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Hi Zuzana,

Great recipe and as always you are looking great!
But looking at size of the bowl you are using made me wonder, how long does it takes to eat all that,if your portions is only small? And i guessing it’s not only thing you are eating all day is it?Even if you sharing it with Frederick it’s still seems like a lot..:)

Also how many portions of protein need to be consumed a day,do i need to eat protein,carbs,protein,carbs or combine it all in one meal six times a day?

Many thanks

This is a great salad! I like that you post recipes that are quick and easy to make but still nutritious. I love how you incorporate dried fruits in small portions into some of your recipes :)

I’m a huge fan of salsa and chips, but since the chips are very high on the glycemic index, as well as in sodium, I usually take whole wheat oil free/sugar free pitas, bake them and then use that as a replacement.

Here’s a really great recipe for mango pineapple salsa, perfect for those days where you feel like a sweet but still want to eat clean. It makes about 10-12 small servings.

1 mango peeled and diced
1/2 medium sized pineapple shaved and diced
2 tablespoons coconut water
1/3 cup chopped red pepper (banana peppers if you like it spicy are okay too)
1/4 cup chopped red onions
2 tablespoons lime juice
3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1/4 cup melted extra virgin coconut oil
1 tablespoon paprika

Blend together all ingredients, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour. Serve with baked pita chips or even use as a chutney for grilled chicken or fish! Hope you like it.

Kristina

Thanks for the recipe Zuzana, not really a salad type but you could make anything sound delicious.

Hi Kristina, thanks a lot for sharing your recipe :)

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Hey Zuzana,

I came across your videos on youtube and I really enjoyed them. You have some great addvice and yummy recipes. I’m sixteen years old and i’m very interested in keeping in shape. I had a question about the six meals a day. Do you recomend that I should be following this at my age? And if so, do you have any tips on how I can do this while i’m attending school?

Thank you!

Hi Hannah, the clean eating is good for everyone no matter how old you are. I don’t why you couldn’t eat clean while you are at school. You can always pack some healthy snacks with you. Fruit, low fat yogurts, healthy sandwiches that you can prepare at home, salads that you can also prepare at home; there are so many options.

Hi! Great site!

But why should one choose low fat yogurt? Is it the same with all dairy products? I like to eat feta cheese for it’s protein and fat, is the fat in milk or feta cheese bad or good? If it’s bad, WHY is it bad?

So… so you just biol the pasta and throw it all in a bowl?

Thx

Hi Zuzana,

first of all, thanks for the nice pasta salad – it’s a nice change to normal pasta salads but can be also enjoyed warm.
Well, just had a look at your diet & nutrition section, where you calculated how many calories you burn in a day and how much you could eat distributed over your 6 meals/day.
It seems that the salad portion you have in this video (with max. 8 pieces of actual pasta maybe and the rest is basically vegies/fruit) is ways below the 360 kcal that you calculated for your uptake per meal (if having 6 per day) to keep your weight.
Even if you ate only that little portion of salad 6 times a day (no smaller, no bigger meals) and exercise as much as you do, you’d definitely loose weight. Maybe I do have a high metabolism rate but by just roughly following your recommendations (what worked for you does not have to work for everybody else – I know) I’d be getting skinnier in no time.
I do really like your websites with all the tips and you are the best proof that it pays off to exercise often and eat clean but (since I am also not the first person commenting on that) it seems a bit unrealistic to me that this little portion is all you eat for your meal.
Please do not get me wrong & keep on posting your yummy recipes and great exercises!
Best,
Sylvie

Thanks for the recipe, Zuzana! I’ve heard wonders about agave nectar to sweeten your foods. It is a natural sweetener that has a lower glycemic index than honey (27 vs. 83!) and apparently, varioius health benefits including boosting your immunity, increasing your satiety and lowering your appetite (due to the present inulin), lowering your cholesterol, helping you absorb some nutrients more efficiently, etc (all of this according to sheknows.com, but there’s plenty of other websites that can provide more info). Anyway, thought you might find this useful as a healthy alternative to flavor your tasty salads :)

Best.

i totally ENJOYED your previous recipe when i tried it! added more lime juice for the taste.
this one seems awesome too!
Cant wait to try it out((:
another recipe added to my healthy meals notebook.
i’d just like to know, if i dont take pasta often, are there any other good substitutes?
i intend to try it with brown/red rice?

also i’m wondering, are wholegrain cereals healthy beside oats as well?
i usually bag them to take along with me to school as it is easier to eat it on its own whereas oats need to be mixed with fruits&nuts and soymilk..

