Easy Strawberry Spinach Salad

Ingredients

6 cups fresh spinach, washed and dried
2 cups strawberries, sliced
½ cup sliced toasted almonds
To toast almonds

Directions

1. Preheating oven to 350° F.
2. Spread nuts in one layer on ungreased baking pan.
3. Bake 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden brown.
4. Let cool.

Mix spinach, strawberries and toasted almonds. Serve with Toasted Sesame Red Fusion dressing

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Basic Fruit Smoothie Recipe

Fruit smoothies were invented as a healthy alternative to the milkshake. While very popular because of their taste, smoothies are also very healthy. Most smoothies are high in fiber, low in fat, and packed with vitamins and antioxidants.

While there are hundreds of ways to make a fruit smoothie, with varying tastes and textures, here are the basics:

First, chopped fruit (one type of fruit or several) is the smoothie's fruit base. Great fruits to use are bananas, berries (including strawberries and blackberries), pineapples, mangos, and/or kiwi.

Second, add an ingredient to the smoothie as a thickener. Good choices include low-fat yogurt, low-fat frozen yogurt, a can of frozen juice concentrate, frozen fruit, or a cup of ice. How much of these ingredients you will use depends on how thick you want your smoothie to be.

Third, you will need a liquid so everything will blend smoothly. You can add skim milk, soy milk, fruit juice or even water (some smoothie makers use flavored water). Start with 1/4 cup and then add more if needed.

An extra option to enhance flavor is to add a sweetner, cinnamon or vanilla extract.

A good rule of thumb for the ingredient measurements is to make your smoothie with 1 part fruit, 1 part liquid, and 2 parts thick base. For example: for 1 smoothie (a little over 1 cup), you would use 1/4 cup fruit, 1/4 cup liquid, and 1/2 cup thickener. But these measurements are not set in stone. The great thing about smoothies is you can experiment to get exactly what you want!

Directions
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Serve immediately or refrigerate. You may want to serve in a chilled glass if serving immediately.

Tips
A lot of people choose to add nutritional supplements to their smoothies, such as wheat germ, Vitamin C powder or ground flaxseed. Also, if you want extra protein, add soy protein isolate or soy protein concentrate.

The most common recipe for a fruit smoothie is orange juice, strawberries, and a banana that is blended until smooth. Calorie-wise, a version of the fruit smoothie that is the lowest in calories just uses water (flavored water is optional), fruit, and ice cubes. Adding dairy products or soy adds protein, calcium, and a different taste to your smoothie.

Smoothies are great for a quick and easy breakfast or even a snack because they are very filling.

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Greek Yoghurt, Wild Honey and Summer Fruits Breakfast

Definitely a dish to bring out the sunshine - preferably eat this on the balcony overlooking the Aegean sea. Known colloquially as 'ko' - that's Greek for breakfast.

Ingredients

For two people (Vegetarian)

1 small tub Greek yoghurt
1 fresh peach
1/2 Ogen melon
2 ripe yellow plums
8-10 strawberries
2 fresh figs
wild flower or similar honey


Recipe

Peel and slice the figs, stone and cut the peach into thick slices, stone and quarter the plums and place around a large plate. De-seed the melon, remove the outside skin and chop into bite sized squares, add to the plate together with the fresh strawberries. Pour a pile of the Greek yoghurt in the centre of the dish and drizzle everything with the wild flower honey.

Change into your bathing costume and eat this delicious breakfast.


Body Talk

Healthy, tasty, and wonderfully designed, this recipe will leave you longing for the next breakfast time. Natural yoghurt helps to keep the bacterial balance correct in your digestive system, and the combination of fruits will act like a vitamin and mineral pill, as well as conataining plenty of fibre. Pure health and deliciousness on a plate.

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Breakfast Fruit Kebabs

Ingredients

For four people (Vegetarian)

3 bananas, cut into chunks
1 ripe pear cut into wedges
1 nectarine cut into wedges
8 strawberries
2 plums or one apple cut into wedges
150ml fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons runny honey

For the sauce :
400g tin of mango slices
juice of 1/2 lemon
2 teaspoons runny honey


Recipe

Thread the fruit onto eight small wooden skewers. Warm the honey and orange juice, use to brush the fruit, then grill for 2 - 3
minutes, turning and basting halfway.

Make the sauce by pureeing
the drained mango slices, lemon and honey. Drizzle over the hot
kebabs and serve on a large dramatic leaf.


Body Talk

It really doesn't get better than this for those fruit-lovers amongst you. Bursting with vitamins, minerals and fibre, you'll get a tasty, nutritious meal that makes your taste-buds tingle. You'll be left drooling for more . . .

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