{"id":7402,"date":"2026-02-16T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personaltrainerfoodblog.com\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:31:58","slug":"lemon-zest-green-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/lemon-zest-green-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Zest Green Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"Dress up your favorite meal with this tangy side dish!\n\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pinit aligncenter size-full wp-image-9913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lemon-Zest-Green-Beans_resized.jpg?resize=1000%2C692&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Get rapid weight loss with Personal Trainer Food's Lemon Zest Green Beans!\" width=\"1000\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lemon-Zest-Green-Beans_resized.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lemon-Zest-Green-Beans_resized.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lemon-Zest-Green-Beans_resized.jpg?resize=768%2C531&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BestWayBanner.jpg?resize=800%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"click here for the best way to lose weight\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BestWayBanner.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BestWayBanner.jpg?resize=300%2C38&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BestWayBanner.jpg?resize=768%2C96&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n\n<strong>Personal Trainer Food Ingredients:<\/strong>\n1 bag of Green Beans\n\n<strong>Additional Ingredients:<\/strong>\n1 tsp garlic\n1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice\n\u00bc cup grated parmesan cheese\nZest of 1\/2 lemon\nSalt and pepper, to taste\n\n<strong>Instructions:<\/strong>\n<ol>\n \t<li>Combine, garlic, lemon juice, parmesan cheese, and lemon zest in a small bowl.<\/li>\n \t<li>Heat Green Beans in the microwave, then remove from steamer bag and place on a plate.<\/li>\n \t<li>Top green beans with the lemon mixture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#d0d0d0;color:#d0d0d0\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sam-watts.png?resize=125%2C125&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sam Watts\" class=\"wp-image-21415\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Writer:<\/strong> <em>Sam Watts has nearly 10 years of experience in the health and wellness industry with a focus on fitness. He earned a BS in Movement Science from TCU in 2017 and uses it in his work as a Functional Movement Specialist. Currently, he is the owner of Watts Fitness and the Co-Owner of Personal Trainer Food.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dress up your favorite meal with this tangy side dish! Personal Trainer Food Ingredients: 1 bag of Green Beans Additional Ingredients: 1 tsp garlic 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice \u00bc cup grated parmesan cheese Zest of 1\/2 lemon Salt and pepper, to taste Instructions: Combine, garlic, lemon juice, parmesan cheese, and lemon zest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creative-food-ideas","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Lemon-Zest-Green-Beans_resized.jpg?fit=1000%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7cwqv-1Vo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21921,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/21921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personaltrainerfood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}