THANKS TRUCK LOADS Zuzana!
you really keep me motivated with proper eating and great exercises that really just keeps me going and feeling more fit and energetic!
its something that i’ve been having an ongoing interest and stuck with for the longest time.
exercise isnt something i forced myself to do to lose fats but now its a way to relieve stress and enjoy myself at the same time to look good!
the change in my diet has also really given me more energy and crave for less sweet stuffs.
i still have a cheat day but i’m trying to reduce the no. of times gradually.
keep updating yeah!! :D full support of this website you’ve started and progressed all this way!

Hello Zuzana,

Since you are so kind to share your recipes with us, I must leave one of my favourite healthy recipes for you too. It’s a special breakfast recipe that packs a high fiber, protein punch, no baking powder or flour required:

Wholesome Protein Pancakes

3 large eggs (organic free-run are best)
1 cup oats
1 cup mixture of kamut or spelt flakes, wheat germ or wheat bran
enough low-fat milk to make the mixture pourable, about 1/4 cup
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp cinnamon
dash of cardamom
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 mashed ripe banana
1 tbsp melted natural peanut butter
1 tsp honey

Preheat large non-stick pan to med/low heat. Spray pan with oil/Pam. Beat eggs with milk, spices, vanilla, honey, peanut butter & mashed banana. Combine and mix with all other ingredients in medium sized bowl. Spoon pancake batter into pan in approx. 2 tbsp portions. Heat until golden brown, flip and repeat. Serve with either organic maple syrup or top with plain/vanilla yogurt and berry sauce for extra calcium and antioxidants. Leftovers can be refrigerated or frozen. The sky is the limit with these wholesome, heart pancakes but they will always leave you satisfied!

Berry sauce

1 cup blueberries/raspberries/strawberries
2 tsp stevia (natural calorie-free sweetener)

Cook until natural juices reduce to half. Sweeten, stir, let cool and pour on top of pancakes.

Thanks again – your recipes involving a new exotic spice or seasoning each time are excellent!

Hi Zuzana,

I just made this receipe this morning and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it thank you so much for all your receipes this one is awesome!

Hola Zuzana!Hope you’re doing great!

Yummy.. this recipe gave me hunger!. Here in Guatemala is hard to get wholewheat pasta types, mostly you find only Wholewheat Spaghetti. What’s your opinion on “cous-Cous”? is it to precessed? I don’t know but I haven’t seen any wholewheat cous.cous or less processed. I love it.

One last question that I wanted to ask you,(I’am the guy that likes counting macronutrient grams in my meals) when should I measure or weight the meats? before cooking or when they are cooked?.. this is a question I haven’t found an especific asnwer so far, I do it after coocked but I have the feeling that’s not the way..

Bye..

Thanks for the recipe Zuzana! Gosh you seem so sweet and are quite beautiful, nice work! You give me motivation to start working out again but it is so hard when all I do is play this online game called Warcraft.

Anyhow I thought you might like this recipe for Seaweed and cucumber salad.

1/2 oz dried sea vegetable salad (soken brand is nice)
2 large cucumbers, peeled, seeded & diced
2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp tamari or soy sauce

Soak the dried sea veggies in about 2 quarts cold water for about 15 mins & drain. Peel, seed & chop cucumbers to a 1/2″ dice. Mix together all ingredients. Adjust lemon juice and tamari to taste. Can be eaten immediately, but it’s a little better served chilled.

I never liked Seaweed salad before I tried it this way now I love it lol :).

Brian

Hi Zuzana,

Looks like a great recipe, look forward to trying it. :) Are you using A WHOLE package of whole grain
pasta? Approx. how much pasta do we cook?

Thanks for your time.

-Wendy

This is so easy you car,t really call it cooking.You will need some lentils i use the brown one’s ,you cook lentils like you cook rice,so place the lentils in pan with water but add a chicken stock cube.The lentils take around 20mins to cook five mins before it is ready add chopped onion cook for the last five mins drain water off you can eat it cold or hot.

Hello!

This salad looks really nice and tasty! I will try it some time!

I would like to offer you a recipe I made for lunch today.

Ingredients:
1 piece of chicken breasts bon-fillet (about 30 grams, uncooked)
1/2 green pepper
1/4 red onion

1/2 handful of ice berg lettuce

For the marinate:
juice from 1/2 lemon
red pepper spice powder
1 tea spoon balsamic vinegar

Chop the ingredients (without the ice berg lettuce) and put them in the marinate. Mix well until the grill is heated. Put the chicken, peppers and onions on the grill without the marinate and serve on the chopped ice berg lettuce. (For me it makes 1 serving)

I am not sure if this is clean-eating recipe, but I really enjoyed it.

Hi Wendy, I cooked the whole package, but you don’t have to cook that much :) It’s up to you how much left overs you need.

