The low fat smoothie recipes I have listed below are really very quick to prepare – not more than 5 to 10 minutes – and do not require preliminary preparation of the ingredients (like boiling or else).

Here are a few low fat smoothie recipes you can easily prepare in no more than 5 minutes:

Acai-Blueberry Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 min

Servings: 4

Ingredients:
100 g frozen acai pulp (6 tbsp)
2 cups frozen blueberries
1 banana
1/2 cup low fat milk
1 1/2 cups low-fat yogurt (vanilla)
2 tbsp of honey
1 cup ice

Preparation:
Cut banana in half and blend all ingredients, except ice, in a blender until smooth. Add ice; blend again until the drink gets perfectly smooth. Serve immediately.

Pomegranate Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 min

Servings: 2

Ingredients:
1 cup pomegranate juice
1 carton fat free yogurt (vanilla)
2 tbsp of honey
1/2 cup ice

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients, except ice, in a blender until smooth. Add ice; blend again until the drink gets frothy. Serve immediately.

Low fat smoothie recipes you can easily prepare in 10 minutes:

The Perfect Wake-Up Smoothie

Prep. Time: 10 min

Servings: 8

Ingredients:
1 banana
1/2 cup blackberries (fresh)
1 cup apple cinder (chilled)
1 carton low fat yogurt
1 cup fat free milk
2 tbsp of honey
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

Preparation:
Slice banana and blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Serve immediately.

Mango-Ginger Smoothie

Calories: 142 per 2000 calorie diet. Saturated fat 1 gram. The smoothie does NOT contain Monounsaturated and Polyunsaturated fats.

Prep. Time: 10 min

Servings: 4

Ingredients:
2 cups mango chunks (Preferably frozen for thicker icy drink, but if you can’t find any, seed and peel and cut 2 fresh mangos into chunks and freeze for about 2 hours)
1 cup fresh pineapple cut into cubes
1 carton low fat yogurt
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1/4 cup nonfat dry milk powder (optional)
2 tbsp of honey
1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth.

From all recipes I’ve read, and 3 different I’ve cooked myself, I find this cabbage soup diet recipe to be the best one:

Cabbage Soup diet best recipe ingredients:

• 1 medium head cabbage
• 6 medium onions
• 4 sticks of green onions
• 3 carrots
• 2 red peppers
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• ½ bunch of celery
• ½ bunch of parsley

Season salt and black pepper to taste

If you like you can use vegetable or beef or chicken bouillon cubes to spice it up a little more (but honestly I prefer it without the meat bouillon cubes)

How to cook:

Cut all vegetables into small pieces. In a large pot poor enough cold water to cover them and bring to boil. Fast boil for 10 minutes and then reduce to simmer for about 15 minutes or until all vegetable are tender. Turn off heat, season the cabbage soup with the spices to your taste and remove it from the plate.

Tip:

Cool the soup and keep it in the fridge.
You can also freeze it if you make bigger quantity. This way you don’t need to cook every week – just defreeze soup for not more than 2-3 days, because once unfrozen it can’t last as long in the fridge as a freshly cooked cabbage soup.

2 egg whites (or ¼ cup egg substitute)
¼ cup of skim milk
½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of sweetener (like Splenda)
1 ripe banana
4 slices light whole-wheat bread
4 tablespoons of reduced-calorie maple syrup (it’s optional)

Preparation
Use blender to mix together the egg whites, milk, cinnamon, vanilla, sweetener, and banana for about 1 minute, until smooth. Pour the mixture into a shallow bowl.

Cooking
Lightly coat a nonstick skillet with cooking spray and place it over medium heat. Dip the bread slices into the mixture and place them into the skillet. Cook until each side becomes golden brown (about 1 to 2 minutes per side).

Serving
You can top the toasts with 2 tablespoons of reduced-calorie maple syrup if you like and serve immediately.

It all takes about 15 minutes. I wish you bon appetite!

The lower carb alternatives you gonna use should have identical taste as the original high carb foods. You will be very nicely surprised to find out that many of them actually taste better than the original high carb dishes.

Sandwich

You can substitute Chinese and Napa cabbage for bread. This way you eliminate 29 grams of carbs per sandwich.

Use one leaf of the cabbage and roll it up with your favorite filling and if you like you can dip it in low-fat mayo. Delicious.

Pizza

You can substitute Portobello mushroom for pizza crust. This way you eliminate 20 grams of carbs per pizza slice.

