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!!

Pumpkin Spice LatteBy Kevin PetrizioHere is another requested recipe. The Pumpkin Spice Latte! This is a great drink on a cold Autumn day. Made with real pumpkin and fresh spices. It takes about 10 minutes to put together and you can make it ahead and reheat it if you like.

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!

Spaghetti Squash in Garlic ButterBy Kevin PetrizioThis is a simple recipe that pairs spaghetti squash with a nice steak. Throw in a half cup of potato and you have a great, delicious meal. The trick to this recipe is to have the spaghetti squash made in advance. Grill your favorite steak however you like it and this becomes a 20 minute middle of the week meal. I wanted to find another use for spaghetti squash. Some people are afraid to cook it because they don’t know how they will use it all. It is such a healthy vegetable that there must be more ways to cook it.

Grilled Tilapia with Spinach and mashed Butternut SquashBy Kevin PetrizioTilapia is a fish that can be prepared many different ways. Today I am grilling it on my electric indoor grill. Served with greens like spinach and mashed butternut squash, the saltiness of the fish balances well with the sweetness of the squash and the bitterness of the greens.