It’s insanely easy to cook a healthy meal on-the-go for your family or for a crowd with our free low carb chicken recipes for your portable barbecue. These recipes are not only healthy, but bonus! – they’re delicious. At the beach, the campground, sporting events, wherever your wheels will take you, your portable barbecue can be used to prepare high protein chicken recipes. A low carb and high protein diet will keep you physically fit and full of energy all day so that you can enjoy doing more of the activities you love! These free low carb recipes are simple to make and your friends and family will be amazed that you made them using only your portable barbecue grill.

Pesto Chicken

4 servings

Combine marinade ingredients in a shallow dish or large ziplock bag:
1/2 cup low-fat pesto
1/4 cup lemon juice
zest from lemon, minced
1/4 cup mustard

Place 4 four-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts in marinade, turning to coat. Refrigerate 1 to 4 hours.

Remove chicken from marinade. Pour marinade into small pan and bring to boil to kill any bacteria.

Place chicken on oiled grill over medium heat. Grill, covered 8 minutes on each side, turning two to three times and basting with marinade each time.

Calories per serving: 270

Insanely Low Calorie Version

Calories per serving: 140

Hot Lime Chicken

4 servings

Place the following ingredients in a large ziplock bag or shallow pan:
¼ cup lime juice
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 large pinches cayenne pepper
4 cloves garlic, minced

Place 4 four-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts in marinade, turning to coat. Refrigerate 6 to 8 hours, turning occasionally.

Preheat grill.

Remove chicken from marinade, reserving marinade. Pour marinade into small pan and bring to a boil to kill any bacteria.

Place chicken on grill over medium heat. Grill covered for 10 minutes on each side or until chicken juices run clear. Baste chicken with marinade two or three times while cooking.

Calories per serving: 170

Insanely Low Calorie Version

Calories per serving: 124

Extremely Low Calorie Versions of the Above Recipes

Substitute vegetables for half the chicken. Do not marinate the vegetables, just brush them with the marinade as they’re grilling. Good vegetable choices could be eggplant, zucchini or mushrooms, but any vegetable that your family likes works as long as it’s not a starchy vegetable such as potatoes, corn or carrots.

Hopefully these recipes will soon become some of your favorite barbecue recipes and your family will never know that they’re really low carb chicken recipes.

So, we can’t have all work and exercise and dieting all the time. It’s time for a bit of fun… and food! I’m hungry. And so here are a few really good tomato juice recipes you can whip up in your vegetable juicer for before or after your workout. We all know tomatoes are packed with vitamins and minerals, so get juicing!

Tomato Juice Recipes #1 – Plain Ole Tomato Juice
5 tomatoes

Tomato Juice Recipes #2 – V8
3 Tomatoes
4 carrots
1 small beet
3 stalks of celery
1 cup of spinach
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 cup of kale

Tomato Juice Recipes #3 – Garlicy Tom Juice
2 tomatoes
2 apples
1 glove of garlic

Tomato Juice Recipes #4 – The Deep Deep Red
5 tomatoes
1 cup of beet leaves
1 tbs of lemon juice

Tomato Juice Recipe #5 – Breakfast Tom Juice
1 grapefruit
1 tomato
1 cup of white cabbage
1/2 apple

Juicing Tomatoes
Tomatoes can be juiced raw or they can be blanched or cooked first, based on your preference. Either way don’t juice the stems, they are poisonous! I prefer to juice tomatoes raw with their skins on to take advantage of the many antioxidants that congregate in the skins. However, it is a good idea to not drink raw tomato juice too often because it contains oxalic acid, a compound that can leech calcium out of the body. If you cook the tomatoes, the oxalic acid will become neutralized, avoiding this problem

Organic Tomatoes Vs Non-Organic Tomatoes
Endless studies show that there can be a  big difference between the nutrient content of organic and non-organic (intensively farmed) tomatoes. A study conducted by Betty Ishida and Mary Chapman at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Albany, CA found that organic ketchup contained three times as much lycopene (a potent antioxidant) as non-organic ketchup! It can be safe to assume this applies to tomatoes! So use organic tomatoes in your vegetable juicer recipes to get the benefits of extra lycopene. Non-organic tomatoes also get sprayed with carcinogenic pesticides that can play a heavy toll on the immune system.

Anti-Cancer Health Benefits of Lycopene
Lycopene is a phytonutrient that has undergo a lot of research in the past decade in its role to protect us from cancers. As an antioxidant, lycopene protects our cells from oxygen based damage that can lead to cancer. Animal studies have found that lycopene supplementation was especially effective at protecting them from developing prostate cancer. Although research in human males is still yet to be conducted.

Another study was focused upon the connection between blood levels of lycopene and colon cancer. It was found that patients who developed colon polyps ( a lump that often becomes cancerous) had 32% lower blood levels of lycopene than those who have developed no polyps. In this detailed study many other nutrients and lifestyle habits were also examined. However, low blood levels of lycopene and smoking were discovered to be the only risk factors for developing colon polyps.