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Warm Chicken and Beet Salad

We’ve all heard it before: salads are awesome for you, but don’t they get a little bit…boring? This salad mixes it up by replacing your standard leafy greens with a base of beets, and has enough nutritious goodness to keep you going until your next meal. Here’s how you make it:

Ingredients:

1 cup sliced beets

1 grilled chicken breast, cubed (I used leftover chicken from my shawarma salad)

1/4 cup chickpeas

1-2 tbsp feta cheese

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar

1 slice lemon

To Make:

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl, add the balsamic vinegar, and a squirt of lemon juice. Enjoy! :)

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Skinny Italian Turkey Meatballs

What do you do when you have a free Sunday afternoon and two health-minded people? Well for us the only logical thing to do was to make an enormous batch of Italian turkey meatballs! These ones are super duper healthy, and while they take a little bit of time and effort to make, they are definitely worth it. You can find the recipe here. Also, I find that I sometimes struggle with maintaining my healthy lifestyle while cooking things that are “guy friendly”…this one clearly gets the male stamp of approval:

Enjoy! :)

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Egg Stuffed Avocado

This morning I got a little crafty in the kitchen, and decided to try something new by baking an egg inside of an avocado half. Not only are these both super foods (avocados are full of healthy energizing fats – yes, I said healthy fats, and eggs are loaded with protein), but also it tasted absolutely delicious! I know I say that about a lot of things that I cook, but I seriously think I may have started singing after I took my first bite of this. This breakfast is super easy to make: just cut an avocado in half, take out the pit (you might need to scoop out a bit more depending on the size of your egg), pour a raw egg in, and add some seasoning if you’d like (I used a cajun spice). Then just throw it in the oven until the egg is cooked through and enjoy!

Also, a petite fitness update: For those of you that are interested, I am still pushing through on my half marathon training (although admittedly it is getting tougher with this cold weather!), and I started doing some work outs from p90x for strength training last week which are incredible. I’m really using January as a month to be hard core about my fitness and nutrition. I hope this inspires some of you to do the same! I’ll post more details including a calendar so you can work out along with me if you’d like soon. (:

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