach all of your fruit and veggie serving needs for the day!


Servings: 4

Tuna
Ingredients
2 large tuna steaks (you can cut these in half to create 4 portions- tuna can be expensive so try to buy it on sale!)
sesame seeds
1 pineapple
4-5 plum tomatoes
red onion
cilantro
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1/2 lime
1/2 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

1. Season the tuna steaks with sesame seeds and place on the grill. Cook 3-4 minutes per side (for rarer tuna cook less, for more well done cook longer).
2. Chop the tomatoes into small pieces and place in a bowl.
3. Cut up pineapple into small chunks and place into bowl with tomatoes.
4. Add in chopped red onion, chopped cilantro, garlic, lime juice and olive oil. Stir to combine and place in refrigerator to cool.

Salad
Ingredients
Package of mixed greens
1 apple (any kind will work!), diced into cubes
1/2 cup of dried cranberries
1/2 cup of shredded carrots
low-fat feta
Dressing: 1 teaspoon olive oil and 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar

1. Combine the veggies and fruit in a salad bowl.
2. Top with the feta cheese.
3. For the dressing whisk the olive oil and vinegar together until combined.

ENJOY!

Friday's Food

This Friday's Food is a great recipe for staying healthy and also enjoying a favorite food of pretty much everyone: PIZZA! This recipe is loaded up on veggies and contains lower fat versions of some of the ingredients. By using flatbread or pitas you will make individual serving sizes, thereby controlling your portions. To make FitBritt's healthy pizza follow the recipe below.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flatbread or Pita
Low-Fat Marinara Sauce
Fresh or Dried Herbs such as Basil, Oregano or Red Pepper Flakes
Garlic or Garlic Powder
Veggies Such As: Onions, Peppers, Mushrooms, Eggplant, Spinach
Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees Farenheit.
2. Take a flatbread and spread a thing layer of marinara sauce on it.
3. Add herbs and garlic if using.
4. Spread veggies on the pizza.
5. Top with cheese.
6. Bake for 10 minutes.

Enjoy!

Friday's Food

Preparing your own food is a great way to keep costs down and to monitor the amount of calories and fat in the food. Still, it can be difficult to give up favorites like pizza, buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks. Good news! You can make healthier versions of these normally fried and fattening foods. Chef Rocco DiSpirito (from Dancing With the Stars & Biggest Loser) has published a book called "Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories." The book offers a healthier version of popular comfort foods including some that you would never think they could possibly be made healthy like New England Clam Chowder, Pad Thai and Caesar Salad. Best of all, having this cookbook at your fingertips means your less likely to go out to dinner looking for a comfort food fix! Now that's frugal.

The book is available on Amazon.com (you can also preview the book and some of the recipes) for $12.87.