Can Nutritious Ever Be Delicious? You May Be Surprised.

For the last 50 years we’ve come to believe that if something is nutritious it’s not delicious. Like medicine, it must be good for you if it tastes bad. On so many levels this is a myth!

Actual nutritious eating can be even more appetizing and more satisfying than low-quality conventional choices. Say goodbye to deprivation and hello to delicious! Modern science and smart substitutions enable us to make nutritious, completely delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners AND desserts! Yes, even comfort food.

Nobody Binges on Broccoli

When a friend has a bad day we bake cookies. Sugar has a way of making us feel better. Part of that is hormonal, and part is brain chemistry. Since sugar delivers readily available energy to the brain, it feels good. But excess sugar in the blood stream is highly toxic. The body’s survival mechanism is to pull the sugar out of the blood stream and store it as fat. So while it feels good to eat, it has negative effects on the body. Besides that, it can be addictive.

The good news is we have smarter sweet options. We can make tasty-sweet treats using natural and non-destructive whole foods that truly satisfy our sweet tooth by using low calorie sweeteners like stevia and satisfying healthy fats, fiber, and protein.

Can You Make Doughnuts Healthy?

Let’s take a look at the breakdown of a traditional donut versus a nutritious and delicious donut. On the one hand, a traditional frosted chocolate donut is loaded with low-quality ingredients: 20 grams of sugar and a heaping dose of flour, both of which inflame your brain, clog up your hormones, and cause fat gain and diabetes. No good! On the other hand, a smarter protein donut has quality ingredients and only 2 grams of sugar, plus 13 grams of protein. It’s yummy, satisfying, health boosting and body fat burning!

Now let’s dig into smarter sweets with a recipe for Protein Donuts. It starts with a nutritious protein powder and coconut flour base rather than traditional flour. It has one third the carbs of its starchy counterpart plus 24 grams of protein. Mix protein powder, coconut flour, stevia and baking powder together. Mix in almond milk and egg. Pour mixture into greased donut-shaped baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes.

And let’s not forget the icing. Mix together protein powder, stevia, yogurt and salt for icing. This tasty, low-sugar icing alternative wins hands down against its sugar-dense, biology breaking adversary. It has barely 2 grams of sugar versus 19 in just two tablespoons! When the donuts are golden brown, remove from oven and drizzle on icing. Now enjoy your sweet with no fear of any negative effects!

Getting Fitter While Eating Your Dessert First

In fact such SANE sweet treats can even be eaten for dinner! Just because it’s sweet doesn’t mean it’s bad for you. In fact, as we’ve seen here, SMARTER sweets can be dramatically better for us than most starchy dinners. So as long as you do like your mother told you and “finish your vegetables,” there’s no reason dinner can’t be a smarter sweet every once and a while.

When nutritious is delicious, slim is simple and healthy makes you happy.