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.

Meal Planning success

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!!

Egg Drop SoupBy Kevin PetrizioHere is a quick and easy soup for the cold weather. I paired it with my Egg Roll and made a full meal out of it.

Manhattan Clam ChowderBy Kevin PetrizioThis soup is tasty and healthy all at once. You could even replace the clams with cooked beans and you would have an amazing soup. Add some hot sauce to make it even more interesting if you like.

Tomato SoupBy Kevin PetrizioTomato soup is not one of my go to meals. Truth is I probably haven't had it since I was a kid. But I know what it should taste like and what the consistency should be. After cooking this recipe I added the entire mixture into our high power blender. I thought this will really make my soup smooth! I then proceeded to hit the pulse button which blew the cap off the bender and sent hot tomato soup all over my kitchen! Took me an hour just to clean up the mess! So the best advise I can give you is this: Let the soup cool before blending, use a low power blender set on LOW, and blend 1/2 of the soup at a time. This was a request from a client. It is very simple to make and reminds us of our childhood. Who didn't eat a can of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich as a child? I can't help with the grilled cheese sandwich, but the soup is pretty good!

Chicken and Spinach Soup with LemonBy Kevin PetrizioI'm a soup lover from way back. Even as a child I would crack open a can of soup, pop it in the microwave and in 5 minutes lunch was ready. As I got older I realized that these cans were loaded with sodium. Sometimes over 1000mg of sodium! I soon learned that soup was one of the easiest meals to make myself. This one is no different. A few veggies, some chicken, and some rice and before you know it, SOUPS ON! This one is great on those cold days.

Butternut and Turkey SoupBy Kevin PetrizioA shout-out to my niece who made butternut squash soup on Thanksgiving as an appetizer. It was so good I new I had to adapt it to our Program. You can make it on the stove top if you want, just go low and slow. But the slow cooker really shines with this recipe. Either way, you can use turkey or chicken, and leftovers are perfect for this meal. Just portion out your serving size of the protein, and add it to 1½ cups of the soup. Here is another easy to make meal that freezes well. You can make several serving worth and freeze each 1½ cup portion. When you need a quick meal, just defrost some frozen, cooked turkey or chicken and microwave the soup. This is great for those cold winter night dinners.

Squash and Chickpea SoupBy Kevin PetrizioThe cold weather is coming! There's frost on the pumpkins(almost)! It's time for some soup! This is a new recipe for me and I will say I enjoyed it. The bitter greens play well off of the sweet butternut squash. Feel free to try other winter squashes as well as kale or spinach. Soups and stews are my go to foods this time of year. One of the best things about them is they can be frozen and stored for later. There are days that I just don't feel like cooking, so I pop into the freezer and pull out a pre-made meal. Into the microwave and in no time I have a hot, delicious meal ready to eat. And this one is meatless!

Broccoli Soup With Chicken and RiceBy Kevin PetrizioWhen you need something to warm you to the bone, this soup fits the bill. Thick and hearty, tasty and healthy, you can't ask for much more than that! This is another great recipe to freeze.

Pea SoupBy Kevin PetrizioThick and hearty, this is a great cold weather meal. It freezes well and is simple to make.

Slow Cooker Beef Stew/SoupBy Kevin PetrizioThis recipe can be made as a stew or soup depending on how much water you use. Add 4 cups of water instead of the ½ cup and serve as a hearty beef soup if desired. This recipe will not have the thickness that most stews have because we are limiting the amount of starch. The tomato will give it a little “body”.

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