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AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

AARPTeri — Tue, 11 May 2021 18:00:07 GMT

Welcome to the final week of our AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, May 24-31, 2021

In honor of National Burger Day (5/28) and Memorial Day! We want you to share how your healthy eating ideas and tips work during a long holiday of eating! Share them here and get 50 AARP Rewards point as well as a chance to win our Week 4 topic. Rules: https://community.aarp.org/t5/AARP-Rewards-Connect/AARP-Rewards-Healthy-Plate-Contest-2021-Official-... . Click here to see information on the contest

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 1 May 3-9, 2021

jmwoodcock — Mon, 24 May 2021 18:37:29 GMT

My plan for this Holiday weekend is to prepare 2 raw veggie salads (including cucumber, celery and zucchini for hydration), 1 fruit salad for the house and make 2 dozen deviled eggs to take to a BBQ. I have gas for the grill. I'll keep meal prep to a minimum and prep as much food as I can on Friday. On Thursday I will grocery shop and I'm also making a large pan of brownies (no sugar, w applesauce) for the sweet tooth.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

lg7566 — Mon, 24 May 2021 19:17:04 GMT

Here's my plan: drink more water (than beer/wine); choose a smaller plate at the buffet instead of filling up a large dinner plate; select proteins and fruits and vegetables without sauces and dressings. Engage in another activity and not to hover over the food table.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

a170938b — Mon, 24 May 2021 20:49:10 GMT

Cucumber and watermelon salad with fresh mint and feta cheese! It is a very refreshing dish that goes well with another delicious salad: the 5 beans salad, with chick peas, red beans, black beans, wax beans, green beans, red onion, bell pepper, red wine vinegar, olive oil and fresh herbs. These 2 salads, a few black olives, a few raw almonds and a hunk of sourdough bread, healthy and scrumptious! What a heavenly picnic!

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

elbee816 — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:01:13 GMT

Burgers are 97% fat free turkey meat. Side dish of corn on the cob, plain, no butter. Salad with red and orange pepper, dry roasted almond slivers, no dressing.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

d953405f — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:22:56 GMT

Maintain a healthy by portion controls.. Lots of fresh veggies and fruits -esp w spring there is so many available. Lean meats and exercise regularly.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 1 May 3-9, 2021

DonnaW545211 — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:28:52 GMT

Portion control. Holidays I bring to go containers instead of having seconds.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

co7256512 — Tue, 25 May 2021 19:31:35 GMT

Here is a Mix and match menu for an outdoor barbeque. (A healthy plate cuts back on fats, sugars, and sodium.) You can always add heart-healthy options to a regular menu. Ask your diabetic friends for suggestions too. I attend parties for groups of 50, what I'd make for myself is heart-healthy and diabetic friendly--we've relatives and friends that are on Keto diets too! PS--the brought and bought desserts are too numerous to mention, so, I'll just add bring desserts that don't have to stay cold or hot--that is unless you're bringing an ice cream churn.

Regular Barbeque Menu

Grilled chicken or hamburgers or kosher hotdogs or barbeque pork or barbeque chicken.

Grilled steak

Buns

Lettuce

Tomato slices

Onions

Cheese

Chili

Chips

Pasta salads

Baked beans

Chopped onions

Slaws

Potato salad

Mustard, mayo, ketchup

Water, tea, lemonade

Heart-healthy options include the following in appropriate amounts for each individual.

Remember to plan a way to keep the cold foods cold and the hot foods hot.

Grilled chicken breast over a bed of spring mixed greens.

A black bean and corn side salad with purple onion slivers, slivered carrots, thinly cut radishes, cubed Roma tomatoes, Italian seasoning, yellow vinegar, olive oil, fresh ground black pepper

A punch bowl salad containing the following--cauliflower and broccoli florets, celery and carrot sticks, squash and zucchini rounds or sticks, sweet pepper strips, Italian seasoning, fresh ground pepper, olive oil. Salt in a shaker.

Zucchini chips with a fresh salsa dip.

Fruit platter, including watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries, grapes, and orange segments, could make kabobs for the platter.

Spinach salad with strawberries, feta, pecans on a spinach bed of green. Raspberry vinegerette.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

JaniceC910958 — Mon, 24 May 2021 23:53:33 GMT

I grill long slices or zucchini, yellow squash. I also wrap baked potatoes and put them in the fire. I boil a cut up chicken before I grill it. Then I grill chunks of watermelon and pineapple, thick slices of peaches and have that for dessert with chopped basil.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

arinmckenna — Tue, 25 May 2021 00:21:56 GMT

My friends and I will have grilled salmon as our main course. I may bring some veggie burgers to grill as well.

Memorial Day Family Fun Eating in the TreeTop House on Sassafras Street

jb83309752 — Tue, 25 May 2021 00:31:27 GMT

We will welcome our two young granddaughters to our home for fresh fruit and veggie prep with them to delight the hearts of us all!

Being together and kitchen fun with a 4 and 6 year old lets them learn food sourcing and options of preparing food. They work side by side to shown their love.

Life skills in the kitchen are the key to a life well lived.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

Dakotalady401 — Tue, 25 May 2021 01:16:39 GMT

I switch to veggie burgers there are so many yummy varieties out there you don’t even miss the meat and when you dress your burger with lettuce tomato and red onion you don’t even notice

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

GinaG28321 — Tue, 25 May 2021 01:20:03 GMT

My late father was a doctor. He told me" Drink water. Other beverages are OK from time to time, But the liquid your body wants and needs is water! Not colas. Not a lot of juice. Water. Water? Water!"

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

Wagz — Tue, 25 May 2021 01:34:47 GMT

I invested in a $20 kitchen scale. I weight everything that goes into my mouth. I have lost 52 pounds since January 1st, 2021!

You really know how many calories in you're portion??

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

kt3550 — Tue, 25 May 2021 02:12:40 GMT

When I'm invited to a get-together with friends, I do a couple of things. First, I eat before I go so I'm less prone to overeat while there. Second, I take a dish with me. That way, I can be certain that there will be at least one thing available that I can feel good about eating. Being proactive is the key to a healthy lifestyle!

Healthy Plate Contest Week 4

mcsg — Tue, 25 May 2021 02:29:30 GMT

When I eat out at a restaurant I separate my meal in half and box it to take home. This gives me two meals for the price of one. I also take my time eating so I get that "I'm full" feeling and therefore don't have room for the half I saved.

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

r346764r — Tue, 25 May 2021 04:41:13 GMT

Which scale did you buy? How do you measure the calories then? Thanks!

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

2Papa — Tue, 25 May 2021 04:56:51 GMT

Go for the lite beer instead of regular!

Re: AARP Rewards Healthy Plate Contest, Week 4, May 24-31st

TWC — Tue, 25 May 2021 05:45:24 GMT

Water fruits and vegetables come first.

Unbelievable burger

CynthiaM594330 — Tue, 25 May 2021 06:33:16 GMT

Cooking on the grill makes my burger taste unbelievable. So many options. Vegetables are bonus freebies .Shiskabobs are so full of flavor and take minutes. Fresh cold leaf lettuce salads cool and refreshing. Throw in some strawberries.. negative calories !!