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Faro and Vegetable Salad Recipe

17 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by in Cooking, Grains, Healthy, Kale, Lunch, Meatless Monday, Salad

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Do you love whole grains?  Are you a fan of bringing in daily lunch but making it only once a week?  Are you tired of pb&j sandwiches?  Then this Faro and Vegetable Salad just might be what you will want to make and pack up for your daily lunch this week.  Packed with nutrients and vitamins, it’s colorful, cheerful, crunchy, and delicious.  The zesty lemon-mustard dressing is light and can be kept separate from the salad, to be added right before serving.  Don’t have faro on hand?  This will work equally well with brown rice and wheat berries.

Faro and Vegetable Salad

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Ingredients

1 cup faro
2 cups water
1 bunch kale, torn into pieces
1 yellow bell pepper, diced
1/2 English cucumber, diced
2 large tomatoes, diced
2 carrots, shredded
2 tablespoons dill, chopped

Dressing:
1 lime, juiced
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt & pepper to taste

Faro and Vegetable Salad

Directions

1.  Add faro and water to a medium saucepan over medium high heat.  Cover and bring to a boil.  Reduce the heat to low and simmer faro until tender, about 15 minutes.  Add in kale, cover, and let sit for a few minutes for kale to wilt.

2.  Combine cooled faro and kale with the remaining vegetables.

3.  Whisk together dressing and pour over faro and vegetables.  Toss gently.

Pack this lunch daily and you’ll be happily fed.  Want to mix it up?  Add grilled chicken, tofu, or shrimp along with the salad.  Love cheese?  Add crumbled feta cheese to your daily lunch.  As the salad sits in the fridge, the vegetables take on somewhat of a marinated quality and the faro soaks up the dressing nicely.

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Homemade Juice ~ Live Healthy

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

Posted by in Allrecipes.com, Healthy, juice, Kale

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Today is the last day to enter my Suja Juice 3-day cleanse giveaway.  I wish luck to all of you – you have until 5pm Pacific Time to enter.

While I sadly can’t give the juice to everyone who has entered, I would love to share with you a few of the homemade juices videos I styled for Allrecipes.com.  These are simple to prepare and will give you a wonderful boost of energy and vitamins.

Tropical Carrot Apple Juice

Carrot and Orange Juice 

Healthy Green Juice 

Be sure to check out the rest of the videos for homemade juice here.

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Suja Juice 3-day Cleanse Giveaway

02 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by in Healthy, juice, Kale

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SUJA Juice Cleanse Giveaway

Happy 2014!  As the year rolls in, so are the resolutions for the happiness, healthy eating, more exercising, less stressing and more sleep.  Have you made your resolutions yet?  I personally tend to avoid making resolutions, but fully support getting more hours of sleep, eating a few more pieces of fruit and vegetables, and smiling more in the New Year.

If you are short on fruits and vegetables in your daily diet and wanted to start the year with clean eating, you are in for a treat.  After personally trying a 3-day Suja Juice Cleanse myself, I will be giving away a 3-day Juice Cleanse to one of you!

SUJA Juice Cleanse Giveaway

The 18 bottles of juice arrived at my door packaged as a present.  Each of the 16-oz bottle is dairy, soy and gluten-free, non-GMO, Vegan, and Kosher and Organic certified.  I was off to a good start!

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The box included full insturctions for the Juice Cleanse as well as complete description and ingredients for each of the juices, the daily schedule of juicing and helpful tips and suggestions.

One of the things that makes Suja Juices stand out is the fact that they undergo High Pressure Pascalization instead of heat.  This process enables the juice to stay safe, yet raw, keeping the most essential vitamins from fruits and vegetables.

Truth be told, I was both excited and anxious to start on the cleanse.  Three days without solid food?  Could I really do it? Would the juice taste good?  Would I be hungry?  What about headaches?

I began by labeling the juice bottles in order of the consumption and by meal (breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, dessert).  Just looking at the amount of juice I was to consume daily, I felt as though hunger will not be an issue.  And I was right.  Honestly, I did not feel hungry.  I did though miss the act of chewing food and experiencing different textures.

Every single one of the juices were delicious, in their own right.  The Glow, Fiji and Green Supreme, packed with  kale, spinach and celery, tasted healthy and gave me a boost of energy.  Sweetened with apples, they had a pleasant, light taste.

