Nutrition & Recipes for Eating Healthy | Quick & Easy Meal Prep Recipes

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We all know that we’re supposed to be eating healthy & exercising, avoiding sugars, staying active.. but it’s hard. The problem is that most recipes for eating healthy are incredibly complicated, expensive, and full of weird, hard to find, fad-like ingredients.

It doesn’t have to be that way. In the last few years, I’ve really taken to cooking. I’m discovering the benefits of having full control over what I put into my body and there’s no possible way I could turn back at this point.

I follow, what I generously call 80/20 Paleo. That basically means that 80% of the time, I follow Paleo guidelines (no sugar to processed carbs, etc.) 100%. The other 20? Well.. sometimes organic food can be expensive so I settle for the “generic”, and yes, on occasion I eat ice cream (bring out the torches..) BUT, that 80% keeps me pretty well in control.

Since really taking a step towards formulating my own recipes for eating healthy, I haven’t gained or lost 1lb.. BUT, I traded ~10lbs of fat, for 10lbs of muscle.. so I’ll take it.

Hopefully these quick (and often 1 pot/pan) meals can help you out in a pinch, I know they’ve helped me.

Paleo Diet for Runners & Triathletes

July 14, 2019August 16, 2019Josh

We’ve all heard it: “Tomorrow’s race day, got to carbo-load!” *devours 9 bowls of pasta*. We’ve all heard it so much, in fact, that when someone has the audacity to recommend something like a paleo diet for runners & triathletes, it’s generally laughed at. Why? Well, let’s start with the basics: What is the paleo […]

The Top 5 Nutrition FAQs From First Time Ironman Athletes

June 25, 2019September 5, 2019Josh

Training for an Ironman can be a pretty overwhelming activity. Not only are you looking to master swimming, biking and running(!), you need to learn about nutrition, fueling, equipment, and about one million other things. The good news is, if you’re feeling overwhelmed when signing up for and/or training for your first Ironman, you’re not alone! […]

Healthy Dinner Recipes: Spicy Chipotle Shrimp Bowl

Simple, easy, and beyond tasty. This spicy chipotle shrimp bowl recipe is perfect for heat loving seafood fans who are crunched for time. Easily done in under an hour (and potentially done in under 30 minutes if you’re efficient :), this is another easy recipe to add to the weekly rotation. My wife and I […]

Traditional Greek Salad Recipe (Horiatiki Salad)

After having just completed a two week honeymoon in Greece, it’s safe to say that my wife & I are addicted Greek food and found a dire need for a true, traditional Greek salad recipe (also known as Horiatiki salad). We ate these things everywhere. We started our trip in Athens (where we had one […]

Healthy Dinner Recipes: Crispy Salmon Without Smelling Up The House

If made any other way, cooking salmon without smelling up the house can be nearly impossible. It’s always either overcooked, raw, the house smells like fish for 3 days, nothing ever seems to go right. The craziest part? You watch the food network and people talk about how their perfectly cooked crispy salmon is the […]

Healthy Breakfast Recipes: Simple Oven Baked Eggs

Breakfast is one of those things than can get boring, quickly. Scrambled eggs and bacon, omelet, toast, bagel, blah blah. Why not do something different (and healthy!)? Baked eggs are definitely not amongst the normal breakfast options, and yes, it takes a little bit longer than throwing together “the usual”, but it’s still simple, and […]

Healthy Dinner Recipes: Tomato Braised Chicken

This recipe actually came to be when we were trying to think of some healthy alternatives to chicken parm. We wanted the same hearty type of meal, but without the breading and pasta that went along with the traditional recipe. Obviously, it’s morphed a little bit from there, but the result is all the same.