This is a short YouTube interview between host Natalie Jill and guest Rachel Mazzar (Clean Food Crush) about healthy, presentation-forward recipes that adhere to Natalie Jill's 7 Day Jumpstart principles. They show and describe several complete meals/demos: cucumber cups stuffed with avocado and raw or cooked salmon/tuna; grain-free crab cakes using seed/nut-based crackers or almond meal instead of breadcrumbs; honey-sriracha marinated chicken served with avocado and tomato (platter or taco-style); and a chocolate-pudding-like dessert made from avocado and sweetened with dates. Emphasis is on clean ingredients, balancing protein/carbs/fat, make-ahead prep, and appealing presentation to encourage kids and guests to eat healthier.
Grain-free crackers made from seeds and nuts and/or almond meal.
Dates.
Chapters
Hey, guys.
Natalie, Jill. Welcome back to Unprocessed yous Diet. I'm here with Rachel Mazzar from Clean Food Crush. Now, what I love about Rachel is not just her amazing social media and her pictures and her recipes and just how creative and amazing she is, but this girl is not only a mom of four, but I met her through her fabulous transformation on my seven Day Jumpstart several years ago. Yeah, one of my first ones. And not only did she transform her body at that time, but. But she ended up launching an entire business, creating the most amazing Clean Food Crush meals. And how cute does that mean? Clean Food Crush.
Healthier food that's still delicious.
A lot of your meals, actually all of them are based on my seven Day Jumpstart principle. So anyone that's following my seven Day Jumpstart, your meals would work on these.
All of them.
Yeah.
That was initially what I learned from and that's what we've kept.
And it's so creative. It is so creative. So we had a little cook off today and it was hard to come up with more than four because we would have probably wanted to eat them all then because they're good. They're good. But each one is really a complete meal in itself because it has the protein, the carbs and the fat.
Talk to me about these first because these things are super cute. They're like giant sushis without the sushi.
That was the idea. I made these one Friday afternoon for some girlfriends who were coming over. All my girlfriends love sushi. So we through the salmon and you could also use tuna if you want to use tuna instead of the salmon.
Some chopped red onion, the fresh dill, and we stuffed avocado down in the middle of those English cucumbers. Find the biggest cucumber you can find. We squeeze the fresh lemon, which just. It makes it delicious.
Look how pretty these are.
You can really eat 2 to 3 of these because about 4 ounces of salmon fits in 2 to 3. And you're just. You're so satisfied they're delicious.
Mine that I wanted to show her first was my crab cakes because I love crab. I don't know if you like crab. I'm obsessed with crab. And usually at a restaurant or a friend's house when they make crab cakes, they have bread and mayonnaise and stuff. That's not healthy.
I was at the grocery store within the past few days and I flipped the bread crumbs around to the back and the ingredients are terrible. There was probably 100 ingredients. So don't put those breadcrumbs in Larry, and it's all chemicals. Like, it's crazy.
So my little trick with this was I use grain free crackers. So made from seeds, nuts, and I ground them up, a little bit of almond meal in them. Typically, I have a few favorite brands of crackers that have that, but you could do it with just some almond meal and some seeds and nuts. And you get the fat, you get the protein. And then if you pair it with some vegetables or some fruit, you've got a complete meal right there. And then talk to me about these because these have that, like, tangy, spicy, spicy sweet.
The chicken is actually marinated in a honey sriracha sauce, so you could marinate your chicken overnight. And the longer it has to marinate, it soaks up those flavors. We add the avocado and the tomatoes and it's all about making it pretty. If it's pretty, that people want to dive in. So you could prepare ahead of time an entire platter or you could serve it family buffet, taco style. Get the kids in here. The kids will grab and make their own and what they put on their plate, they're more likely to eat.
So I've got the protein, the carb and the fat here. You've got the protein for the chicken, you've got the avocado adding the fat and. And then we've got vegetables for the carbs. You can add some extra carbs if you want to do that. And then my surprise one was my dessert that's actually basically a meal. This dessert is amazing because it looks like and it tastes like chocolate pudding, but it's made from avocado and it tastes. You thought it was really.
I was digging in the blender with my spoon and I like what is the sweetener because it's really sweet. It tastes like chocolate pudding, but it's the dates. It's amazing.
So clean eating could be super fun. It could be tasty, it's easy. Kids like it. You're gonna love all this stuff. Yeah, it's simp. Just because you are eating clean and healthy and natural does not mean you have to give up the taste at all. And you definitely don't have to give up the presentation because we have some serious Instagram and Pinterest worthy photos right here. I think so. I hope you guys liked these recipes from Clean Food Crush and from me. We're gonna put all the information below on where you can find these exact recipes. And if you want more, I've got a link below. On where you can get my unprocessed you Diet Cookbook, and I'm putting information below on where you can find all of Rachel's Click Clean Foods Crush Amazing stuff. Make sure you follow her on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, everywhere, Snapchat, because her stuff is amazing, it's drool worthy, and it's not gonna add any cushion because our stuff is healthy and yummy and it's all Jumpstart approved too. So thanks guys. Bye.
