So I have been slacking on the postings but busy in the kitchen! I read in Real Simple magazine about the 30 healthiest ingredients to have in your diet and we regularly have 20 of them in our house so I felt pretty good about that. Now to just incorporate the other 10!
My new secret ingredient in "Project Get My Family to Eat Healthier" is frozen spinach. The majority of my family thinks that it is wonderful. Of course Tanner is the hold out on this one but what else is new. Up until recently I was the only one in the family to eat healthy side dishes with strange ingredients. Luckily spinach is starting to open their eyes to more variety and vitamins! I have been adding spinach as well as carrot puree to all sorts of meals and everyone is happy.
Last night I made a baked ziti with Smart Taste pasta and spinach and it was a hit! I was going to add carrot puree to the sauce but was short on dinner prep time due to a trip to the school book fair. I also used the extra ricotta,spinach, fontina, pecorino romano, parmesan cheese mixture as a homemade ravioli filler with leftover wonton wrappers I had hanging out in the fridge. Now Scott has a quick healthy lunch or dinner all set to make when I am at work this week.
This week we also tried a smoked sausage lentil soup for the first time. It was yummy but definitely a work in progress. I should have used only half the bag of lentils as the whole bag made it too "lentily" for our taste and Scott said it needed more veggies. I had some of the leftovers today and it is so much tastier after it has sat for a couple days.
Tonight's dinner will be a baked pesto chicken dish as I have some prepared pesto in the fridge that needs to be used up.
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