Boost Your Wellness with a Healthy Cooking Show for Your Workplace!

[Jan Lewis]

Hi Everyone:I am brand new on this board, as well as a new Consultant. I just completed my first 30 days and got my first commission check!! (Yeah!!) I am really impressed by how friendly and helpful everyone is here!I am going to be doing a Healthy Cooking Show/Fundraiser for the office where I used to work. The company is a benefits consulting firm, and they just instituted a new "wellness" program for their employees, where they get points for certain healthy activities, such as joining a gym and taking stress management classes.I'm going to make the Satay Chicken Pasta Salad, and am preparing a hand out of quick and easy ways to cook healthier (using PC products, of course!). Has anyone else ever done anything like this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I just got an email asking if I have a special invitation I want them to send to the employees. Thanks, Jan

 

[KellyTheChef]

Congrats on your first 30 days!

I don't have any experience with what you are asking about, but good luck...hope you get a huge turnout!

 

[Trish in Texas]

I've used this one.

Trish in Texas
Independent Consultant

 

[Jenni]

Congrats on your fantastic start!!!

Call me extra healthy but I don't think that dish falls into the healthy category Just cuz it has some veggies. One serving is 10 WW points thats a lot of pts for one meal!!!!

Nutrients per serving: (about 1 1/2 cups): Calories 450, Total Fat 16 g, Saturated Fat 2 g, Cholesterol 60 mg, Carbohydrate 45 g, Protein 31 g, Sodium 750 mg, Fiber 3 g

 

[Jenni]

I've used this one.

Trish in Texas
Independent Consultant

I have never seen that sheet great tips!

 

[Jan Lewis]

Thanks Trish, some really great ideas!!

 

[leftymac]

Congrats on your fantastic start!!!

Call me extra healthy but I don't think that dish falls into the healthy category Just cuz it has some veggies. One serving is 10 WW points thats a lot of pts for one meal!!!!

Nutrients per serving: (about 1 1/2 cups): Calories 450, Total Fat 16 g, Saturated Fat 2 g, Cholesterol 60 mg, Carbohydrate 45 g, Protein 31 g, Sodium 750 mg, Fiber 3 g

I would tend to agree. It's not the unhealthiest thing, but there are much better dishes. The Microwave White Chicken Chili is light AND delicious!

 

[sklay723]

Another option is to use a recipe from the "It's Good For You" cookbook...they have some yummy ones in there! Just an idea...good luck with your effort for this, it sounds great!

 

[ChefBeckyD]

You can do a 30 Minute Chicken w/o the skin(there are directions for doing it that way) , and serve it with the Strawberry Spinach Salad. The dressing for the salad calls for just a couple Tbls. of oil - use olive oil, and you are getting in your omega-3 oils.:thumbup: People will love it! And you get to use the DCB - and tell them about all of the other great healthy meals you can make in the DCB.

Pork Tenderloin (the other white meat.)
Quick Chicken Fajitas
Quick Turkey Chili
Smashed Potato Soup...

...to name a few.

 

[babywings76]

Has anyone tried the Satay Chicken Pasta Salad with whole wheat pasta and natural peanut butter? How many WW points would the recipe be with those changes? Would it taste good that way?

 

[ChefBeckyD]

Has anyone tried the Satay Chicken Pasta Salad with whole wheat pasta and natural peanut butter? How many WW points would the recipe be with those changes? Would it taste good that way?

I would think that using the ww pasta would maybe lower the points by 1 pt...maybe 2, and the peanut butter wouldn't change it at all - same value for PB, no matter what kind it is.
This is the only way I've made it, since I only buy whole grain pasta, and organic PB.....so I think it tastes fine.
Just don't be deceived that it is a low calorie or low fat dish. That doesn't mean it isn't healthy though. We have come to equate lowfat/low calorie with healthy, and that just isn't always the truth. My biggest pet peeve with WW is that it encourages junk food, and unhealthy foods. All of the WW snacks are nothing but preservatives, artificial colors, and sugar substitutes. (or what I would call non-food.). And don't even get me started on non-fat "cheese"......:yuck:


Okay - That was probably too much - off my Nutritional soapbox now!

 

[Jenni]

I would think that using the ww pasta would maybe lower the points by 1 pt...maybe 2, and the peanut butter wouldn't change it at all - same value for PB, no matter what kind it is.
This is the only way I've made it, since I only buy whole grain pasta, and organic PB.....so I think it tastes fine.
Just don't be deceived that it is a low calorie or low fat dish. That doesn't mean it isn't healthy though. We have come to equate lowfat/low calorie with healthy, and that just isn't always the truth. My biggest pet peeve with WW is that it encourages junk food, and unhealthy foods. All of the WW snacks are nothing but preservatives, artificial colors, and sugar substitutes. (or what I would call non-food.). And don't even get me started on non-fat "cheese"......:yuck:


Okay - That was probably too much - off my Nutritional soapbox now!

You mean cardboard!!!