A Low-salt chicken recipe —Tomato & basil chicken with zoodles

With the holiday season in full swing, it’s a sure bet you’ll be cooking more for the various people who will be showing up on your doorstep this time of year. So I’ve been busy clipping recipes that are low-salt, low-sugar and low-fat, are quick to make, and sound pretty tasty too to share with you.

This post is about a recipe for something called tomato & basil chicken with zoodles.

I saw this in a magazine but it’s also on the Foster Farms (a poultry brand) site.

Ingredients you’ll need are:

4	chicken breasts seasoned with salt and pepper
2 tbsps	olive oil, divided
1 tsp	chopped fresh garlic
½ cup	balsamic vinegar
2 cups	cherry or golden tomatoes, quartered
2 tbsps	fresh basil, chopped
•	salt and pepper [leave out the salt]
¾ lb	zucchini, cut into spirals

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December 15, 2017 0

Cookbook reviews have arrived on the No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal

Regulars to our blog may read a recent cookbook review we featured for a book called The Organic Heart. Expect to see more cookbook reviews here in coming weeks and months. We’re planning to add a cookbook section to our recipe page to further help you find low-salt, low-fat, low-sugar recipes.

We'll soon be reviewing this cookbook from the American Diabetes Association. — We’ll soon be reviewing this cookbook from the American Diabetes Association.

Already on the way for us to review is THE SUPER CARB DIET: Shed Pounds, Build Strength, Eat Real Food by Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper and The Complete Month of Meals Collection from the American Diabetic Association.

We also already have a copy of The Dirty Vegan Cookbook which I’ve asked noted vegetarian food blogger Jenny Frank [ok, she’s my daughter too] to review for us. Check out Jenny’s food blog, Maplehood Kitchen, for vegetarian and vegan recipes. Continue reading “Cookbook reviews have arrived on the No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal” →

December 13, 2017 0

A Low-Salt Christmas side dish — Balsamic Onion and Thyme Carrots

Baby carrots are a great side to have around for holiday entertaining. Raw they can be put out as a snack or appetizer. Cooking them opens a world of flavors you can add. This site has lots of baby carrot recipes you can pick through for your Christmas side-dish choices.

And I just came across a new carrot recipe from Cooking Light magazine, balsamic onion and thyme carrots. The recipe calls for cutting up regular carrots, but I think baby carrots would work great with this one too and be easier to prepare. Monitor the cooking time, they might need a bit longer to be done than carrot slices would. Continue reading “A Low-Salt Christmas side dish — Balsamic Onion and Thyme Carrots” →

December 12, 2017 0

Consumer Reports takes a great look at healthier eating

Consumer Reports is a magazine I look at whenever making a major purchase such as a car or large appliance. It’s reviews are the bible of product reviews, in my opinion. So I was intrigued to see its November issue carrying a cover story about healthy eating.

What’s in the issue is as good as other work Consumer Reports does. If you cans till find one to buy, buy it and refer to it as you cook or eat out. If you can;t find a physical copy, go to the website, it appears you can read at least some of the stories there without being a member of Consumer Reports. Continue reading “Consumer Reports takes a great look at healthier eating” →

December 9, 2017 0

No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal has record November, thank you!!!

Traffic to our site reached an all-time monthly high in November, driven by people searching for a salt-free stuffing mix and other salt-free Thanksgiving offerings. Site views for the month reached nearly 7,000, 6,914 to be exact, blowing past our old monthly record of 6012 in January 2015.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! Continue reading “No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal has record November, thank you!!!” →

December 8, 2017 0

Christmas Cookbook review — The Organic Heart

Heart disease has been called the silent killer, but it’s also the sudden, often unexpected killer. You can be feeling perfectly fine one moment and have a heart attack or stroke the next without any warning, or at least without any warning you recognize. Believe me, I know, having had two stents implanted in my clogged arteries in the past five years.

So any cookbook that starts with a tale of heart disease is sure to get my attention and The Organic Heart is just such a book. The author’s husband was a seemingly healthy young man when heart failure struck. She determined to aid in his recovery by creating new gluten-free, dairy free, “clean food” recipes to cook for them both are the result is this cookbook and its website.

