Let's get HEALTHIFIED!
Transform your next meal from bad to good, or from good to better. This month in our AEF blueprint, we will teach you how to healthify a summertime classic, the BBQ burger. Plus how “liking”our Facebook page will help inspire you to stick to the healthy lifestyle changes you have made.
Barbequed burgers have always been a summer favourite. In a HEALTHIFIED burger the changes are simple but make a drastic difference to the calorie and nutrient value.
The first major change is in the meat. Use extra lean ground beef or ground turkey. Benefits to eating beef are: Beef is high in iron and Vitamin B12 and is a good source of protein, which is good for muscle and bone building. Benefits to eating turkey are: It is a good source of protein, high in B-complex vitamins to promote healthy blood circulation. Watch out when you by any meat you need to look at the nutritional information on the package. Turkey and beef both have a lot of calories and fat at the low grades, just because it says turkey does not mean it is lean. When making a patty from scratch think of the flavours you want to come out in your burger. Use anything from freshly minced garlic, finely chopped mushrooms and onions, hot sauce, Worcestershire, parsley, goat cheese and eggs. To bind the burgers together use a combination of whole grain bread crumbs and rolled oats.
~Instead of a white bun have a whole grain one.
~Use an avocado to replace mayo, fresh tomatoes instead of ketchup, whole grain mustard instead of yellow mustard, and low sodium pickles instead of relish. As for the bbq sauce, if you must have it on your burger use it sparsely as a little goes a long way.
~Pack your burger full baby greens and spinach instead of iceberg lettuce.
The difference between a Healthified burger and a Burger King burger is in the numbers. A Healthified burger is stocked full of
essential vitamins and minerals and oozes with flavour. The Burger King Whopper is packed with calories, sodium, fat and sugar!
Barbequed burgers have always been a summer favourite. In a HEALTHIFIED burger the changes are simple but make a drastic difference to the calorie and nutrient value.
The first major change is in the meat. Use extra lean ground beef or ground turkey. Benefits to eating beef are: Beef is high in iron and Vitamin B12 and is a good source of protein, which is good for muscle and bone building. Benefits to eating turkey are: It is a good source of protein, high in B-complex vitamins to promote healthy blood circulation. Watch out when you by any meat you need to look at the nutritional information on the package. Turkey and beef both have a lot of calories and fat at the low grades, just because it says turkey does not mean it is lean. When making a patty from scratch think of the flavours you want to come out in your burger. Use anything from freshly minced garlic, finely chopped mushrooms and onions, hot sauce, Worcestershire, parsley, goat cheese and eggs. To bind the burgers together use a combination of whole grain bread crumbs and rolled oats.
~Instead of a white bun have a whole grain one.
~Use an avocado to replace mayo, fresh tomatoes instead of ketchup, whole grain mustard instead of yellow mustard, and low sodium pickles instead of relish. As for the bbq sauce, if you must have it on your burger use it sparsely as a little goes a long way.
~Pack your burger full baby greens and spinach instead of iceberg lettuce.
The difference between a Healthified burger and a Burger King burger is in the numbers. A Healthified burger is stocked full of
essential vitamins and minerals and oozes with flavour. The Burger King Whopper is packed with calories, sodium, fat and sugar!
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