My favorite two juices, by far, were the Purify and Fuel.  Purify, with a combination of carrot, apple, celery, beet and lemon was a gorgeous crimson red color and slighter thicker than the other juices, giving it a pleasant mouthfeel.

SUJA Juice Cleanse Giveaway

The Fuel juice, my favorite color – orange, packed with carrots, oranges, apple, pineapple, lemon and turmeric was bright as sunshine.  I would be happy to drink a bottle of it on daily basis!

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Results?  I battled with mild cases of headache throughout the 3 days, though the symptoms did decrease at the end.  Drinking more water and getting a few extra hours of sleep helped me to feel better.  So did the idea of eating solid food in the near future.  By the end of the cleanse, I honestly succumbed to the desire, and ended the cleanse one meal earlier.

What I learned is that I don’t require as much food to be satisfied and not-hungry as I thought I might.  I also learned how different all juices taste and how truly delicious Suja juices are.  Having juiced myself in the past, I have also come to appreciate the convenience of the Suja juices.  Come already packaged and ready to consume, there was no need for grocery shopping, cleaning fruits and vegetables and most importantly cleaning the juices.

Are you ready to juice?

For your chance to win the 3-day Suja Juice Cleanse giveaway please do the following, and leave a comment on this post when finished.

I will announce the winner on January 15th.

1. Leave a comment on this post why you would like to win the giveaway and what is your favorite juice.

2. Follow and share the link to the post on Facebook, tagging Snacking in the Kitchen and Suja Juice .

3. Follow and share the link to the post on twitter, tagging @snackingkitchen @sujajuice.

4.  Follow on instagram @snackingkitchen @lovesuja

The participants must be a legal resident of the United States with a valid address, no PO box please.  The juice cleanse will be shipped directly to you.

Good luck!

Disclaimer: I have received the 3-day Suja Juice cleanse at no cost and was not compensated for this post.  All opinions stated in the post are my own. I was under no obligation to write the post.

Clean Your Body SuperFood Morning Shake Recipe

20 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by in Drink, Gluten Free, Healthy, Kale, Recipe, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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Oh boy!  For the next eleven days I will be doing a cleansing eating plan – a combination of gluten-free and vegan, no caffeine, no alcohol, no chocolate!  I will have to give in for 2 meals to make exceptions, but for the rest 31 meals plus snacks, I will stick to the plan.

This morning, I started with a Clean Your Body SuperFood Shake: Kale, Almond Milk, Ice.
Hmmm, it’s green!

Clean kale, and tear the leaves into small pieces.  I used about a cup and half of this vitamin-packed green.  Place at the bottom of a blender (how I wish I had a Vitamix for this!).  Add a cup of non-sweetened almond milk, and a cup of ice.  Tightly secure on the lid for the blender and blend.

It’s a combination of a shake and an icee.  I will try adding herbs and spices tomorrow, but for now, I’m off to slurping.

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Raw Kale Rainbow Slaw Salad Recipe

07 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by in Cooking, Kale, Lunch, Recipe, Salad, Vegetarian

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I was watching “Modern Family” the other day (it just happens to be one of my favorite shows and a laugh-out-loud highlight of the week).  In the middle of the show kale enters the picture!  That’s right, the green, leafy, vitamin-packed star of the produce department was featured on the sitcom.  Now, how often does that happen?  I think it’s pretty fantastic.

For a long time the only way I would eat kale would be cooked, steamed, or quickly sautéed.  It often would play a role in a soup or a stir fry.  Somehow I never thought of eating kale raw, at least not until I tried this healthy, colorful, and most important delicious and good-for-you Kale Slaw recipe from Whole Foods Market.  The recipe uses Lacinato kale, also know as Dinosaur kale – wouldn’t your kids love the fact that they are eating something called Dinosaur Kale?!  Give it a try.

Ingredients

1 bunch lacinato (a.k.a. dinosaur) kale, thick stems removed and leaves thinly sliced
4 cups shredded red cabbage (about 1 small head, quartered and cored)
2 navel oranges or Clementines, peeled and segmented
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
1 large red bell pepper, cored, seeded and thinly sliced
1/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice (from about 1 small orange)
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Method

In a large bowl, combine kale, cabbage, orange segments, onion, bell pepper and sunflower seeds.

In a small bowl, whisk together mustard, orange juice, vinegar and pepper. Pour over the kale mixture and toss to coat. Serve immediately or refrigerate for up to 2 days.