Salsa & A Healthy Dinner By Bri

Well, here's my first post. I am going to be posting a lot of what I eat over the next couple weeks to give everyone ideas on how to make delicious foods without using oil and sugar. That might seem impossible, but trust me when I say it's not, and the food is still fabulous. You don't need oil and you don't need sugar. The more you eliminate oils and sugar--"the non-essentials"--the healthy you will be. So, to start off I'm going to give you a great salsa recipe and a full dinner recipe. 

Start with your favorite veggies for Salsa. I like: tomatoes,
green peppers, red onion, white onion, and jalapenos.
I also use lime.

Add half of your veggies in a blender. Leave the other
half for later. 

Next add some lime juice, lemon juice, garlic salt, and season salt
(make sure that the season salt doesn't have any sugar in it)

Blend it together until it is puree.

Pour the puree into a separate bowl, add the rest of the veggies,
and enjoy!

Now, what do you do with it? I love to eat it with Melba Snacks (you'll find this in the cracker aisle), or with just a spoon (absolutely delicious), on top of chili or chicken or egg whites. If I'm having a type of meat that doesn't go with it, and I've already had too many carbs for the day, then I'll put it in a lettuce leaf and eat it as a side dish or my "salad."

Healthy Dinner Idea #1
Curry Chicken, Cucumber Salad, and Strawberries

Cucumber Salad: Cut up your cucumbers, some red onion, add a little
apple cider vinegar to the bowl, put it in the freezer for 20 minutes and serve chilled.
If you like apple cider vinegar you'll love this!
You can also make a cucumber salt with some salt and lemon juice.

Cut up three/four strawberries, eat them plain, or add a bit of Stevia.
Stevia is great, and doesn't taste odd like most "non" sugars.
Anytime you can replace sugar with Stevia DO IT!

Curry Chicken: No oil, no coconut juice, no sugar.
Just add water, chicken, TBSP of lowfat milk, an 3/4 of a container of curry seasoning,
and let it simmer in a crock pot on low for 5-6 hours.
Once the chicken is tender and falling apart, take it out, put it on the stove
in a non-stick pan, add a little more water and 1/8 of the curry seasoning and about a tsp
of red chili seasoning. In a separate pan put in green peppers and onions. Add the rest
of the curry seasoning, a little water, and a pinch of the chili seasoning.
Let them boil/cook in the seasoning until soft.
Continue to brown the chicken a bit in the new seasoning.
When everything is just how you want it, mix them together and serve.

And enjoy a healthy and balanced meal free of oils, sugars, and non-essentials.