Build a healthy veggie burger!
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure.Last night, I was super tired when I got home from work, and I didn’t want to spend more than 20 min in the kitchen in order to make dinner. Fortunately, I had MorningStar Veggie Burgers in my freezer, which made for a super delicious, healthy and filling meal! Veggie burgers can be made to be either very healthy, or pretty unhealthy. Below are my suggestions on how to build a healthy burger. Enjoy! 🙂
Ingredients
- Veggie burger patty – I like MorningStar Tomato and Basil Pizza Burgers the best. But any veggie burger that has 100-120 calories per burger, 3g fiber or more, and 9g protein or more is a good choice.
- Whole wheat burger buns – I like Orowheat 100% Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns – each bun has 180 calories, 6g fiber and 9g protein!
- Ketchup
- Baby spinach – this is a much better alternative to lettuce. Spinach has more fiber and healthy antioxidants!
- Tomato slices
- Diced Red onion – a better alternative to white onion (again the red color has healthy antioxidants). I also think red onion has more flavor.
- Sliced Red bell peppers (optional) – if you want to add a bit of extra fiber/veggies to your burger, red bell peppers are a great option – they have a great crunchy texture and fiber
Directions
- Cook burgers according to package directions (I like grilling them on the stovetop – you don’t need any oil or anything – just a nonstick skillet!)
- Toast buns, and build your burger! Burger bun, veggie burger patty, onion, tomato, spinach, peppers, ketchup, salt/pepper to taste.
Dinner is served in 20 min!
Btw – using the products above, each burger would have about 300-325 calories, at least 10g fiber and 18-20g protein!
That is a very reasonable number of calories for dinner, especially as a woman since we should be eating ~1,600 instead of ~2,000 calories a day.
I should get a package for emergency use.
Another thing you can do with veggie burgers is use them as a salad topping instead of chicken.
Those veggie burgers are actually pretty good. Thanks for the tips.
I love those veggies burgers. I used to eat them all the time when I first started Weight Watchers. Simple and delicious!