Lettuce Wrap Is A Healthy Snack For Your Kids

Lettuce wrap is a healthy snack your kids will love! Easy to prepare and fun to snack on, they are perfect way for your kids to get the nutrition they need. With lettuce wraps, it doesn't really matter what you choose to put in them. Below is just one healthy option for what to put in a lettuce wrap for a creative and healthy snack.

For the Sauce:

• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp rice wine vinegar

For the Filling:

• 2 bags of Pemmican Beef Jerky
• 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 8 ounce (227 mL) can sliced water chestnuts, chopped
• 1 bunch green onions, chopped

Directions:

1. In a large skillet over high heat, combine the two oils and heat. Add the chopped onion. Cook over medium heat until the onions are translucent, about three to five minutes.
2. Add the garlic and cook for another minute, until fragrant.
3. Add the water chestnuts and sauce and mix thoroughly.
4. Add the chopped green onions and mix. Continue to cook over medium heat for about one to two minutes or until the green onions start to wilt a little. Add in the Pemmican beef jerky last.
5. To serve, spoon filling onto a large platter and arrange lettuce leaves either around it or right next to it. The lettuce can be of any type that is able to create a cup for the filling including iceberg, Bibb or butter leaves, even Nappa cabbage.

Try This Healthy And Delicious Black Bean Soup Recipe

A pot of chili is pretty easy to whip together and goes a long way toward enhancing a fall sports tailgating experience or warming up a dreary fall evening. I hate to admit this, but lately, even a pot of chili seems like a lot of work. It's really quite shameful.

And so I returned to this old soup recipe that I think I had clipped from a box of Saltine crackers many years ago. Like maybe 15 years ago. Seriously. I no longer seem to have the original clipping, but the soup still tastes as good as I remember it. And it's really very simple to make for all its heartiness and good flavor. Once you chop and saute and onion and some garlic, the rest is pretty much just pouring beans, broth and salsa out of cans and jars, running a blender for a few seconds, and waiting around for the soup to cook.

This recipe is my go-to black bean soup, partly because it is so delicious, but also because it requires very little effort. There is no shortage of black bean soup recipes out there, however, and you can pick and choose from among the ingredients in as many of them as you want to make your own custom concoction. Just don't neglect the recipes on all those ingredient packages.

Black Bean Soup with Salsa

Ingredient:

• 2 tablespoons canola or vegetable oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt, or to taste
• 4 medium garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 small to medium fresh chile pepper, minced
• 4 ½ cups, or about 3 cans, black beans, drained
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 3 cups prepared salsa
• 2 Tbs lime juice

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onion and salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 8-10 minutes. Add the garlic, cumin, and chile pepper. Cook and stir about 1 minute more.

2. Meanwhile, place about half the beans and 1 cup chicken broth in a blender. Process until smooth. Pour into the cooked onion mixture. Stir in remaining beans, salsa and remaining chicken broth.

3. Bring to a low boil and simmer about 30 minutes or until everything is very tender. Stir in the lime juice. Taste for seasoning and add salt if desired.

An Easy Recipe For Fish Porridge

Recipe for fish porridge. Easy to make at home. Season rice, wash, add lots of water, add some salt, and put them to boil. You may use oats to cook the porridge in place of rice.

Recipe for Fish Porridge

Ingredients:

• 1-2 tbsp rice
• 560ml water
• 1/4 tsp salt (to season rice)
• 1 tsp oil (to season rice)
• 90g cod fish
• 2 slices ginger
• 1 dsp oil
• 1 dsp light soya sauce
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 stalk spring onion
• fried shallots - optional

Method:

1. Wash rice. Season rice with oil and salt for at least half an hour.
2. Add water and put to boil. When boiling, lower fire. Simmer till rice becomes soft and broken.
3. Stir once in a while when simmering. Add salt is necessary.
4. Taste and serve.
5. Slice fish thinly.
6. Shred ginger. Season fish with ginger, light soya sauce, pepper and oil.
7. When porridge is ready, add in fish. Stir to mix well.
8. Simmer for one minute till fish is cooked.
9. Add salt to taste.
10. Sprinkle chopped onion, fried shallots and pepper on cooked porridge before serving.
11. Variation - You may use oats to cook the porridge in place of rice.

