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I Really Like this Quote of the Day

Tuesday December 20, 2016 quote by Dr Wayne W Dyer

A Collections of the Motivational Quote of the Day

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."

Walt Whitman: American poet, essayist and journalist

 

Your Guide to a Fun Holiday Season by Chadwick Burks Ph.D

Your Guide to a Fun Holiday Season

 The holiday season can be such a busy time. Between work deadlines, holiday parties, and long shopping lists to check off, the holidays tend to come and go before you can say mistletoe. Don't forget to set aside time this year to have fun and make some memories. Here are seven things you can do to enjoy the magic of the season this holiday.

1. Go gift shopping out of town. Chances are, shopping for gifts is on your to-do list. So, why not make a mini-vacation out of it? Take a day or weekend trip to go shopping somewhere you love to visit or have never been before.

2. See a live holiday play. Bring your favorite holiday stories to life by attending a live theater performance, which makes for a memorable experience and a fun holiday tradition.

3. Have a holiday movie marathon. This is the perfect excuse to get some relaxation time in and brush up on your holiday movie-quoting skills.

4. Bake cookies. Even if holiday baking is already a part of your annual tradition, mix it up this year by trying some new recipes or unique decorating tricks. Then, pass them out to your neighbors or coworkers to spread a little holiday cheer.

5. Get crafty. Skip the store-bought decorations and get in touch with your creative side. Try something like a DIY holiday wreath or handmade ornaments. This not only saves you money but also gives you unique mementos to cherish for holidays to come.

6. Go outside. If you live in a place with lots of snow, go sledding or build a snowman. If sandy beaches are more your thing, make sand angels instead. Getting some fresh air will help give you an added boost to combat the busyness of the holidays.

7. Attend a tree lighting ceremony. What better way to feel merry and bright than with a tree lighting ceremony or holiday light show? These events typically include food, live entertainment, and a little something for everyone in the family to enjoy.

Saturday December 17, 2016

This Is My Wish for My Family and Friends for 2017

5 Spice Salmon - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
The balanced flavor in this Asian flavored dish with Chinese 5 spice (a combination of star anise), cloves, cinnamon, huajiao (Sichuan pepper) and ground fennel seeds) is wonderful. This is a surprising dish that is both light, yet very flavorful. It is full of nutrition, and very easy to prepare.
5 Spice Salmon
Prep and Cook Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:

• 1 lb salmon filet cut into 4 pieces
• 6 dried medium shiitake mushrooms soaked in 3/4 cup hot water for about 15 minutes (save water)
• 1 medium sized onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 TBS fresh ginger, chopped, or 1/3 tsp dried
• 1 cup vegetable stock
• 1 tsp 5 spice powder (can be found in Asian section in supermarket)
• 3/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 2 TBS molasses
• 2 tsp arrowroot
• 4 cups shredded Chinese, or Napa cabbage
• 6 scallion, chopped
• salt and white pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Soak shiitake mushrooms in 3/4 cup hot water. Slice when soft cutting out stem. Preheat broiler on high.
2. Healthy Sauté onion in medium saucepan over medium low heat for about 5 minutes stirring frequently. Add ginger and garlic and continue to sauté for another minute. Add vegetable stock, 5 spice powder, orange juice, and molasses. Simmer for 15 minutes. Strain and discard all but liquid. Place liquid back into pan, and thicken with arrowroot dissolved in a little water while simmering.
3. While sauce is cooking, simmer in another medium sized sauté pan cabbage, mushrooms, scallion, salt and pepper in mushroom water for 5 minutes.
4. Rub salmon with salt and pepper. (You can Quick Broil with the skin on; it just takes a minute or two longer. The skin will peel right off after cooking.)
5. When pan is hot, use a hot pad to pull out the pan from the heat and place salmon on it, skin side down. Return to broiler. Keep in mind that it is cooking rapidly on both sides so it will be done very quickly (usually about 7 minutes for every inch of thickness.

Serves 4 For optimum flavor and nutrition serve with:

• Cucumber, Seaweed Salad

Linda’s Mantra for the Day

Linda’s Mantra for the Day

Mantra: Happiness comes from within.

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Linda's Favorite Quote for Today 12/15/16 and it is so true.

December 9, 2016 - Friday

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Linda's Favorite Quote Pick for Today 12/9/16

My Favorite Quote Pick for Today 12/8/16

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Quote by Joel Osteen 12/8/16

Take control of your thought life. Every morning when you wake up, declare, “This is going to be a great day, I’m excited about my future, I have the favor of God, and no weapon formed against me will prosper. I am strong. I am healthy. I am blessed.” Every time you do that, you’re being filled back up.

Linda's Motto for Today 12/8/16

Treat others as you want them to treat you EVEN if they don't. It will come back on them in matter of time..........

