Healthy Eating - Butternut Squash and Margarita Chicken Recipes

If you haven't heard of The Diet Solution, it is the the number one diet and nutrition program available today. It fully equips you with everything you need to eat yourself to a more healthy existence, in turn losing weight, feeling great, and slowing down the ageing process - amongst much more. It's true, and it's highly effective.

One of the things Isabel De Los Rios, founder of The Diet Solution gives with her eating plan is recipes that are easy, quick, and delicious - and yes, they really are delicious. Real food with real benefits that satisfy hunger, taste buds and deliver pure goodness to your entire body.

Here are just two of the recipes that Isabel offers in her eating plan that she has given me for you all to try out. I have cooked them and served them to my family and received no complaints but did have requests for seconds.

The Diet Solution - Sample Recipes

Butternut Squash Puree with Pecans
-----Courtesy of Isabel De Los Rios

SERVES: 6

Ingredients

- 3 medium butternut squash
- 1-2 tbsp butter (to grease the dish)
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- salt to taste
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- ¾ cup raw pecans, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Cut squash in half; remove and discard seeds.
3. Place squash, cut side down, in a buttered ovenproof baking dish with about ½ inch of water.
4. Bake about 1 hour, until tender when pricked with a fork.
5. After squash is cooked, scoop out flesh into a food processor and blend until smooth.
6. Add eggs and nutmeg, and season to taste with salt.
7. Transfer puree to an ovenproof serving dish. Pour the melted butter over the puree and sprinkle on pecans. Bake for about 30 minutes.

Chicken Margarita
-------Courtesy of Isabel De Los Rios

SERVES: 4

Ingredients

-1 tsp ground cumin
-1 tbsp chili powder
-juice of 3 limes
-10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
-3 tbsp olive oil, divided
-3½ lb chicken pieces
-½ cup tequila, white or gold
-½ cup water
-fresh cilantro leaves (for garnish)

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine cumin, chili powder, lime juice, garlic, and 1 tsp olive oil.
2. Marinate chicken pieces in this marinade for 20 minutes.
3. In heavy skillet, heat remaining olive oil. Brown chicken pieces on all sides.
4. Add marinade, tequila, and water.
5. Cook for approximately 10 minutes.
6. Transfer chicken pieces to a platter.
7. Reduce sauce over high heat until it thickens to a good coating consistency
8. Pour over chicken, and serve garnished with cilantro.

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Healthy Family Meals - Cook Once A Month!

Doesn't the idea of cooking healthy family meals only once a month sound extremely appealing? It sure does to me when I think of how much of my time would be freed up to do other things and how the stresses of time constraints and planning would be present only once a month as opposed to a daily ritual. What if you were cooking family meals only once a month with the result being a freezer full of meals?

Lets take a closer look at this idea, where it came from and the value it has to those of us who spend way too much time in the kitchen making healthy meals and snacks for our family.

The topic of discussion today is with regards to The Frugal Moms Guide To Once A Month Cooking.  This guide is for those of us who take time and energy cooking family meals, ensuring our family gets the nutrients and vitamins they need to strive and be healthy now and in the future.

 Benefits of the Guide

1. Major time saver
2.  Money saver
3.  Freedom giver
4.  Nutritious and delicious
5.  Easy and quick preparations

Contents of the Guide

1.  70 delicious recipes
2.  Cooking forms that help keep cooking sessions organized
3.  Easy to print pages
4.  Complete step by step instructions
5.  An online support community 
5.  Bonus Material
6.  Cost effective
7.  A money back guarantee (although it is doubtful you will need it)

The concept of having healthy family meals at your fingertips on a daily basis, freeing up the time you dedicate to cooking meals on a daily basis is  a God send. You can learn more and read testimonials about this fabulous, well organized and put together phenomenon at:

The Frugal Moms Guide To Once A Month Cooking

A Freezer full of meals

Raw Dog Food Recipe

So you are no longer interested in store bought canine food? Congratulations on your wise decision and welcome to The Kissable Kitchen, where we believe wholeheartedly in healthy homemade raw canine food and in natural pet health care. We hold the same strong value when it comes to humans as well, which is probably why we are a part of Health and Fitness Fairy - where natural living and remedies encompasses humans and pets alike.

The purpose behind a raw food diet is quite simple. Wolves that live in the wild eat raw prey, including the bones and organs. This is how those wolves get their nutrients and studies have shown that those dogs are usually more healthy than house dogs because house dogs are still being fed store bought dog food, which is full of toxins, houses few nutrients, and often times does not contain a full body of healthy nutrients.