There Are Three Healthy And Nutritive Dinner Recipes

If you want to find quick healthy dinner ideas that you enjoy, you need to find your inspiration. An uninspired dinner tastes, after all, uninspired. One of the main reasons that diets fail is because people limit themselves to only a few food choices. There are three perfect dinner recipes you can try:

1. Quinoa & Black Beans

 Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• ¾ cup uncooked quinoa
• 1 ½ cups vegetable broth
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 cup frozen corn kennels
• 2 cans black beans, rinsed and drained
• ½ cup chopped fresh cilantro

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir the onion and garlic and sauté until lightly browned.
2. Mix quinoa into the saucepan and cover with vegetable broth. Season with cumin and cayenne pepper. Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
3. Stir frozen corn into saucepan until 5 minutes heated through. Mix in the black beans and cilantro.

If you are not yet familiar with quinoa, you soon will be. This super-food is one of the most nutritious foods on earth according to Menshealth. Packed with fiber, calcium and protein, this unique, high quality whole grain demanded a recipe that did its nutritional value justice. Quinoa is rich in all essential amino acids. Combined with corn and black beans, this nutritious quinoa recipe is the ultimate source of fiber, protein, and, most importantly, deliciousness.

2. Coconut Oatmeal

Ingredients:

• 3 ½ cups plain or vanilla soy milk
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 cups rolled oats
• ¼ cup pure maple syrup
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1/3 cup dried cranberries
• 1/3 cup sweetened flaked coconut
• 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 container (8 oz) plain yogurt
• 3 tablespoons honey

Directions:

Pour the milk and salt in to a saucepan, and bring to a boil. Stir in the oats, raisins, and cranberries. Return to a boil, then reduce heat to medium. Cook for 5 minutes. Stir in walnuts and coconut, and let stand until it reaches desired thickness. Spoon into serving bowls and top with yogurt and honey, if desired.

Although more of a breakfast meal, I will advocate for oatmeal every chance I get. This recipe literally has it all, from the complex carbs, fiber, and b-vitamins found in oatmeal, to the protein content in soymilk, almonds, and yogurt, it is impossible for me to list all that you will take out of this meal. Incidentally, this would be the ultimate workout food, if you were to look at my blog about the most effective workout snacks you would find that this has 3 of them; oatmeal, almonds, and yogurt. Do your body and your taste buds a favor and try this delicious recipe.

3. Lentil Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 large onions, cubed
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 3 carrots, diced
• 2 stalks celery
• 3 ½ cups crushed tomatoes
• 1 ½ cups lentils – soaked, rinsed, drained
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• ¾ cup white wine
• 2 bay leaves
• 7 cups chicken stock
• 1 sprig fresh parsley, chopped
• ½ teaspoon fresh paprika
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. In a large stockpot, sauté the onions until they are glossy. Stir in garlic, paprika, celery, carrots, and sauté for 10 minutes.
2. Once the vegetable have sautéed for 10 minutes, stir in chicken stock, lentils, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Stir well, then add the wine and bring the mixture to a boil. Slowly reduce the heat, then cook for one hour on low to medium heat; or until the lentils are tender.
3. Sprinkle the soup with parsley and parmesan before serving.

A fantastic source of protein, fiber, b-vitamins, iron, thiamine, and complex carbohydrates, lentils are another food that I just refuse to stop talking about. Lentils are listed as 1 of the 5 healthiest foods by Health Magazine and it is easy to see why. Like all of the other featured foods in this blog, it really does have it all. Lentils are also very affordable, and will leave you with a fatter wallet and slimmer waste. Throw in healthy vegetables like vitamin A rich carrots, and vitamin K infused celery, spice them up with calorie free products like paprika and pepper and you have yourself some delicious nutrition.