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Friday, April 20, 2012

Healthy Recipes that I've Tried Today

I tried more healthy recipes today than I have ever attempted in a day, and they were all pretty good.
The first was a recipe for Chicken Salad made with avocado and cilantro that I got here:


1 1/2-2 cups chicken, cooked and shredded (I use my kitchen aid to shred chicken, it works like a dream!)
Mashed avocado (my chicken was dry, so I used two.  I thought it was a great idea until I calculated the calorie count)
Mayo to taste (I used about 2 tablespoons of Kraft Olive Oil Mayo)
Green Onion
Cilantro
Lime Juice
Salt and Pepper to taste


I just ate it on top of some Romaine lettuce and I loved it. 
The second was a recipe for Ranch dressing that I got here:


1 cup Dannon Oikos plain nonfat greek yogurt
1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch dressing mix (not dip)
1/2 cup 1% milk (I used a cup of milk, it was a bit thick.)

Whisk together in a bow and chill for an hour before serving.  



From what I figured, this dressing has only 19 calories per 2 tablespoons of dressing.  Compare that to your regular ranch.  


The third thing that I did healthy today was make spaghetti for dinner.  Now that may not sound too great, but, my kids ate the pasta, and I had ribbons of zucchini with a yummy meat sauce that I made from Hunt's sugar free pasta sauce.  I thought it was pretty dang good.  I'm not sure if any of this stuff would qualify as "clean eating", but I felt better eating more fruits and vegetables. 

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