Cut the mushroom gills out and place the mushroom on an oiled cookie sheet and bake until it dries out a little. Add you favorite pizza topping (my favorite is tomato sauce, ham and sweet corn). Mmm, I got hungry

Pancakes

You can substitute Oatmeal and cottage cheese for pancake mix. This way you eliminate 45 grams of carbs per pancake.

Mix 2 eggs, ¼ cup of the cottage cheese and ½ cup of the oatmeal. Add vanilla, nutmeg or cinnamon
(you know the benefits of cinnamon). Make the mixture smooth and cook it like you do with the regular pancakes. I am going to try this immediately.

1. Is cinnamon bad for the liver and the kidneys?

Coumarin is a chemical compound contained in Cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum – aka Chinese Cinnamon) and is known to cause liver and kidney damage in high concentrations. True Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum – aka Ceylon Cinnamon) has negligible amounts of Coumarin, so no worries here folks as long as you use the True Cinnamon.

Coumarin toxicity is 275 mg/kg, which is relatively low compared to related chemical compounds. We humans are able to largely metabolize Coumarin to a compound that is of lower toxicity.

Also pay attention to the key phrase here “high concentrations” – half teaspoon a day is not high concentration. So if you’ve been using a half teaspoon of Cassia to prepare the drink, instead of the Ceylon Cinnamon, you don’t have to be worried, just try to find true cinnamon.

2. How long should I take it?

Important notice: You should not over use the honey and cinnamon drink, meaning you can’t use it forever.
If you reach your weight goal within a couple of weeks or a month – that’s fantastic. If you need more time, just use it for about 2 to 4 months tops.

3. Should the honey be added after half an hour (when the water cools)?

I know that in my original post I wrote to make a paste from the honey and the cinnamon powder and then to poor the hot water in the cup. However, I should agree with that the honey is better to be added after the water and cinnamon mix cools (in about half an hour).

Cinnamon Oranges

This is a very simple dessert that can be prepared easily any time of the year. Takes only 10 minutes to prepare and serve. As you might be guessing oranges taste best in the winter when they are at their peak, hence the cinnamon orange dessert will have better flavor if prepared in the winter. Lucky you, cause you can try it immediately and it will taste best.

Ingredients:
4 servings

4 navel oranges
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon sugar or (1-2) tablespoons honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation:

Peel the oranges and remove the white pith from them. Use sharp knife to cut each orange into 5 or 6 slices and arrange them on 4 plates. Mix the orange and lemon juices, add the sugar and cinnamon and whisk. Poor 1 spoon over each orange slice pile and you are ready to serve.

Variation:

Instead of 1 tablespoon of sugar you can use (1-2) tablespoons of honey.

Nutrition Facts:

This dessert is low in calories, sodium, and cholesterol with 86 calories, 2 mg sodium, no cholesterol, no fat, 1 g protein, 3 g fiber, and 258 mg potassium per serving.
Rich in Vitamin C – you get 150% of you daily value. Good for the heart.

Bon Appetit!

Every time I was looking for cinnamon recipes I turned out that almost all cinnamon recipe also needed honey. Strange isn’t it, but having in mind the great weight loss mixture they make, it is not so surprising after all.

Well, this is exactly what happened the last time I was searching for cinnamon recipes, in particularly for cinnamon baked apples:

I found a few very similar recipes all with the same ingredients but with different preparation methods. Anyway, I just though finally I found a recipe with cinnamon and no honey, when all of a sudden it turned out that the last recipe needed a honey topping just before serving. It sounded so tempting and easy that I not only had great time preparing them, but also had an amazing experience eating them

The great news for all dieting people is that you get a nutrition bonus with every baked apple you eat  20% of your average daily fiber intake. This makes this delicious side dish a great source of fibers. But that’s not all – you also get the cinnamon and honey mixture (not as a drink this time). Well, the amounts of honey and cinnamon here are way lower than the amounts in the drink, but yet they work the same way, after all the cinnamon, honey and apple are all healthy, right

Here is the cinnamon honey apple recipe:

Ingredients
4 servings

4 apples (large red ones would be great)
4 tablespoons brown sugar
Ground cinnamon for sprinkle
Water – small amount

Preparation

Preheat your oven to 350F ~ 180C.

Wash the apples and cut a hole in top of each apple (remove the core with a knife or an apple corer and leave the bottom intact). Clean out the hole and fill each one with 1 tbsp of brown sugar.

Transfer the apples to a baking dish and sprinkle the cinnamon on top of each apple. Poor small amount of water in the baking dish – this will keep apples from drying up during the baking process. Do not cover the top of the pan.

Bake for 30 minutes or until apples get soft.

