Katie Austin Shares Realistic Take on a Week-Long Lineup of Healthy Dinners

In classic form, she has curated six delicious and easy recipes to incorporate into your routine.

Martha Zaytoun | Oct 22, 2023

Katie Austin.

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Not only is Katie Austin a fantastic health and fitness coach, but she’s a realistic one, too. She understands that, like her, we are all busy people, who don’t have unlimited time or resources to give to either our workouts or our meals.

With that knowledge, she has crafted a health platform particularly tailored toward people with busy schedules. Her workouts are designed to be effective without requiring tons of equipment or loads of time. Likewise, her homemade recipes are crafted to be delicious and nutritious, without breaking the bank or taking half your day to make.

Like us, she wants to be realistic about the time and attention she has to give to preparing meals for herself. In a recent TikTok video, she shared her take on a “realistic [lineup of] healthy dinners in a week.” While each of the recipes look delicious—she has a knack for putting “healthified” spins on age-old classic dishes—they are designed with her time constraints in mind.

Here are the six meals—or similar ones—that she recommends for a nutritious, yet practical, weekly lineup.

Healthy Packed Bolognese

Full of hearty vegetables, ground turkey, marinara sauce and parmesan cheese, this pasta dish is a simple, yet delicious, take on a classic Italian dish.

Creamy White Bean and Kale Potato Soup

Much as it sounds, this soup—a perfect dish for fall—contains white beans, kale and potato. Combined with other fresh vegetables, chicken broth and heavy cream, the seasonal favorite makes for an easy weeknight recipe.

Loaded Turkey Tostadas

“Loaded” with ground turkey, beans, cheese, lettuce, avocado and sauce, these taco-esque tostadas are a great “healthified” addition to your recipe rotation.

Cacio e Pepe Spaghetti Squash

Though the recipe in the TikTok was for a “sundried tomato spaghetti squash” dish, we think this pasta-inspired recipe looks just as delightful. The simple recipe features a shredded spaghetti squash coated in a sauce containing olive oil, butter, cheese, salt and pepper.

Healthified Takeout Fried Rice

Austin’s take on takeout fried rice combines the typical vegetables (peas, carrots and cabbage) with white rice, cauliflower and bacon for a slightly healthier version of the original recipe.

BLT Pasta Salad

Like your typical BLT, but add pasta and make it a salad. This recipe contains rotini, bacon, lettuce and tomato, doused in a mayo-heavy dressing—a perfectly tasty addition to your recipe roundup.

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Published Oct 22, 2023

MARTHA ZAYTOUN

Martha Zaytoun is a Lifestyle & Trending News writer for SI Swimsuit. Before joining the team, Martha worked on the editorial board of the University of Notre Dame’s student magazine and on the editorial team at Chapel Hill, Durham and Chatham Magazines in North Carolina. When not working, Martha loves to watercolor and oil paint, run or water ski. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a huge Fighting Irish fan.