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Hi everyone! I often have baked chicken breeast with steamed brown rice and veggies for dinner and I also like to lightly coat the chicken with some shake and bake mix for some added flavour and texture. I was just wondering if this was "authorized" or if it was adding unnecessary extra...

I was on BFL for about 1.5 years and got pretty darn healthy. Fell off the plan when I quit tobacco and put some of the weight back on. Before, I always ate the same stuff from week to week. I always planned out my meals ahead of time, made a bunch of food on one day and froze it all for the rest of...

What I'm going to say here about cooking for healthy heart requires no secret ingredients. It simply means recipes of lower saturated fat, cholesterol, and total fat, and also reduceding slat "Sodium". An extra plus here, is that these recipes will have fewer calories and that leads...

Hi all; I love pizza, and you know pizza is a distructive food "full of calories". But I've tried a low calories pizza recipe and it was great, delicious and filling. Here you can read the recipe and try it ;) http://hubpages.com/_1fmid2lwhgk2v/hub/Diet-pizza

Maybe it's more of a Southern thing, but my family, and many of my friends, often initiate conversations with "What are you having for supper?" It's just a nice conversation starter, and a great way to figure out what YOU might want for supper (or dinner) yourself. So, I dedicate this...

I am a recent college graduate (aka poor haha) and my mom froze me a bunch of chili to take back to my apartment. Its tomato sauce, onion, spices, lean ground beef and beans. Would this be ok to have as a meal? If so how much should I have, about 1 cup or less? Thanks!

Now that I am not eating much in the way of processed foods it seems as though I may not be getting enough sodium or perhaps other electrolytes. How much sodium, potassium, and other electrolytes should I be consuming on a daily basis. I have been drinking lots of water lately. Does this increase...

Hi. I'm starting week 3 and I'm really getting overwhelmed with the cooking (prep to cleanup) involved. When shopping, are there any frozen meals or cans of soup that fit with BFL? I don't know what to look for on the nutrition label (carbs, sugars, calories, fat -- how do you figure protein...

Hey everyone, Hopefully someone can help me out, i'm about to start BFL and i'm just a bit unsure of the portion sizes. Obviously things like cottage cheese, yoghurt and liquids like egg whites are easy enough to measure in a cup, however, i'm somewhat confused about the portion sizes...