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Who wants to cook on a hot summer night??? Here’s the perfect dish…………..

1 ½ Cup Quinoa Cooked
16 ounces Roasted Chicken, cut into chunks
½ Red Onion Chopped
2 Red Peppers Chopped
3 Stalks Organic Celery Sliced
¼ Cup Organic Olive Oil
Juice of ½ Lemon
Sea Salt & Pepper to taste

Make sure the quinoa is cooled before preparing the salad.

Assemble ingredients in a decorative glass bowl, dress with olive oil and lemon & season and you’ve got a delicious and healthy salad!!!

I usually make a double batch of quinoa and use one serving for dinner and the other I refrigerate and use for lunch the next day – chicken salad.

Yes I eat salads, but its not a wimpy salad with lettuce and vinegar. Heck no!!!! That’s NOT enough fuel to keep the body burning fat. With a meal like that your body believes you are starving yourself and guess what it does??? It holds onto FAT. And none of us wants that – sooo a “Real” salad looks something like this…………

- 3 cups of Organic Romaine, mixed greens, spinach (anything but iceberg it has no nutritional value)
- 4-5 ounces of Organic Free Range Grilled/Steamed Chicken
- Broccoli and or Steamed String Beans, Peppers, Cucumbers, Mushrooms
- 2 Tbsps of Crumbled Feta Cheese
- 2-3 Olives
- Full Fat Dressing – Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice, Organic Sea Salt and Fresh Black Pepper. Or a Sugar Free/Preservative Free Full Fat Dressing.

Note that I didn’t provide measurements for the veggies. The more veggies the better. Go for a rainbow of color. I used 3 cups of lettuce as a guide. Remember your plate needs to be ¼ lean protein, ¾ veggies, and a dash of fat.

Here are some other Lean protein choices:

- Wild Salmon, White Fish, Canned Tunafish in water, Hormone Free, Grass Fed Beef.

Ladies I can’t stress enough the importance of the 4-5 ounces of lean protein. It is a must!!!! Many woman have a hard time getting in the protein and I just want to let you know without a minimum of 4 ounces you are never going to get the fat weight off. And don’t forget a full fat dressing – I know because I’ve been there. Trust me on this☺

(Photo courtesy of Lepiaf Flickr)

This is certainly one piece of information I am thrilled to share with you!!!!!

Back in the day, I like many of you, would order my salad and only use vinegar no oil, or a low calorie fat free dressing. Yuck!!! It was tough and I rarely enjoyed eating salad. Read the rest of this entry »