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Hey Zuzana, great recipies, thank u for that. I also like your training program. I give my very best to keep up to your advices and eat healthily.
I think i am not the first girl that tells you, that you do have an amazing body. I would even say that it’s kind of a reference to what a woman should be like. I would love to see you flexing your amazing biceps and triceps. Your abs are well enough in focus of your vids.

Thanks for your support. You are a real inspiration!

Hey Zuzana, if you like tuna try it with tobasco sauce and chilli powder. Mix with a small amount of mayo and black pepper and you get a delicious flavour that also boosts your metabolism!!!

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Hi, Zuzana,
Just wanted to ask you, depending on what time a person got up in the morning, how late in the evening do you think it is OK to eat meals if I was following the “Clean Diet” and needed to fit in at least 6 meals within this time? I have heard that eating after a certain time in the evening is not ideal. Also, I’m interested in learning more about the Clean Diet, do you recommend any books that would help me out? Thanks for all the awesome posts, you are great!
Cheers,
Mike

This looks delicious – I only discovered your site today zuzana and I am hooked! Thank you so much for all of your hard work with the recipes/work outs/ tips etc, I cant wait to put them into practice. I love tuna, i always used to have it with mayonaise (EEK! INO) but i switched to mixing it with sweatcorn and viniger which is equally as tasty but without the unneccisary fat – keep doing what your doing, you’re a greart inspiration!

I tried your salad and love it. I tried dried rasberries, added some bacon chopped and some jalapenos. It tastes great and has a little zing fomr the jalapenos. I love the idea of using more tuna and some pasta to help lose weight, get in shape and enjoy eating. Love you website the fact you are into yoga and you insire me to return to my ideal weight, and conditioning like when I taught aerobics. Now that I am 50 I need to incorporate better diet, yoga, workouts and need to learn more from you. You are not only very attractive you are very insirational.

Thank you for your guidance and keep up the excellent information.

PS if you need another camera guy I would be happy to volunteer.

Hi zuzanna!

I just want to know-Are those green PEPPERS you are using? because you say green “ONIONS” but I’ve never seen these (Maybe they dont have them where I live)

Thanks

OMG! This was the best tuna salad I have ever had. Thank you Zuzana:)

I tried this salad its lovely, you are right the cranberries does give a beutiful color and texture but they also taste so grate. any way wanted to share with you my fave quona meditterenian salad
quana about 1 cup,
chopped grape tomatoes,
chopped cucumber into small cubes,
black canned olives just a little compare ot the veggies,
corn fresh or canned,
crumbled feta just a little gives it a unique taste,
grilled chicken cut into small cubes
cilantro very important because it highlights the unique taste
squezze lemon juice of 1/2 lemon
salt pepper to taste
its a grate salad you will love it promise, I didnt put how much you should out of each ingredient because it depend how much you want to make , and you know better cuz you’ve done lots of salads in the same style
Enjoy!

Hmm…sounds good I’ll try my own version and let ya know.

Hi Zuzana,

I JUST made this recipe and.. it was absolutely delicious!! Thank you so so much for sharing this recipe with us. It is so easy to make. I changed a few things: replaced the lime juice with lemon juice, added kidney beans, used raisins instead of dried cranberries, and added some red onions :).

mmmm great recipe thanks for sharing

I loved it! I hope you can share more recepies with us, they’re healthy, cheap, tasty, and SOOO easy to prepare! Not cooking is not an option, this things are easy! Hope to see more soon, thank you very much! I had one question regarding the portions, if for some reason lets say between breakfast and lunch I have no time to eat something, do you recommend eating a bigger portion at breakfast? or what should I do? thanks again!

Hi Zuzana,

I enjoy watching your workouts and diet tips. I have one nice and healthy recepie- Rice salad with salmon.

1 slice of salmon- cooked in water (can be grilled as well)
basmati rice
green onion (choped)
dried cranberries
green pepper spice
sea salt
pine peanuts or sunflower peanuts

When rice gets little bit cold, add all ingrediences and mix them together. Salmon should be cutted on small pieces. I really enjoy this meal, hopefully you will enjoy as well.

it looks delicious! I will make it tommorow, you rock :)

I just made this and am eating it right now! It’s delicious! So light and refreshing!

Can someone please type the recipe for me? im deaf many thanks :)

I made this last night and it was amazing. I brought it to work for lunch today as well. My hubby tried it and says he thinks he would love it if I mad e it with chicken instead of tuna. He is not a huge tuna fan. I am new to the website and am loving the workouts and the recipes. I ordered my interval timer last week and can’t wait to get it so I can quit guessing on my times. :o)