Serving

Remove from oven. Let them cool for a while and then drop a teaspoon of honey on top of each apple just before serving. Enjoy!

Variation

You can use wine instead of water. Cover the pan with foil and bake for 1 hour.

My opinion

I think one hour for covered with foil pan is too much time, but after all I haven’t tried this one. 30 minutes in non-covered pan were just enough for my cinnamon baked apples to get soft and ready to eat.

And what is your opinion? Are you willing to try this recipe?

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5 & 1 diet meal plan

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The “lean and green” meal includes lean meat and salad (or vegetables). The vegetables you can eat if you don’t want the salad are 1 to 1 1/2 cups of any low-starch vegetables such as asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, zucchini, or tomatoes.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 head cabbage (chopped)
• 6 large onions (chopped)
• 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes (chopped)
• 2 green peppers (chopped)
• 3 carrots (chopped)
• 1 bunch of celery
• 10 oz. of mushrooms (thick sliced)
• beef or chicken bouillon
• 12 cups of water
• salt, pepper, parsley

Cooking

Sauté the onions in a pot with cooking spray; add the green peppers, cabbage, carrots and mushrooms.

Add the bouillon cubes and about 12 cups of water (if you don’t use bouillon cubes, season with parsley, salt and pepper to taste), cover the pot and simmer for at least two hours.

The Cabbage Soup Diet Plan

The good news is that for 7 days you eat as much soup as you like whenever you feel hungry, in order to keep you away from tasty snacks. You must not snack forbidden foods. Yes, the diet is strict – there is a specific menu for each day, as well as some foods and drinks that are not allowed.

No alcohol or fizzy drinks, not even the diet ones!

Day 1 – eat as much soup as you like + all kind of fruits, except bananas; drink tea and coffee without sugar

Day 2 – eat as much soup as you like + raw or stewed veggies and one baked potato with butter; exclude dried beans and peas

Day 3 – eat as much soup as you like + fruits and vegetables, exclude bananas and potatoes

Day 4 – eat as much soup as you like + 8 bananas; drink as much skim milk as you want

Day 5 – eat as much soup as you like + 10-20 oz of beef* and up to 6 fresh tomatoes; drink lots of water

Day 6 – eat as much soup as you like + beef* and vegetable salads; exclude potatoes

Day 7 – eat as much soup as you like + brown rice, vegetables, and fruit juices with no sugar; no potatoes or any diet drinks

* You may substitute grilled chicken or fish for the beef.

Two small tips for the diet

First – the Cabbage Soup Diet is recommended for adults only!

Second – you should only follow this diet for one week at a time!

You should go back to your normal eating for at least two weeks before start the diet again. That is because the Cabbage Soup Diet is very low in carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals – and you can’t eat this way for longer than a week.

As you can see from my post title the cinnamon weight loss effect is combined with honey in a delicious mixture, which recipe I am just about to tell you:

Ingredients

• half teaspoon of cinnamon powder
• 1 teaspoon of honey
• 1 cup of boiling water

Preparation

Mix the cinnamon and honey in the cup and make a paste. Add the boiling water and cover the cup for half an hour. Stir the mixture water and filter it. Wait until it cools enough for drinking and it’s ready.

“Serving” – I couldn’t think of a better word

Take one half of the drink before breakfast and the other half after dinner, before going to bed.

Weight loss success stories

People who have tried this amazing weight loss drink say that they have lost about 3 kg (6-7 lbs) for 1 week.

I know it sounds too good and easy to be true, but I do believe it really works. I will try it myself in the next couple of weeks, actually as soon as I supply myself with the necessary ingredients – cinnamon and honey. For now I got only the water

I promise to share my weight loss success story as a comment to this post.

Important Update

Due to the great interest in this topic and the numerous comments and emails I receive every day about how exactly to prepare and use the drink, I decided to write an update post. Here it is:

Does Honey and Cinnamon Drink Have Any Possible Side Effects

And I also would like to share with you one of the last comments (thanks to Michelle), so that anybody can read it. It pretty much sums up everything you need to know about the honey and cinnamon drink:

Just want to let you know I have been doing a lot of research of many sites. They say Not to add the honey while the liquid is hot. This will kill the effects of the honey.
Mix 1/2 tsp cinnamon with 8oz of boiling water and let it cool for half an hour, then add the 1 tsp of honey. Stir well and drink 4 of the 8oz first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and the rest on an empty stomach before bed.
They also recommend pure raw unprocessed or uncooked honey. Again the heating process will kill the honey benefits.

Thanks Michelle!

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