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Feel free to forward and share this email with your friends and family. --------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue-- -Dear Readers -Salad Spin by Leanne Ely -Cooking with Kids: Enchilasagna by Leanne Ely -Healthy-Foods Resource -Hip Tip --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Readers, Are you trying to eat more salad? Are all the different things to add confusing to you? Want some quick tips to make it easy to understand? Keep reading and you'll learn a few things to get you started in the right direction. Then, be sure and click on the link to view my latest video. These are packed full of fun information to help you get dinner to the table! You won't want to miss this article or video! After breakfast comes lunch and then, it's dinner time. Do you know what's for dinner tonight? Find out with my SAVING DINNER BOOKS HERE To Your Health-- Leanne Feel free to forward Healthy-Foods to all your friends and family and remember, if dinner is a hassle at your house, there's a solution: www.savingdinner.com Do you like Healthy-Foods? Did you know we publish not one, but FIVE newsletters each week? Sign up for the Daily Dish and get them all plus a free sample Menu-Mailer! www.savingdinner.com Salad Spin by Leanne Ely I get a lot of email from readers (feel free to email your questions-I may include it in an upcoming article, Dinner Diva at Saving Dinner dot com) and this one warrants an article. I hate to trouble you with a silly salad question, but I've never eaten salad on a regular basis before joining Flylady, and I don't know who else I can ask! I have been buying three heads of lettuce a week, tearing them up and storing them in plastic baggies to eat a little bit at a time (instead of buying those prepackaged salad bags, which are expensive). But should I wash the greens before they go in the bag? They stay really wet when I do this, and I'm not sure if this helps preserve them, or it might help turn them wilted and slimy. Thanks for your advice. We've been eating SO much better since we found you! -Susan Well Susan, let me help you out. I don't have much of an opinion on kitschy kitchen gadgets, but here's one gadget that you should make a point of getting: a salad spinner! I am a big believer in eating salads, but it's no fun eating mushy salads. The spinner makes the diff! I have noticed that when I'm eating salads on a regular basis, my skin is nicer, my weight is better kept under control and I just plain feel better. As a matter of fact, if you eat one salad a day with a meal, you can lose up to 15 pounds a year. It's a matter of volume and nutrition-the more you fill up on better, more voluminous healthier foods, the weight comes off (as long as you're not overdoing it). I serve salad almost every time we eat dinner at my house. I also throw a bowl of those baby carrots on the table to pass around. As a rule, we don't eat enough raw stuff and salads are one delicious way to make that happen. Here are some hints for making a healthy, nutritious salad: A good rule of thumb for building a good salad should be COLOR. Color is a great indicator of what's ahead: good nutrition or near-empty calories. The more vibrant the color, the healthier it is. Take a look at Iceberg lettuce. It's pale green and white. The iceberg lettuce's value is mostly the water it carries. Fiber is minimal and nutrition almost non-existent. This is not the basis for a good, healthy and nutritious salad. The first place to start is with GREEN. Green like spinach, salad bowl or romaine lettuces--all wonderful examples of what green should look like. The color is there and so is the nutrition. Next, look for RED. Tomatoes come to mind. Vine ripened and full of vitamin C, tomatoes also contain the important phytochemical lypocene that helps fight cancer. ORANGE or YELLOW? How about some colorful bell pepper or (when in season) summer squash? Carrots are fantastic sources for beta-carotene, a pre-vitamin for vitamin A. Beta carotene has so many important functions, but the best part about beta-carotene is that it will convert into only as much vitamin A as the body needs so there's no worry about taking in too much. You know what happens if you have too much beta-carotene? You turn orange! My son was orange for the first and second year of his life--he LOVED sweet potatoes. This is all common sense nutrition here, but the point is to get you thinking next time you're meandering your way through the produce section at the grocery store. Think in vivid, living color--you NEED the nutrition and so does your salad! Love, Leanne We have some great salad recipes, take a look here! --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cooking with Kids: Enchilasagna by Leanne Ely http://www.savingdinner.tv/featured/cooking-with-kids-enchilasagna/ A cross between enchiladas and lasagna! This dish is sure to please. Be sure to check out our Kids Cooking Club for MORE great ideas! --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Healthy Foods Resource What is a "Morphing Menu"? Well, I'm glad you asked! The basic idea is you do 105% of the work for 200% of the results! Sound good? I thought so! We have a few different kinds: With the Now and Later menus, you assemble a freezer meal at the same time as you're making dinner. (I mean, you already have your hands contaminated with raw chicken, why not put some in a baggie?) For Cook Once Eat Twice you prepare double the meat, eat half, and re-invent the leftovers into a new dish. AND the Casserole to Soup Menus feature pairs of recipes (one casserole, one soup) which contain at least two of the same ingredients so you can prepare them together and be ready for TWO dinners in no time flat! Sound confusing? It really isn't once you get in there. You KNOW I've got the shopping list and detailed instructions in each menu. Give it a try... I think you'll like it! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hip Tips Do you have a nifty, healthy foods tip you'd like to share? Maybe a comment you want to share? Send it in with your name and state (or country) and we'll use it in a future Healthy-Foods issue! We sure do love the spicy, veggie, beefie soup from the paleo primer! Now, that's my kind of veggie soup! Making it for the 2nd time tonight. I prep it all in on the stove, then throw in the slow cooker to finish. Stephanie

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