How to eat delicious and healthy!

After not writing for a few days I decided to give my readers an easy recipe.

First let me suggest something about meat. Nutritiondata.com shows us that meats such as turkey and chicken are much better for us than any sort of red meat. There are a million different ways to make those two things (tacos, salad, grilled, broiled, baked, barbecue, teriyaki..etc)so that you are less likely to notice that you eat a lot of it.

My favorite thing to do is put rubs on my chicken. Fresh and Easy (a local store near me) has a great white meat rub that I put on a lot of my chicken. It gives it tons of flavor and it makes it easy to eat with another seasoning, or even just on its own. Rubs also add almost no calories. They tend to just be herbs and spices which are diet friendly.

That being said, here is an easy recipe for dinner, that will fill you up and has tons of flavor. If you don't like any of the vegetables I put in feel free to exclude them, or even add different vegetables you like better.

Chipotle Ranch Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
-Bell Pepper (any color, I chose red)
-onions
-romaine lettuce
-tomato
-Chicken
-chipotle ranch dressing (El Torito brand- you can buy it in your local supermarket. If you don't like that replace it with whatever dressing you'd rather use)

Directions:

- Chop up and mix all the vegetables on a plate. (The nice thing about vegetables is you can put as much as you want-they are low in calorie and help fill you up.)

- Grill the chicken (on an indoor or outdoor grill. If you don't want to do that you can cook it in a plan with a teaspoon of olive oil or pan on the bottom to help it from sticking and burning)

- Cut the chicken into slices and place on top of your salad

- Place the dressing on top

and Ta-Da. It is as simple as that.

One more tip:

Dressing can be fattening, sodium filled and a waste of precious calories and fat content. Although every once in a while enjoying a more fattening dressing can be good, try not to only eat salads that are drenched in dressing. If you think you won't enjoy it, you will. It might take a bit of getting used to so that you don't have as much dressing on your salad, but if each time you put just a bit less, pretty soon you won't need much dressing at all to still taste delicious. Also, there are things (Balsamic Vinegar and Oil being the main one)that you can put on your salad that taste great and don't add on too many grams of fat. Take a look at those bottles, you will be surprised at the nutrition in just two tablespoons of your favorite dressing.

Another really good option is those spray dressings. They have tons of flavor and they actually do a great job of dousing all the parts of your salad and a very low cost of calories. Wishbone sells a few different types including ranch (which is 2 calories per spray) and isn't that hard to get taste on every single morsel of your salad.

That's all for now!

The Health Guru