The Recipes

Welcome to Mind, Body & Soul fitness Recipes! All the recipes you find are on your plan and over the years loved by many! The recipes are uncomplicated and family-friendly. There are endless ways to cook your food. If you have a recipe that you would like to try, text it to Lesia at 215-804-7975.

Why be creative with your food? I have found over the years that 80% of clients do not like to eat the same thing. They like variety and different tastes and textures. So, recipes assist you with getting out of that feeling. Recipes are also easy for families. If there is only time to cook one meal, this is a great way to feed the family and stay losing weight. For some of our clients, they prepare a weeks’ worth of dinners and freeze for the week.

Meal planning is essential for success. Why? Because if you do not know where you are going, you will never arrive. Meal planning is your road map to success. You must understand how you are eating for the day or the week you are in. I have found that a sense of peace washes over the clients who plan their meals. Before long, this becomes a habit. Meal planning also sets parameters. It gives you clear expectations and it provides you routine. Routine is something most people need.

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Meal planning also saves you time and money. It is also less stressful. Planning will keep you calm and avoid feeling out of control. Most clients do not do well with unknow or last-minute decisions. It raises their stress levels and they feel out of control, so that leads to eating off-plan, the standard response to handling stress. That is why you are here! To deal with this take time! Plan your eating day and week! You can do it!!

The benefits of spending 15 minutes planning your week are: feeling acommplished, feeling fantastic, feeling in control and loving weight loss !

Give some recipes a try!!

Fish in Crazy WaterBy Kevin PetrizioThis dish in Italian is "Pesce all’Acqua Pazza" which translates to "Fish in Crazy Water". You really can't make this stuff up! The fish and the cherry tomatoes are key here. Get the freshest that you can. If you have a farmers market nearby and the tomatoes are in season, get them. You will be amazed at the results. As far as the fish is concerned, I used cod, but any white fish will work. Grouper, halibut, sole, sea bass and flounder are just a few examples. Use your favorite or try something new. But get the freshest that you can find.

Shrimp Salad PitaBy Kevin PetrizioThe Po boy sandwich is truly a Louisiana classic. The lobster roll is a New England mainstay. This dish in neither. What I tried to do here is take the best of each and make something that works on our food plans. This is a delicious meal that is easy to make and tastes great. I showed it in the picture on top of the pita, but it is meant to be stuffed into it. The spice mix is meant to give off the well known scent of boiled shrimp that we all know. There are a few variations that you can try with this recipe. The obvious one would be lobster instead of the shrimp. Chopped, cooked oysters or clams are more options. Even cooked cod or flounder would work. Have fun and let me know which is your favorite.

Butter Basted FishBy Kevin PetrizioHave you seen the price of beef these days? And chicken can be hard to find! But fish is available and still pretty reasonably priced. This butter basted recipe is simple, but full of flavor. And you can make it with just about any flaky, white fish. Cod is usually my go to fish, but I used haddock to change things up this time. Pollock, flounder, and even sea bass also are great choices. This recipe belongs in the less is more category. A simple seasoning of lemon and thyme is all you need to enhance the flavor of this kind of fish. You can even chill the fish and serve it over a salad with our air fryer croutons.

Tuna Poke BoatBy Kevin PetrizioI have eaten raw seafood most of my life. Clams on the half-shell, oysters, sushi, etc. Even the grilled tuna steak I made last year is mostly raw. But I had never heard of Poke before a client asked about it. Poke is a Hawaiian dish with diced raw fish and veggies. A soy sauce based dressing is used to flavor the fish and veggies. But this is one of those dishes that you can make your own by changing out the types of fish and veggies. Even the dressing is adaptable. Have fun with this one. This dish is best made right before you are going to eat it. The fresher the better. It does not last long in the fridge. Any leftovers should be eaten no longer than the next day.

Tuna PattyBy Kevin PetrizioI admit it! I love a cold tuna wrap. I mash up 1 oz. of avocado instead of mayo, slice up some cucumbers and roll it up in a tortilla and I have a pretty simple lunch or dinner. But even I get bored with the same old wrap from time to time. So I wanted to do something different with tuna that could be done on a weeknight. This fits the bill perfectly. Easy and quick to make, you can have a complete dinner ready in less than 15 minutes.

Shrimp CreoleBy Kevin PetrizioThe flavors of New Orleans are some of the most distinct in the entire world. When we hear curry, we think India. garlic, we think Italy. And Creole, we think Southern Louisiana. There are so many different foods that are unique to that region. And many of them start with these two things. The trinity: onion, celery and bell pepper, and Creole seasoning. These are the base flavors for hundreds of recipes.

Grilled Tuna SteakBy Kevin PetrizioWhen cooking a tuna steak it helps to think of it as a beef steak. Cook it over high heat, go easy on the seasoning, and cook it rare! Some people will not be comfortable eating fish that is basically raw in the middle. This is understandable. If you are one of them, just let the fish cook for another minute or two on each side until you see the grey band rise completely on the side. Let it rest for 10 minutes and it should be fully cooked. Temp at 145° to be sure. The texture will be somewhat different, but still delicious. Note: Be aware that indoor grilling can cause a fair amount of smoke. If cooking indoors, you may want to open your windows for ventilation. This is another terrific fish dish that can be mixed and matched with a variety of different veggies and starches. Also, feel free to try some of the other dressings with it as well. Grilling fish is a fast and easy way of cooking and can be done right on your outdoor barbecue. And if you have never had a tuna steak, be aware that it tastes nothing like canned tuna fish. A tuna steak is much more subtle and sweet.

SalmonBy Kevin PetrizioI’ve often thought of salmon as a difficult fish to cook. And being that it’s not one of my favorites, I have not really spent a lot of time cooking with it. I recently saw a recipe on a cooking show that I thought was interesting and was pretty easy to adapt to the MBS food plan. I was amazed at the results! I can say now that this will be one of my favorite fish dishes to make. And salmon is considered to be incredibly healthy as well. They served it with a refrigerator pickle like the one I made last week, so I did the same. Just search for "Pickle" and you will find the recipe. If you like salmon, give this one a try!

Shrimp with Tomato and FennelBy Kevin PetrizioThis is a request from Cass, one of our clients. She saw a recipe for cherry tomatoes and shrimp and asked it I could make it work on plan. I used regular tomatoes but also include the cherry tomatoes as an option. The fennel adds a layer of flavor that really makes the dish work. Please try it either way, or both! You can vary the spiciness level by adding more or less of the hot pepper flakes. Have fun with this one, it's delicious! Thanks Cass! Fennel is a licorice flavored veggie that adds great flavor to salads as well as cooked dishes. I'm using the bulb in this dish, but the fronds are edible as well. They can be added to everything from soups to salads for an extra hit of flavor.

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