If you know anyone who is worried about gluten and/or dairy, this would be worth a look for you, it could be a great Christmas gift. Continue reading “Christmas Cookbook review — The Organic Heart” →

December 7, 2017 1

More low-salt, low-fat Thanksgiving side dishes

Turkey day is almost here and lots of you already have come to our site searching for low-salt turkeys and low-salt stuffing recipes. We also have recipes for low-salt side dishes, but went looking for more and found some that sound tasty in a big Thanksgiving roundup done by Bon Appetit magazine.

Roasted carrots with red onions, fennel and mint is the first. I’m not usually a giant mint fan, but here I might make an exception…or I might just leave out the mint along with leaving out the added salt recommended here to make this a low-salt recipe.

Here’s what you’ll need:

2 pounds small carrots (about 2 bunches), peeled, cut into 3-inch pieces
2 large red onions, each cut through root end into 8 wedges
1 fennel bulb, cut into ½-inch wedges
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper [leave out the salt]
2 tablespoons raw sunflower seeds
1 teaspoon coriander seeds, coarsely chopped
½ teaspoon Aleppo pepper or a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
½ teaspoon Hungarian hot paprika
2 tablespoons Sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons torn mint leaves

I normally link to the original page but some readers have complained about that, so here’s the instructions as well: Continue reading “More low-salt, low-fat Thanksgiving side dishes” →

November 21, 2017 1

A record year for the No Salt, No Fat, No Sugar Journal!!!

This website started to give people on restricted diets alternatives to eating nothing but bland, boring food. People told us back in 2012 that no one would care about salt, fat and sugar in their food. But those naysayers were wrong, apparently.

With a month and a half left in 2017, we just hit an all-time annual high for views on our site! As of this morning, we had 57,355 views in 2017, blowing past the 56,994 views we had in 2015, our previous high. Those views this year came from 30,213 visitors to the site, another record compared with the previous high of 28,596 we had in 2015.

We consistently rank at or near the top in search results for no salt, no fat and no sugar foods and recipes. Indeed, our recipe page is the most viewed place on our site with 12,513 views as of Nov. 14.

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, searches for our low-salt side dishes and our discussion on how to find low-salt turkeys will likely draw even more views before the big turkey day arrives.

Most of our viewers are in the United States but we have visitors from all over the world, which is also most gratifying.

Medical issues this year have kept me from posting as often as I have in the past, but expect that to change in the coming year. I’ll be back, finding and trying recipes that are tasty yet also low-salt, low-fat and low-sugar for you.

John

November 14, 2017 0

Know what a paillard is? Me neither, but this one sounds tasty

Chicken has become my go-to meat choice now that I’ve had two stents put in during the past five years. And I’m constantly searching for more ways to cook it, as you can see on my recipe page. I recently saw this recipe for chicken paillard and I thought, what is a paillard and is it tasty?

Bon Appetit magazine seems to think it is, and for the record, a paillard is simply a piece of meat pounded flat, usually between two pieces of wax paper. Continue reading “Know what a paillard is? Me neither, but this one sounds tasty” →

September 5, 2017 0

Still time to grill? Try these fruits and veggies for something different and fun

Labor Day Weekend is the traditional end for the outdoor grilling season, at least in northern climes such as Chicago where I live. But there will still be days when it’s warm enough to go out and fire up your grill, or grills (I have four!). Here’s a new take on grilling, ever think about fruits and veggies on the grill?

Cooking Light magazine has, apparently, in this piece on 10 fruits and veggies to grill (everything is a list these days, so they had to find 10 I’m sure).

Some of these, like watermelon, onions, eggplant and pineapple, I’ve heard of grilling before, but some, like apples and peaches really surprised me.

I’m guessing the key here is to find items with sugar content the flavor of which will be brought out by grilling.

Take a look, it’s a video, so you have to endure a commercial, but after that it moves fairly quickly.

And keep those grills fired up into fall, I know people who do their Thanksgiving turkeys outdoors in cold climates, that is hardcore grilling.

John

September 4, 2017 0

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