Tues. July 24th

Indian Spiced Lentils with Chicken & Carrots for Dinner!

Daily Tidbit:  Lentils build your iron stores!   Check out the link below which discusses Lentils the other 11 foods on Shape Magazine's "12 best power foods for women" list:

www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/12-best-power-foods-women?page=3

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Breakfast: Oatmeal with Walnuts & Blueberries

½ cup plain Oatmeal (cooked with Fat Free Milk, in microwave)

2 tbsp of plain Walnuts

1/2 cup Blueberries

2-3 shakes Plain Cinnamon on top

5 oz. glass of OJ

Regular Coffee, black

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Lunch: Soup & Sandwich
2 cups of Curry Cauliflower Carrot Soup, topped with crumbles from 3 Corn Tortilla Chips

Roasted Red Pepper Bean Dip on a Medium Whole Wheat Wrap

Water

My kids gave me the idea for the Corn Chip crumbles on the soup (a nice sweet crunchy addition!) when I saw them dipping their Corn Chips into this soup, as well as their White Beans and Cheddar Cheese slices!

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Snack:  1/4 cup dry roasted, lightly salted Peanuts, Fat Free Milk

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Dinner:  Indian Spiced Lentils with Chicken
1 bowl (2 cups of the Lentils) with 2 Chicken Breast Tenders with 1 cup of boiled Carrots chopped and added before serving
Water with Lemon

My husband loves Lentils, so I just searched for a slow cooker recipe using them and came across this recipe at the now famous "A Year of Slow Cooking" Blog.

http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2009/10/indian-spiced-lentils-with-chicken-slow.html

 

My husband loved this dish.  I felt good about all the iron and fiber and it certainly was filling!

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Dessert:  Gala Apple

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