Smart Food Choices & Why

Smart Food Choices & Why

SUNFLOWER SEED BUTTER - As your Portland personal trainer you will learn from these 3 foods such as the first one sunflower seed butter. So if you are tired of peanut butter and almond butter, sunflower seed butter is a delicious alternative that can help keep post hunger in check. Use it as a dip for veggies or to spread it on toast of a baked sweet potato. You also can add a spoonful of sunflower seed butter to oatmeal to give your breakfast some staying power.

SWEET POTATO PANCAKE - Sweet potatoes will provide more fiber, to promote more stable, slow burning energy plus way more antioxidant vitamins A and C to boost post-workout recovery. For an easy meal, blend up the flesh of one cooked sweet potato with 2 eggs and half cup liquid egg whites and, in a greased skillet, form into pancakes and cook until browned on the outside.

SPINACH - Spinach has at least twice as much calcium, iron, niacin and vitamins A, B6 and C as iceberg lettuce. It's also a better source of protein, magnesium, folate, phosphorus and potassium than lettuce... Potassium, in particular, is a mineral lacking in many diets choosing spinach over iceberg lettuce can help close the deficit.

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