Raw Dog Food Recipe
---------The Kissable Kitchen

Ingredients and Instructions

- 4 cups rice (brown or white)
- 9 cups of water (bottled or filtered)
- 1/4 cup oats
- 1 tsp salt

These ingredients you bring to the boil and simmer until the water is absorbed. About 20 minutes. Stir occasionally to keep rice and oats from sticking to the bottom of the pan.

While the above is boiling:

- Raw Meat, including organs (poultry, beef, lamb and organ meats)

- Raw Liver

Raw meats and liver should be ground up.

- Raw Bones (cooked bones are not healthy for your dog but raw bones are).
You can either buy bonemeal powder and add it to the food or you can use the raw bones of the chicken or beef.  Keep them separately from the food and give to your dog when he finishes his meals.  They love it!

The quantity of the meat ingredients depends on the quantity required for your dog's age and breed, and whether or not you are making his food from scratch daily or weekly.  I make one batch that lasts one week.

- 2 cups vegetables (use a variety). Chop finely and steam or boil (just enough water to cover the vegetables just until soft. Reserve some of the water and use to grind up with cooked vegetables. Do not over cook, or you will lose all the nutrients in the vegetables.

- 2 tbls of parsley. 

- 3 tbls corn oil, 3 tbls coconut oil, 3 tbls olive oil

- 2 eggs

-  1/4 tsp ascorbic acid powder with bioflavanoids

- 1/4 tsp fresh garlic (not powder)

- 1/2 tsp flax seeds (ground)

- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

Now combine all of the ingredients mentioned about and mix well together.

Supplement Brew

Add 1tsp of this supplement per 30lbs of weight to your dogs daily meal(s).

- 1 cup Brewers Yeast
- 1 cup wheat germ
- 1/8 cup powdered Kelp

Simply combine together. Keep tightly stored and use throughout the week.

Easy Broil Salmon Steaks

Easy Broil Salmon Steaks
-------Courtesy Isabel De Los Rios, Founder of The Diet Solution

Ingredients

- Salmon steaks
- 2 TBSP melted butter per steak (depending on how many steaks you're doing)
- Minced chives, parsley, and dill (about 1 TBSP for 3-4 TBSP of butter)
- Celtic Sea Salt and Pepper to taste
- Fresh lemon juice
- Lemon wedges

Directions

1. Preheat your broiler (on low)
2. Brush the tops salmon steaks with a touch of melted butter and put in preheated broiler for 5 minutes each side. Depending on the thickness of the steaks.
3. Mix up melted butter, chives, parsley, dill, salt, pepper and lemon juice.
4. Add the above mixture to the steaks about 1 minute before they are completely done.
You will know the steaks are done when they flake easily with a fork.

Serve with lemon wedges and steamed veggies of your choice, cous cous or salad. Another great accompaniment to salmon is Risoni.

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MJ's Lentil Soup Soother

Of the thousands of meals and snacks that I cook, and as easy and simple as this one is, it is my favorite!  I almost feel silly putting this recipe on here because it is so simple, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if someone else has put the exact same ingredients together.  Nevertheless, how can I not share my favorite "To Make" dish and the best soothing soup I have ever come across?!

When you or someone you love is not well, this Lentil Soup Soother is soothing, healthy, and relaxing.  It is a God send when down with cold or flu, suffering from a hang over or just plain old feeling flat. It can be left as is when finished cooking or can be blended to make a finer soup.  It is freezable, fast, easy and smooth on the pallet.

Hope you like it!

MJ's Lentil Soup Soother


Ingredients


- 3 tbls olive oil
- 2 cups chopped brown onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 3-4 garlic cloves
- 4 cups vegetable broth (homemade is always best and more healthy)
- 1 1/4 cup rinsed and drained lentils
- 1 14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes with juice
- 2 pinches of turmeric powder (Add immediately after you remove the pot from the burner)


Directions


1.  Heat oil in heavy saucepan over medium high heat.
2.  Add onions, celery, and garlic and saute until vegetables begin to brown. About 15 minutes.
3.  Add broth, lentils, and tomatoes with juice and bring to the boil.
4.  Reduce heat to low, cover and allow to simmer until lentils are tender.  About 35 minutes.
5.  Add salt and pepper to your liking.
6. At this point you can either enjoy the soup as it is or you can blend it to make it a thin liquid soup by adding more broth as you are blending.

Garnish with celery leaves.

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