Superfood Recipe - Carrot and Blueberry Salad

I'm always looking for new recipes to add superfoods to my diet. This festive, colorful blueberry salad recipe includes two superfoods. Besides blueberries, this superfood salad also contains heart healthy walnuts and fresh carrots.

Ingredients

Juice of 1 lemon

4 tsp of maple syrup – use sugar free if you’d like to save calories

½ tsp salt

Dash pepper

1 c diced green pepper

2 tsp olive oil

1 2/3 c blueberries, fresh or frozen and thawed

3 large carrots

1/3 c walnuts

½ c pineapple pieces

Directions for Superfood Salad

Squeeze juice from lemon and remove any seeds.

Add maple syrup, salt, pepper and oil to lemon juice and blend.

 

Add blueberries, mix and set aside.

Peel carrots. Using a vegetable peeler, peel carrots into strips. Set aside

Chop walnuts. Then combine carrot strips, walnuts and pineapple in a salad bowl, then add blueberries and mix gently.

 

Makes 6 servings of superfood blueberry salad

This superfood recipe contains only 105 calories per serving using sugarfree syrup!

Superfood Recipe - Blueberry Breakfast Salad

Blueberry Breakfast Salad
 
A salad for breakfast? You’ll be a convert when you taste the natural sweetness of this terrific fruity dish. Fruit and sunflower seeds give you healthy fiber to keep you feeling full for hours, plus provides dozens of vital nutrients. Sunflower seeds also have heart-healthy zinc, Vitamin E, and omega3 fatty acids.

Studies have shown that as little as 8 grams of additional fiber in your diet each day translates to 150 fewer calories eaten. That’s because fiber keeps your tummy feeling full. This scrumptious salad has a whopping 12 grams of fiber so you’re off to a great start!

Add metabolism boosting cinnamon and calcium enriched cottage cheese, and this blueberry breakfast salad creates the perfect morning dish.

Ingredients


1 unpeeled, chopped apple
1/2 c sunflower seed nuts
1/2 c pineapple chunks
1 sliced banana
2 tbs honey
1 tbs fresh orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 c nonfat cottage cheese
3/4 c blueberries
fresh or frozen
4 melon halves

Directions

Combine apples, sunflower seed nuts, raisins, dates, banana, blueberries, honey, orange juice, vanilla and cinnamon in a nice serving bowl and mix lightly to blend. Spoon cottage cheese into melon halves, top with fruit.

Makes 4 servings.

Nutritional Information per Serving:

Calories 450
Protein 15 g
Dietary Fiber 12 g
Carbohydrates 110
Sodium 300mg
Fat 10g

Healthy Recipes - Grilled Chicken and Berry Salad

I love blueberries and eat them every day. The nutrients and antioxidants in blueberries make them a true superfood. Eating superfoods daily can be a helpful weightloss tip because if you give your body all the nutrition it needs, you won't be reaching for the junk food. It's possible to create delicious recipes and lose weight too. This grilled chicken and berry salad is high protein and contains superfoods - blueberries and nuts.

This Grilled Chicken Berry Salad is also a very attractive, colorful entrée. Besides high protein chicken and superfood berries, this recipes also offers a healthy mix of salad greens and snap peas. Pecans offers heart healthy omega3 fatty acids.

You can easily use either barbecued chicken or broiled in the oven.

Ingredients

2 tbs low fat honey mustard salad dressing
1/4 c cider vinegar
1/2 c canola oil
2 tbs orange juice
1 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
8 cups mixed salad greens
1 c sliced fresh strawberries
1/2 c fresh blueberries
1/2 c fresh raspberries
8 oz sugar snap peas
1/2 c toasted pecans

Directions for Grilled Chicken and Berry Salad

Preheat the grill or broiler.

Whisk together vinegar, oil and orange juice to create the salad dressing and then set this aside.

Grill or bbq chicken for 6 to 8 minutes on each side. Chicken is done when juice runs clear. Take from heat and allow chicken it to cool, then cut it into strips.

Add all ingredients except dressing to a large salad bowl and toss to mix. Add dressing and toss again lightly until ingredients are coated.

This high protein, superfood grilled chicken and berry salad makes 6 servings

Nutritional Information per Serving

Calories 376
Fat 27.3g
Sodium 271mg
Carbohydrates 15.1g
Fiber 5.1g
Protein 19.1g