Goat cheese & spinach chicken burgers

I love burgers. Prior to my new healthy lifestyle, I recall that I often ate burgers three or four times a week. It doesn't help that both my mother and father are exceptionally gifted when it comes to burning meat (my mom seasons her burgers incredibly; my dad grills his - enough said). I rarely eat burgers of the beef and cheese variety these days because they happen to be at the top of my list of trigger foods, but I am now only just stumbling upon how versatile a burger can be.

I'm a really big fan of using what I have in my fridge to come up with recipes. It helps eliminate the amount of food I end up throwing away and it also keeps food costs down. Whenever I find a sale, I stock up on an item and I try to come up with creative ways to use it so I'm not stuck in a loop of culinary redundancy. Something fairly new to me that I've been experimenting with is ground chicken and ground turkey. To any and all fans of ground beef, I recommend either. Ground turkey and chicken taste virtually identical to ground beef in most recipes, I've found, and they are also leaner and healthier for you. Additionally, when you use ground poultry instead of ground beef, you generally don't have to worry about a plot point of Ghostbusters II hiding in your food.

I have several packets of ground chicken just taking up room in my freezer. So I pulled out one and decided to give goat cheese and spinach chicken burgers a go.

Inaugural post & healthy nachos

I think one of the reasons why weight loss has eluded me for so long is because I am an eater by nature. For a long time, I decided that if I couldn't eat the things that I wanted while dieting, then I simply wasn't going to diet. Part of what this blog will contain are foods that I have always enjoyed remixed in a healthy way.

I'd like to preamble this first recipe by saying that I am no doctor. I will not calculate carbs or calories for you. I will not presume to tell you how much you should be consuming on a daily basis (there are sites like Sparkpeople or FitDay for this). Instead, I will tell you that the purpose of this blog is to make healthy food without sacrificing taste. I will also tell you that for my own sake, I try to keep my recipes low-carb, high-protein, and low-fat.

Cool? Cool.

So without further ado, I present to you my version of healthy nachos!