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Mild Turkey Chili

Hey folks how are you today? I hoped you enjoyed the chicken salad. My wife enjoyed it as well and I repeated the recipe the subsequent evening with an added ingredient, broccoli. I used the food processor to chop it finely and added it to the original recipe. It was just as quick, nutritious and delicious. In fact the time was reduced to 45 minutes by doing the vegetable prep work while the chicken breast was in the oven. Again my wife really did enjoy the meal and took it for lunch the following day.

Today's recipe is for a vibrant turkey chili without the heat. 

Ingredients Required:

1. 2 lb. lean ground turkey
2. 1 40 oz.can of kidney beans
3. 2 28 oz. cans of diced tomato
4. 1 diced onion
5. 2 diced green peppers
6. 1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin
7. 1/2 teaspoon of ground chili powder
8. 1 teaspoon of diced garlic
9. 1/2 tsp.  of red pepper
10. 1 tbsp. of virgin olive oil

Cooking Instructions:

1.  Place the olive oil in your stock pot and pre heat on stove top. Stir in the turkey meat in the pot once the oil is heated, cover and allow to cook until well done. 15-20 mins.
2. Dice the onions and green peppers and place to the side.
3. Once the meat is done add the onions, green peppers, garlic, cumin, chili powder and ground red pepper. Reduce heat to a simmer and stir for about 3 - 5 minutes. 
4. Add the diced tomatoes  and kidney beans. Increase the heat to a medium simmer (bubbling gently), stir and cover for about 10 - 15 mins
5. Total time 40 mins

Grab a bowl and enjoy this quick, nutritious and delicious meal.

Enhancing your wellness experience: 

This a very healthy meal as it is but if you really want to take it up notch you may want to add a couple of steps to the process.

• Use  6-8 fresh tomatoes locally grown and dice them yourself. 
• Buy packaged dried beans and soak them overnight. Pour the water off . Add fresh water to your stock pot and cook the beans at medium to high heat on your stove top. Make certain it does not boil over. Once done strain the beans and add them at the appropriate time.

Adding these steps will add some time to your preparation process but it also eliminates the chemicals used in most process foods. Two of which are added salt and sugars that help preserve the beans and tomatoes thus expanding their shelf life and your chances to develop a chronic illness.

 Whenever you are shopping remember the game for them is profiteering not your health. Read the packages and do a little research on Google about the ingredients. Most of it can not be classified as food.

Nutritional Value

• High Protein

• High Fiber

• Low Fat

• Complex Carbohydrates

QUICK NUTRITIOUS DELICIOUS and

HEALTHY

Crunchy Chicken Salad

Hi there folks, I am going to share a simple, nutritious recipe that is delicious and will assist you with your health and fitness goals. Since I know many of you are busy and do not always have a lot of time to cook your own meals, I am going to always try to provide you Quick, Nutritious and Delicious recipes.

So lets get started 

Ingredients:

4      stalks celery

1      bell pepper

1      sweet onion

2      full size carrots

1      cup of mayonnaise

1/2   teaspoon red pepper

1/2   teaspoon of Lawry's season salt

2      chicken breast

         bay leaves

Cooking Instructions (60 minutes)

1. Heat oven to 350
2. Season thawed chicken to taste and place in oven pan on top of the bay leaves and place in oven for 20 minutes each side. Keeping the bay leaves beneath the breast when turning.
3. Finely chop the onions, bell peppers and celery and place in large bowl. Make sure you will have room to stir without spillage over the sides.
4. Shave the carrots well and cut them in quarters. Place the quarters in a food processor and turn on high until minced.
5. Add the carrots to the bowl along with the mayonnaise, red pepper and season salt and mix well.
6. Once the chicken is cooked let it cool. and chop the breast into cubes. Add to the bowl and mix well. 
7. Eat and Enjoy

So there it is folks, protein (60g) , which is essential to your health as it increases your body's ability to sustain or grow muscle. Muscle of course is essential to stability and increases your ability to burn more fat.

 In addition there are a variety of healthy carbohydrates that also contain fiber. This will help your digestion as well as keep you feeling satisfied longer thus decreasing the urge to snack. 

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/good-carbs-vs-bad-carbs?page=2

Red pepper is a thermogenic and believed to increase the body's ability to burn fat. Click on the link.   

http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3477701/

And remember 80% of the journey to better health begins in your shopping cart and continues in your kitchen. Put the boxes of ingredients back on the shelves and stay on the perimeter of the supermarket and you will see changes on how you feel and look.

DOESN'T SEEM LIKE

WORK!!!

I am back writing again and hope to recapture my audience. This is what I love to do and I am excited to re-establish my blog and share information with the world. Actually being able to reach across the planet and share your thoughts and knowledge with  others and receive feedback for intelligent discourse is not lost on me. You see unlike many of you younger folks who use the Internet as an essential tool of your life, I grew up when a color television and a transistor radio were considered hi tech. So my appreciation for the worldwide reach of the Internet is always on the surface of my mind.

Health is important to me for many reasons but as I have said earlier, I am the last living male on my dad's side of the family and many of his siblings died very young including my dad and his mother. My mom is now 83 and healthy, mobile and energetic. She actually delivers food and holy communion to the elderly. Her siblings lived long lives as well and she had a cousin who lived to 104 years old and outlived all of her children. So my genetics may lean more towards hers but in case they do not I work at staying healthy via food and exercise.

Now I am expanding my vision to include an additional lifestyle changes that I hope will increase my chances to live a long and healthy life. So in the spirit of full disclosure I am working at stop smoking. Listen to me I started this habit many years ago and I am testament to the fact that it is probably one of the most addictive habits in this world but legal. Go figure! The difference this time is I am not trying to stop I am stopping. No pills, patches or nicotine replacement because these do not work for me. Patches equal night mares as do the pills. The nicotine gum irritates my throat to the point it becomes hard to breathe.

My process will be to reduce the amount smoked by decreasing the pressure to do so. I am keeping the milestones small by using 5 minute increments of time. So its simple, if I get the urge I have to add a minimum of 5 minutes before I actually light up. Yes I am using procrastination to create a positive for myself. Procrastination leads to more procrastination. And yes it seems to be working as 5 minutes turns into 15 that turns into 30 and yes even hours.

For the first time I am confident I will be able to do this without the pressure and disappointment that comes with momentary failure. Since it is easy to add 5 minutes I have removed that emotion from the equation which allows me to keep going. This lesson also gives me some insight about many who are seeking to become healthier and how those momentary failures negatively impact our success. It seems when we experience them it is easier to give up and quit. 

So I encourage you to join me with whatever your goal is.Whether it is weight loss, smoking drugs, gaining weight or a bad relationship. We can do this together and provide support for each other and succeed together. You are not alone and neither am I. Set your goal and reduce the milestones to things you know you can do. You may increase them later if you desire. This can be applied to anyone and anything you are attempting to achieve since you can tailor it to your personal make up and situation. Let us know how you are doing via the comment section or just sit back read the updates. I have included a link to a motivational video below.

So Get Up Get Moving cause CHIT CHAT WON'T BURN FAT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfV7kzxxmE