My recipe for:

The Healthiest Cheese-Steak in the World

by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist

I've been known to come up with ways to make typical junk foods extremely healthy... Unique recipes for healthier pizza versions, healthy burgers, healthy chocolate peanut butter fudge, etc, etc have all been featured in my newsletters in the past.

Today, I wanted to tell you about my "world's healthiest cheesesteak".

It's true... you REALLY CAN make a super-healthy cheesesteak, that's absolutely delicious!  And I'll show you how on this page.

Growing up in the Philly area, I'm sure you're aware we're known for our famous cheese-steaks. However, health and fitness have NEVER been associated with our cheesesteaks... until Gear-master healthy chef stepped in.

So here's how I make the world's healthiest cheesesteak:

First, I use Ezekial sprouted grain rolls, which are a mix of about 10 different sprouted grains with no refined flour. I'm still not a huge fan of eating too much grains in your diet, but if you're going to do it, sprouted grain bread (or rolls) is the best option.  Since Ezekial sprouted grain bread is a mix of 8-10 sprouted grains, you also get less wheat, since most people already eat way too much wheat in their diet.

If you can't find the Ezekial brand, most health food stores have several brands of sprouted grain bread (note: this is NOT the same thing as "whole grain" bread... despite heavy marketing as "healthy", whole grain bread is not necessarily that healthy, but if you can't find sprouted grain bread, try to find the bread with the highest fiber content as a next best option).

Then, I use a good quality grass-fed beef and slice it thin. Grass fed beef contains larger quantities of CLA - conjugated linoleic acid, which (in it's natural form) is shown in some studies to promote fat loss and muscle building. Also, grass fed beef contains a much better ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids compared with typical grain-fed beef sold at most stores (which comes from factory feedlot farms notorious for unhealthy cattle and inferior nutrition in the beef compared to grass-fed beef)

What I do is to just semi-defrost a large chunk of beef in the fridge for about 10-12 hours, and that allows it to be easily sliced thin for cheese-steaks.

Then, I use a raw longhorn, colby, our gouda cheese from grass-fed cows as well. Grass-fed dairy is also a great source of beneficial fat burning CLA.

Finally, I top it all off with some sauteed organic vidalia onions and baby portobella mushrooms, both sauteed in a little virgin coconut oil -- a great source of healthy medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) and immune-boosting lauric acid.

and voila... we now have the healthiest cheesesteak on the freakin planet! Between the powerful antioxidants in the onions and mushrooms, The MCTs in the coconut oil, the fat-burning CLA in the grass-fed cheese and grass-fed beef, and the diversity of nutrients in the sprouted grain roll, we might even call this a "body-sculpting cheese-steak"!

But more importantly, it is damn delicious too!

Enjoy!

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To your good health and lean body,

Mike Geary
Certified Personal Trainer
Certified Nutrition Specialist
Author of the best-seller:  The Truth about Six Pack Abs

 

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