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Simplifying Meal Prep: Easy-to-Track Macro-Friendly Recipes
If you’re new to tracking your macros and aren’t big on cooking, creating meals can be a challenge at first. Not only are you learning to accurately weigh and measure your food, you’re also learning how to manipulate your meals to hit your targets. It can seem like a lot, but the key is starting with simplicity and focusing on the basics first. Today’s post is about just that, giving you a thorough guide for how you can create easy-to-track meals that are equally easy to prepare.
Healthy Mustard Maple Salmon: A Healthy Sheet Pan Recipe
This mustard maple salmon sheet pan meal is pretty easy, even if you’re not a pro in the kitchen. Try it out next time you’re hosting - it’s a yummy, stress-free dinner for 4 that you can make in just about an hour! And best part? It still fits in with your nutrition goals!
Easy BBQ Turkey Hash Recipe for a Post-Workout Meal
Our most liked recipe is back with an update and a lower-carb version available in the Everyday Macros Cookbook. This BBQ Turkey Hash is high in protein and carbs and low in fat for a perfect post-workout meal. It's quick and easy and it reheats well, so you can make a big batch that lasts all week!
Master Macro Tracking While Traveling: Expert Tips for Consistency
If you find traveling to be extra stressful and destructive to your healthy habits, check out these tips for maintaining a bit of normalcy while still leaving room for plenty of fun while en route.
How to Be Successful Working With a Nutrition Coach
This week we’re talking check-ins. If you have a nutrition coach or really any kind of coach, you probably have some sort of regularly scheduled touch base with your coach to catch up about how things are going. So, other than checking the box off your to-do list (check-in: done) and a brief touch base with your coach, why are check-ins so important? Today we’re breaking it down and offering advice from a coaching perspective about how you as a client can get the most out of your check-ins.
High-Protein Smoothie Recipes for Tracking Macros
A smoothie: a good food to add to your day or a fake-healthy fad? It depends! This week we’re sharing some favorite smoothie recipes and, more importantly, explaining why smoothies are neither good nor bad and may be helpful in supporting you and your goals.
High-Volume Veggie Alternatives for Low-Carb Meals
Poor carbs always get a bad rap, but here at KLN we love all the carbs. However, sometimes our favorite calorie-dense carbs, like rice, pasta and bread products, don’t exactly fit into our macros. So, today, we’re sharing how to do this with some of our favorite high-volume alternatives to our favorite carbs.
A Nutrition Coach's Daily Meal Plan: An Inside Look
To show you a bit of what tracking your macros can look like, the coaches are showing you what a full day of eating looks like for each of them and their specific goals. While we all follow the same concept of flexible nutrition, our approaches are very different.
Macro-Friendly Meals Made Easy: 8 Tips for Those Who Dislike Cooking
Here’s the thing: eating healthy does NOT mean you have to spend hours in the kitchen cooking elaborate meals. Eating healthy can be a challenge if you hate cooking, however, it’s not impossible! Check out our tips for eating healthy even if you hate to cook.
Easy Summer Salad: A High-Volume, Macro-Friendly Recipe
The weather is finally starting to warm up and we are ready for light and refreshing meals, which is why we’re loving this Summer Salad right now. Salads often get a bad rap. They’re seen as healthy (but sad) alternatives to better, tastier dishes that we could order out or make at home. But over here at KLN, we are Team Salad all the way.
Low-Carb Scotch Eggs: A High-Protein, Keto-Friendly Recipe
If you’re looking for a new protein to add to your arsenal, these low-carb scotch eggs are sure to spice it up! They’re quick and simple to make and will help break up the monotony of chicken breast and ground turkey in your weekly menu. They can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner and pair well with just about anything!
Easy, Healthy Valentine's Dinner: Macro-Friendly 3-Course Meal
Any holiday is a good excuse for us to loosen up on tracking and say I’ll get back to it tomorrow. BUT, with a little bit of planning and pre-tracking, you can have a full day of eating AND a yummy home-cooked meal with your Valentine without compromising your nutrition goals.
If you’re staying in this Valentine’s and cooking for you and your honey, try this easy, 3-course macro-friendly meal for two!
Easy Crock-Pot Shredded Chicken for High-Protein Meal Prep
This shredded chicken is one of my go-to batch prep recipes because it is so quick and easy to make and can be prepared on Sunday to last you a whole week of meals. You can use it in salads or wraps for lunches or add it to any dinner recipe that calls for chicken.
You can find this recipe, along with 6 different dinners and lunches that use this shredded chicken as the main ingredient, in the Everyday Macros Cookbook located inside The Good Stuff.
Sarah's Transformation: Achieving Fat Loss Through Tracking Macros
Macro-tracking success: hear from a client who has made incredible changes in both her body composition and her relationship with food.
5 Ways to Make Any Recipe More Macro-Friendly
As much as I love a traditional family recipe, when you’re tracking your macros or simply trying to be conscious of your nutrition choices, traditional recipes may not exactly “fit your macros.” Today’s post is here as a quick guide of ways to make healthier, more macro-friendly versions of your favorite recipes using simple ingredient substitutions.
Thanksgiving Meal Tips while Tracking Macros
When you’re tracking your macros and you have goals that you’re chasing down, eating in social settings inevitably brings about a bit of anxiety. Now, let’s talk about a family dinner, specifically a holiday family dinner, that’s centered around eating. How do you approach this kind of meal with some semblance of balance and mindfulness?
Healthy Macro-Friendly Thanksgiving Recipes
The holidays bring about lots of time with friends and family and with that usually comes lots of food. Don’t let anxiety about your food at to your holiday stress this season. We’ve got you covered with these healthier macro-friendly versions of all your favorite Thanksgiving side dishes. Your family won’t even know the difference and you can enjoy your meal, guilt-free.
Coach Diana's Top Macro-Friendly Foods and High-Protein Snacks
Today Coach D is sharing her three of my favorite macro-friendly items that she can’t live without. First: her favorite way for getting in a little extra protein, second: one of the most versatile snacks in her pantry, and third: a current favorite macro-friendly sweet treat.