Smart Snacking

This is what i ate today (mid-day) over the course of several hours. It's actually best to have small snacks periodically than to stuff yourself in one sitting so that you can stay more satisfied and prevent drops and spikes in your blood sugar. For my first lunch snack I ate the sweet berry couscous. Then about an hour later, I enjoyed an orange spinach salad with oranges and orange vinaigrette. Then almost two hours later I prepared the lentils with rosemary and garlic but added organic quinoa. The coolest part about Quinoa (I think) is how the sprout germs out of the quinoa seed once it's fully cooked.

AND: 1 cup cooked quinoa has:

•  155 calories
•  30 g carbohydrate
•  3 g fat
•  3 g dietary fiber 
•  5.5 g protein

It's delicious and you can easily add it to all sorts of foods. Quinoa is also gluten & wheat free and is a GREAT source of magnesium, manganese, and phosphorus.

The lentil soup recipe was exactly like the lentil salad I posted earlier except I added about a cup of chicken broth to make it a soup.

*the recipes for the first 2 pics are in older posts as well*