Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Healthy Turkey Clubs with Mini Strawberry Parfaits

This is an original recipe and was inspired by my need to get healthier!

Alright blog fans, as you know yesterday was April 9th, but what you may not know is that day marked exactly TWO months until my wedding day.  I had already told Shannon that starting on April 9th we were going to eat healthier and both try to get into our best shape before our nuptials.  Well due to having SOOO much bad food left in our house, we actually started today, April 10th.

Plus yesterday was free scoop day at Ben & Jerry's and you know that we couldn't miss that!

Today I didn't have such a healthy breakfast and that was mainly due to not having a lot of healthy food in the house, but I made up for it with a very healthy lunch.  I love pita bread or flatbread whatever you want to call it.  I like that it has a lot of whole grains but still tastes good to be exact.  At the grocery store this morning I discovered a new favorite in the pita/flatbread world.  Flat-out's Foldit Everything Artisan flatbread.  OMG was it delicious!  And OMG was it healthy...weighing in at only 100 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and 19 carbs for an ENTIRE flatbread!

Then of course, I gotta have dessert after lunch, it's just a fact of life.  Well I'm trying to get used to yogurt, especially greek yogurt, so why not have a parfait. Well we all need a little chocolate in our day too, right?  I think you'll like my version of a strawberry parfait. 

Below you will find my version of the turkey club, minus the lettuce.

Ingredients:

1 Flat-out Foldit Everything flatbread
1 slice Oscar Mayer Smoked Turkey Breast (or any other type of turkey lunch meat)
1/8 cup shredded 2% milk cheese
1/2 Tbsp real bacon pieces
Spray butter (like Parkay)
Salt & Pepper
2-4 slices of roma tomato

Instructions:

Spray both sides of the flatbread a couple of times with the spray butter.  Place the flatbread in a toster oven set to toast for around 3 minutes or until slightly toasted.  Remove the slightly toasted flatbread from the oven and place the turkey cheese and bacon on top.  Place the flatbread back in the toaster oven and toast for another 3-4 minutes until cheese is melted.  Remove flatbread and add the sliced tomato, salt and pepper, then fold in half.  

I served my sandwich we a could more tomato slices, some celery stalks and about a Tbsp of light blue cheese dressing.






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 Now onto the mini strawberry parfait!

Ingredients:
1/4 cup fat-free Greek Vanilla yogurt
1/4 sliced fresh strawberries
1 packet splenda no calorie sweetner (you can omit this but I wanted it to be a little more sweeter)
1 bar (half of package) Nature Valley's Oats & Dark Chocolate granola bars, crumbled.
Small 8 oz container, like a coffee mug

Instructions:

Start by placing half of the sliced strawberries in the bottom of your cup.  Then sprinkle 1/3 of the splenda packet on top.  Add half of the Greek yogurt.  Sprinkle with half of the crumbled granola.  Repeat layer of sliced strawberries, splenda and then top with remaining granola.  Sprinkle remaining 1/3 of the packet of splenda on the very top for extra sweetness, if you'd want it, discard.  Enjoy!  






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