Red Quinoa Salad Recipe

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Red Quinoa

Red Quinoa Salad

Quinoa

Red Quinoa is heart healthy and an excellent source of healthy fiber. Red Quinoa is rich in magnesium and Vitamin B9 with 25% daily value, a good source of protein, iron, thiamin B1, riboflavin B2, and vitamin B6, very low sodium, saturated fat and cholesterol free. This sure sounds like a healthy, gluten-free hearty grain to add to my diet. Quinoa was first cultivated over 7,000 years ago near the equator in South America this grain was the staple grain of the Inca, Maya, and other native Americans for centuries. I like the idea of understanding the history of the food on our plates.

Red Quinoa Salad

Red Quinoa Salad

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Chicken Soup Recipe

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Chicken Soup

Hearty Chicken Soup loaded with Healthy Vegetables.

Hearty Chicken and Collard Greens Soup is a low-fat, highly nutritious hearty soup for these cold Winter days. We make soup probably twice a week, once during the week and then on the weekend. Chicken Soup can be made a 100 different ways. With noodles, with beans, with vegetables and well you have the idea. I love them smell of Chicken Soup simmering on the stove all day. We added home-made croutons to make the Chicken Soup very hearty and filling. …

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Kelp Noodles Stir Fry

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Kelp Noodles

Kelp Noodles

Kelp Noodles

Kelp Noodles are a sea vegetable in the form of a needle. Just thinking about a vegetable that lives in the sea makes me want to eat them. Kelp Noodles are made of Kelp, Sodium alginate (which is sodium salt extracted from a brown seaweed) and water. Kelp Noodles are fat-free, gluten free and super duper low in carbohydrates and calories. They also provide a rich source of trace minerals. The noodles themselves are a different texture. Not slimy at all but sort of rubbery and very crunchy. There is not much of a taste to them. Kelp Noodles can be used in salads, stir fry’s, soups and casseroles. We have been replacing pasta with Kelp Noodles. …

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Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe #Soup

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Chicken Tortilla Soup 

 

This is one of my all time favorite soups to have simmering on the stove in the Winter.  Chicken Tortilla Soup has a distinctive aroma when it is cooking all day.  It is truly a simple soup to make.  You can either use chicken right out of the freezer and  toss it in a pot of water, boil it, then pull it apart.  This gives you some good non salty chicken stock.  You can also take chicken right out of the can.  I boil a lot of my chicken a head of time and dice it up and freeze it so I can pull together different dishes during the week quickly and easily….

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Dr. Oz Recommended Fatigue Fighter Forbidden Rice

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Lettuce Roll Ups

Forbidden Rice Lettuce Roll Ups.

 

Suffer from Fatigue?  Feel tired in the middle of the day?

I watched this episode last month on the Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Oz reveals his favorite all-natural fatigue-fighter: Forbidden Rice! Great at any meal, learn why cooking with this ancient grain is the secret to all-day energy….

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