High protein stuffed pasta shells!

New recipe! High protein stuffed shells!

When you focus on calories and increasing protein it is so easy to take all the recipes you love, make small tweaks and get them to fit your nutritional needs for weight loss and maintenance. That’s exactly what I did with this stuffed shell recipe! Comment below with the recipe you want me to make healthier!

1CUP blended low fat cottage cheese
1 cup ricotta cheese
.75 cup skim mozzarella cheese
Italian seasoning
Garlic powder
Onion powder
Salt and pepper
8 oz lean ground chicken cooked
8oz ground pork cooked
1 jar pasta sauce I used simply @ragu
17-20 jumbo pasta shells cooked
Frozen spinach, thawed, and squeeze pit as much water as possible.

Cook your pasta shells based off package.

Mix blended cottage cheese, ricotta, mozzarella and spices together. Add half the ground meat and mix. Add As much or as little spinach as you like.

Line your baking dish with jar of pasta sauce and add the rest of the meat and mix. Stuff your shells and add to baking dish. Bake in oven at 375 for 20-30 mins until hot and bubbly and enjoy!

Makes five servings
Serving size is about 3 shells with sauce
Each serving provides
450 calories
18g fat
25g carbs
40g protein

if you’re eating a chloric deficit and trying to hit your daily protein goal you’re going to love these stuffed pasta shells I tell my lean clients over and over you’re making it harder than it has to be you do not have to radically change the foods that you eat and love you just need to make a couple of tweaks in the way you’re making it in order to help it fit your calories and macros and that’s what I did here I subbed out some of the ricotta cheese for some Blended cottage cheese and added some ground meat in order to bump the protein up and reduce the calories I also made some without spinach in order to keep my family happy so we’re all eating the same thing and I’m still able to manage my calories and hit my protein goal I’ve got the full recipe in the caption below and be sure to save this one because everyone is going to love it