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Apple-Cinnamon Granola

Apple Cinnamon Granola

Ingredients
2 cups of rolled oats
2 cups of puffed red wheat cereal
1 cups of chopped walnuts
2 cups of dried apple rings, chopped
2 TBS of brown sugar
1/2 cup of unsweetened apple sauce
3 TBS of cinnamon
1 TBS of apple spice
1 TBS of canola oil
1 TBS of honey
1/4 cup of almonds, chopped or slivered

Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or foil.

In a large mixing bowl, add the rolled oats, puffed rice, walnut and almonds.  Mix and set aside.

In a small sauce pan, over medium heat, at the canola oil, apple sauce, brown sugar, cinnamon and apple spice. Stir and let it get to a boil.  Remove from the heat, then pour over the oats/nuts mixture. Stir it, making sure it’s evenly mixed. Sprinkle in a little more cinnamon.   Pour the mixture onto the cookie sheet and spread evenly.

Bake in the oven for 12 minutes. Using a spatula, stir the mixture, turning it over. Then bake for an additional 12 minutes and remove from the oven.

In a small bowl, add the chopped apple rings,  the honey, sprinkle some cinnamon and stir around.  Add the apples to the granola on the cookie sheet.
Stir the mixture and turn it around, then  put it back in the oven for 15 minutes.  After the 15 minutes, turn the mixture over again, then bake for just another 5-7 minutes.

Remove from the oven, and let cool completely. The granola will get its crunchiness at this stage.

Store in an airtight container.

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Eat with yogurt, milk,  or ice cream. It’s soo good.
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Other Granola Recipes:
Cranberry Almond Granola

Chicken Over a Mango-Lime Couscous

Chicken Over a Mango-Lime Couscous

Ingredients
1/2 cup of couscous
1 Mango
1 Lime
2  Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
Garlic Salt
Garlic Pepper
1 tablespoon of Olive Olive

Prep:
In small sauce pan add 1 cup of water and heat on High. In a sauce pan add the olive oil and set to a medium high heat.  Cut lime in fourths and remove the skin from the mango and cut it up.

Directions:
1. Sprinkle garlic salt and garlic pepper and both sides of the chicken breasts and add to the saute pan.

2. When the water in the sauce pan begins to boil add the couscous, drop the heat to medium, stir and let cook.

3. Allow the chicken to cook on each side for 3-4 minutes depending on the thickness of each breasts. The couscous should begin soak up the water, use a fork to fluff it up. Squeeze the lime into the couscous, add the mango, add some garlic salt,  stir and let sit on low heat for 2-4 minutes.

Serve the chicken over the couscous.

Rinse, Cut and Store Fruits for Easy Snacking

Quick Snack Idea – Fresh Fruit.

As soon as I come home from the grocery store, I rinse the fruits and veggies and cut up any fruits that require being cut. I store them in clear containers and leave them in the refrigerator for quick snacking, or use them when packing my lunch for work.

It’s so simple and time-saving. Rinse, cut, store. Then it’s ready to eat. Imagine if you had to cut open the watermelon just to have a piece, or rinse the berries and grapes first. You’d probably change your mind and choose something that doesn’t require prep.

This morning when packing my lunch, I just pulled out the various fruits in the fridge and put them in a container.  Now I have a fun midday snack.

 Rinse, cut, store.  Do it.

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Mandarin Chicken Over Brown Rice

Mandarin Chicken over Brown Rice

Ingredients
1.5 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 red bell peppers
3/4 cup of sliced white onion
2 TBS of Sesame Oil
3 TBS of hoisoin sauce
2 cans of mandarin oranges in light syrup
1-2 cups of brown rice

Directions

1. Begin cooking the rice according to the instructions. Cook it stove top or in a rice cooker. Cut the chicken into 1 inches cubes, and cut up the bell peppers, onion and green onion.  Drain the mandarin oranges and put them to the side.

 2. Heat the pan to medium high heat and add the sesame oil. Stir the chicken into the pan. Season with salt n pepper, and stir. Cook for 4 minutes until browned.

3. Add half of the onions to the chicken in the pan. Stir. Add the hoisoin sauce. Stir. Add the mandarin oranges and stir it around.  Let cook for 3 minutes, then add the red bell pepper and the rest of the onion.  Stir it around and let it come to a boil. Lower heat to medium low and put a lid on it.  Let cook for 15-20 minutes.

Serve over brown rice and top with green onions.

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This recipe is also shared on Amee’s Savory Dish blog for Fit & Fabulous Fridays #20.  Visit her blog for additional healthy recipes

Recipe:Whole Wheat Banana Muffins

Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
Yay for banana muffins, double-yay for a simple five-step recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup of ground oats
1/4 cup ground flax seeds
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking power
1/2 teaspoon salt
a sprinkle of cinnamon
2-3 large ripe bananas
1 large egg
1/3 cup applesauce
1/4 cup of brown sugar

Prep:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease muffin pan or use muffin tins

Directions:
1. Mix together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.  (Flour, oats, flax seeds, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon)
2. In a bowl mash up the bananas. Add brown sugar, egg and applesauce.
3.  Add the banana mixture into the dry ingredient mixture. Mix it up.
4.  Divide the mixture evenly into the muffin tins, filling about 3/4 full.
5.  Bake for 17-20 minutes, depending on your oven.  Do the toothpick test to ensure done-ness.

This recipes yields 11 muffins. :)
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