Category Archives: Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Primed Mariano Squash Spaghetti

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Mariano’s Primed Spaghetti Squash with shiitake mushrooms, semi-dried tomatoes, onion, garlic and Primed Centrifuged Organic VCO. So delicious, nutritious and filling. The great doctors of Iligan loved it.

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It was an inspired creation of ours Avril Mariano. We will give Super Chef Doi a little credit for putting the finishing touches to our creation.

Ingredients:

  • Squash, onions, garlic, semi-dried tomatoes in olive oil, shiitake mushrooms, Primed Organic Virgin Coconut Oil and shaved parmesan cheese (optional). Himalayan salt and pepper of course.

Mariano’s Primed Spaghetti Squash with semi-dried tomatoes and shiitake mushrooms. Amazing flavor in this dish. Also very nutritious and filling. Chef Doi from Iligan is a genius in the kitchen. It is worth traveling to Iligan just to eat at Mariano’s restaurant. ‪#‎grainsequalsugar‬‪#‎sugarequalsinflammation‬‪#‎inflammationleadstodisease‬‪#‎iligancity‬‪#‎primedforyourlife‬‪#‎justeatrealfood‬‪#‎marianosresteraunt‬‪#‎DoiMariano‬‪#‎AvrilMariano‬‪#‎supportrealfood‬

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Equipment: 
Avril Mariano has a beautiful vegetable spiralizer. I flexed my muscles and did the twirling. It is easy to use and clean. See the facebook page of Mariano Home-cooked Specialties.
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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Zudles with Roast Chicken and Vegetables

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Primed Roast chicken is a dish we enjoy weekly in our household. It is filling, nutritious and delicious. We usually roast 2 chickens at a time and then use the left overs for school lunch box items and then the bones for Primed Bone Broth.

After having the roast chicken for Saturday dinner I easily made Zudles with left overs for our poolside garden lunch on Sunday.

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes, Sauce Recipes, vegetarian dishes

Zudles, Broccoli & Spinach with Bagna Caude Sauce

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Zudles rock. Thanks to Via for the cool name. Zudles is a far cooler way than saying Zoodles.

You just need a knife to slices your zucchini into thin strips or use this kitchen helper to do the job easily and quickly.

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Ingredients:

A lot of onion, garlic and ginger (optional)

Zucchini made into zudles as shown above

Primed Organic Virgin Coconut Oil for initial frying of onion, garlic and ginger

Broccoli that was been lightly steamed (keep the stalks for Primed Gourmet Pizza)

Spinach (the more the merrier)

Bagna Caude Sauce (butter, olive oil, anchovies & grated garlic)

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The sauce is my favorite sauce recipe (and that of Pope Francis): Bagna Caude Sauce.

Here are the ingredients of the Bagna caude Sauce.

Bagna Caude Sauce ingredients

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Primed Vegetable Kinilaw Salad

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Primed Vegetarian Kinilaw Salad. A super healthy, delicious and versatile dish.

This dish is great as is. Or add Primed Guacamole (recipe to be posted on Friday), fresh avocado, quality fresh seafood or even canned sardines, salmon or tuna. Canned fish should never in heart attack and stroke inducing vegetable oil please. Just water or olive oil.

Ingredients

Vegetable Kinilaw Ingredients

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Primed Cabbage Carbonara

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Here’s a great Primed Cabbage Carbonara dish involving 2 of my favorites: Bacon and Coconut Milk. You can easily substitute the chicken for the bacon or go vegetarian by adding roasted squash/pumpkin.

Ingredients:

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1 large head of cabbage (take out the core)
lots of onions
lots of garlic (the more the merrier)
some green chilis
some red chilis (if you like extra spice in your life)
1/2 to full cup of coconut milk (depending upon how saucy you want your dish)
5 to 6 pieces of quality bacon (we buy ours from S&R)

Method:

1. Cut your cabbage into long strips. Dice your onions, garlic, green and red chilis.

2. Steam your cabbage until it is wilted but not too soft. Fry your pieces of bacon at the same time.

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Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

7 Days of Primed Quality Carbohydrates

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Primed Carbohydrates Recipes Summary:

The Primed Lifestyle allows you to do the following:

– Maintain constant blood sugar (and insulin) levels at an optimal range, as well as a consistently good mood.

– Decrease your inflammation, aches and pains, illnesses, potential for disease, stress levels and health issues.

– Increase your metabolism, digestive health, confidence, energy, mental clarity, brain power, skin quality, immune system, sleep quality and happiness.

Oh, you also get to eat real food with real flavors and get unreal health results.

1. GREAT CARB MONDAY – PRIMED COCONUT CREAM CABBAGE WITH MUSTARD AND CHILI

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Top 12 Ways to Enjoy Your Primed Home-Made Tomato Sauce

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Primed Home-made Tomato Sauce is an ideal staple to always have in your fridge and freezer. See here for some other great items to always have in your fridge, freezer and pantry.

Please see the simple recipe here and let me know other great ways you use your Primed Home-made Tomato Sauce.

Top 12 Ways to Enjoy Your Primed Home-Made Tomato Sauce

1. Add Malunggay to your Primed Home-made Tomato Sauce for extra nutrients to better fuel your mind and body.

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2. You can add your Primed Home-made Tomato Sauce into a bowl, add Chia Seeds and enjoy it as a cold soup. You can also blend/puree it into a warm or cold soup depending on the weather and your mood.

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breakfast, Carbohydrates, Egg dish, Lunch & Dinner Recipes

Top 11 Primed Food Recipes to Learn to Prepare for Healthier Living

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Cooking is fun. Yes it can be tiring, hot and you sometimes cut yourself, but IT IS FUN!

Cooking is also good exercise. In fact, you can exercise less and get fit simply by cooking and eating the right food. Primed food. My Primed Journey is proof of that.

Being in hospitality for 20 years, and having my own restaurant in Brisbane for 3 years, I learned to appreciate and love cooking. It means even more to me now as I know I am feeding my family well so they become healthier in body and mind.

It is never too late to learn/master a new skill and even if you don’t know how to boil, poach or scramble an egg you can learn. With our 500,000th visitor to soon visit Primed for your Life (from 140 different countries) I want to highlight our TOP 11 dishes learn to cook/prepare. They are not too hard, not too expensive and they TASTE awesome and have an AWESOME effect on your mind and body.

If you can master yourself you can master anything.

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Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

Great Carbohydrates Sunday – Broccoli and Cauliflower “Rice”

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I used love rice. Especially white and fluffy, it goes well with so many dishes. I had been eating rice my whole life, especially as a boy when I lived in Singapore and Hong Kong, and even for thefirst 13 years whilst living and working in Manila.

However, with my new Primed Lifestyle, rice (and all grains), are out of my meal plan so I want to find more nutrient dense alternatives.  Alternatives that do not spike my blood sugar too much and leave me more full and satisfied.

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Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

Great Carbohydrates Saturday – Sweet Potato Wedges

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Sweet Potato Fries are the bomb. They taste sensational, are good for you and go well with any dish. Especially bacon!

If you are carbohydrate intolerant due to having abused them in the past then Sweet Potatoes should not be a staple in your diet but a once in a while item. However, for a healthy person once a week is cool.

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Ingredients:

Sweet potatoes
Coconut oil
Salt
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