Showing posts with label heart healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heart healthy. Show all posts

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Recipe: My Oat-Parmesan Baked Chicken Is Healthy, Quick, and So Easy to Make

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This is a heart-healthy chicken main dish that has a tasty protein and fiber coating.



The holidays are closing in.  With all shopping and not to mention partying ahead, you are going to want to try this fabulous chicken main dish.  My Oat-Parmesan Baked Chicken is quick, easy, and healthy. This recipe will keep you on track when rushing and time for overindulging on Christmas cookies gets the best of your willpower. The coating keeps the chicken moist by locking in natural juices while that mixture of cheese, oats, and sweet basil add something spectacular.

If you are watching your salt intake or cholesterol, you can make this recipe healthier by forgoing the salt and substituting egg whites or egg substitute for the two eggs that you will need for dipping your chicken before hitting the oat-cheese coating mixture.

My Oat-Parmesan Baked Chicken

2 cups of quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon of dry basil leaves
3/4 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of black pepper
2 large eggs
6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
olive oil just to drizzle 


Preheat your oven first to 350-degrees because throwing this dish together won’t take you long.

Place the oats, cheese, basil, salt, and pepper in a mixing bowl and combine.  

Next, dip the chicken in the eggs, which you have beaten.

Take the moistened chicken and dunk into your coating mixture.  

If you have more egg or coating left, then repeat the dip and dunk process on a few pieces until you finish using.

Be sure to well grease a baking pan about 13 x 9 x 2-inch before arranging your chicken pieces.  Drizzle just a little olive oil over each piece before you send it to the oven.

Keep uncovered and then bake at that 350-degree temperature for about 30-45 minutes, depending on how your oven is regulated.

ENJOY!

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Follow Your Heart Vegan Food Products Review and Giveaway!--October 17, 2011

**Disclaimer:  This post has been compensated through a free product (s) or monetary payment.  Opinions are solely mine. All links are "no-follow" links.**
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Follow Your Heart Vegan Food Products

Anyone dealing with food allergies knows how hard it is to eat normally.  You either can give up the restricted foods from your diet or turn to replacements, which often can be safe to eat but lack the same flavors.  However, Follow Your Heart sent me some products for this review and giveaway that were so delicious they can fool you into thinking what you were eating was not the real thing!

Their Vegan Gourmet Cream Cheese had the same creamy texture of the regular dairy version with incredible similar taste.  I could have cooked something with this, but this cream cheese was so yummy that the family and I gobbled it up on sandwiches immediately before I had a chance.

The next thing that we tried was the High Omega Vegan Ranch Salad Dressing on our salads.  I dare anyone to tell me that this was any different in flavor than a leading brand of regular full fat ranch dressing only Follow Your Heart's version is healthier with Omega-3 fatty acid-rich from hemp and flaxseed oils.

Mayonnaise is typically not the healthiest thing to eat every day with all the fats.  Of course, you can try to still eat it with the low-fat and the no-fat substitutes readily available at the grocery store.  At the same time, those substitutions can have a void in flavor--that is until you taste Follow Your Heart Soy Free Vegenaise.  This is a fantastic egg free, gluten free, soy free spread that can fool you into believing you were eating mayonnaise.  We spread some on our sandwiches and were impressed how excellent this product really was.

The Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella was equally wonderful.  I sliced some of this gluten free, soy-based cheese for our sandwiches and loved the flavor.  It was a softer texture, a great mozzarella imitator that also cut nicely and vanished soon upon arrival.

Forty years ago in Canoga Park, California, four friends followed their dream and started a small business with the Follow Your Heart Market and Restaurant.  Their revolutionary idea and quality products soon took off.  As a result, the company keeps expanding with new vegetarian products and natural foods manufactured in a solar-powered plant because of their belief and dedication in improving the environment as well as healthier food alternatives!

I honestly recommend these Follow Your Heart products and would love to try more of their fine products soon.  Seriously,  you will continue to enjoy all the excellent products in their line without even realizing that they were substitutes!  

You can locate a store near you or shop online, but do yourself a favor and try the delicious difference of their products for yourself.

*Disclaimer:  This is my own honest opinion.  No money was exchanged.  All I received were free products to facilitate this review.*

Thanks to Follow Your Heart,  two lucky Nuts 4 Stuff readers in the United States or Canada wins a "Vegan Made Easy" Kit ($20-$25 value)!  The United States winner's kit includes: Soy-Free Vegenaise, Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella, Vegan Gourmet Cream Cheese, High Omega Vegan Ranch, and a Follow Your Heart Spatula.   The Canadian prize will be slightly different and includes"  Soy-Free Vegenaise, Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella, Vegan Gourmet Monterey Jack, and a Follow Your Heart Spatula.

Both Are Mandatory to Enter:

1. You must follow me on Google Friends Connect before any of your entries will count.  If you already follow, then tell me the name you follow me by with your email (if not in your profile) in a comment.

2. Go to Follow Your Heart and tell me what other product you would also love to try or something you learned about this company in a comment.

Extra Entries:

Add @Nuts4Stuff to Your Twitter and tell me so in your comment with your Twitter id--for 2 extra entries (leave two separate comments)

Tweet #Win #VeganFoodProducts  #Giveaway @FYHProducts via @Nuts4Stuff http://t.co/JWQNgsDX  (can be done daily)--1 extra entry per day in another comment

"Like" Follow Your Heart on Facebook--for 2 extra entries to leave in two separate comments

Do Follow Your Heart on Twitter--for 2 extra entries to leave in two separate comments

Share Follow Your Heart on your Facebook Wall--5 extra entries to leave in five separate comments (show me proof) 

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List this giveaway on any giveaway site just leave a link to this post wherever you share it--3 extra entries (leave three separate comments and tell me where in each comment)

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Enter another Nuts 4 Stuff giveaway (enter as many as you want, however, only 1 extra entry will count) and tell me which one in a comment--1 extra entry

Leave a separate comment for each entry.  Be sure you include your email address inside your comment so I can contact you if you win.  This giveaway is only open to residents of the United States and Canada only.  Do follow the rules because I check entries.   Be alert that if you attempt to enter using multiple identities will be grounds for disqualification. 

This giveaway ends October 17, 2011 at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time. The winner will need to respond to my email with name and shipping address within 48-hours or another winner will be picked.