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No More Winter Weight Gain

Fight Back Against Holiday Bulge Don't wait until January to eat right. These delicious recipes and tips will help you enjoy December without gaining weight. Stay-Slim Holiday Secrets The One Trick You Need to Outsmart a Holiday Food Binge 7-Day Meal Plan: High-Protein Dinners How to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain Metabolism-Boosting Snacks Holiday Foods That Actually Boost Weight Loss Holiday Party? 5 Diet Tips to Win

My Favorite Quote for Monday December 5 2016

This Just About Sums it Up

This Is So True

Mason-Jar Soup Mix - Southwestern Three Bean and Barley Soup

Ingredients Nutrition

Servings 6 Units US

• 4 cups chicken broth or 4 cups vegetable broth
• 2 cups water
• 1 large onion, diced
• 1 large stalk celery, diced
• 1 large carrot, diced
• ¹⁄₂ cup pearl barley
• ¹⁄₃ cup dried black beans
• ¹⁄₃ cup dried great northern beans
• ¹⁄₃ cup dried kidney beans
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• ¹⁄₂ teaspoon dried oregano
• ³⁄₄ teaspoon salt (to taste)

Directions

1. Combine broth, water, onion, celery, and carrot in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker.
2. Add in barley, black beans, great northern beans, kidney beans, oil, chili powder, cumin and oregano.
3. Cover with lid and cook until the beans are tender, about 4 hours on HIGH or 7-8 hours on LOW.
4. Season with salt, and pepper if needed.
5. Serve with toasted sourdough bread with melted pepper jack cheese.

7 Steps to Lose Weight Now

7 Steps to Lose Weight Now Get your eating habits back on track with a few key tips, tricks and recipes. Here's how to get started. 1. Start with a Weight-Loss Meal Plan 2. Eat the Right Portions 3. Cook Up Dinners to Slim Down 4. Stock Your Fridge with Healthy Foods  5. Make Your Snacks Work for You 6. Start Your Day Right with Better Breakfasts 7. Pack a High-Protein Lunch

Motivational Quotes of the Day

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

-Salvador Dali

It Is That Time Again, take out a Jar and label it for 2017!

My Favorite Quote for Today Wednesday November 30,2016

Yes I Will Take This!

Broiled Rosemary Chicken over Puréed Lentils and Swiss Chard - Healthy Food Tip and Recipe

Today's Recipe
If you don't know what to serve for dinner tonight ...
This is a complete meal that is highly nutritious and delicious. It is a great meal to prepare when you have company and want to make something special.
Broiled Rosemary Chicken over Puréed Lentils and Swiss Chard
Prep and Cook Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:

• 3 boneless chicken breasts (6 oz each)
• 2 cups of 1 15 oz can (BPA free) lentils, drained
• 1 bunch Swiss chard
• 1 medium -sized onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1-1/2 cups crimini mushrooms, sliced
• 3 TBS vegetable or chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 1/2 tsp dried sage
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1 TBS + 3 TBS fresh lemon juice
• 1-1/2 TBS chopped fresh rosemary (or 2 tsp dried)
• 2 cloves pressed garlic
• 2 TBS + 1 TBS olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Preheat the broiler on high and place an all stainless steel skillet (be sure the handle is also stainless steel) or cast iron pan about 6 inches from the heat for about 10 minutes to get it very hot.
2. While the pan is heating, rinse and pat the chicken dry and season with lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
3. Leaving the skin on, place the breast skin side up on the hot pan and return it to the oven. It is not necessary to turn the breast because it is cooking on both sides at once. Depending on the size, it should be cooked in about 7 minutes. Remove the skin before serving; it is left on to keep it moist while broiling. The breast is done when it is moist, yet its liquid runs clear when pierced. The inside temperature needs to reach 165 degrees Fahrenheit (74° Celcius).
4. While chicken is broiling, bring pot of water large enough to cook the chard to a boil.
5. Chop chard.
6. Chop onion, garlic, mushrooms, thyme, and sage and then Healthy Sauté them in medium sauté pan over medium-low heat for just about 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add lentils, walnuts and 3 TBS broth and heat through.
7. Purée mixture in blender or food processor with salt and pepper to taste. You will have to scrape sides of blender with a rubber spatula a few times.
8. When water has come to a boil, add chard and boil for 3 minutes.
9. Drain chard and toss with 2 TBS olive oil and 1 TBS lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
10. Place 3 TBS lemon juice, pressed garlic, chopped rosemary, salt, and pepper in small sauté pan and heat on stove for a minute. Turn off heat and whisk in 1 TBS olive oil.
11. Remove skin from chicken, slice into thirds, and serve with puréed lentils and chard. Drizzle rosemary lemon broth over chicken and lentils. Serve.

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In-Depth Nutritional Profile for Broiled Rosemary Chicken over Puréed Lentils and Swiss Chard
Healthy Food Tip
Can you help me better understand your nutrient rating system so that I can make the best food choices? For example, I have heard that almonds are rich in calcium, yet this fact is not highlighted in the almonds or calcium write-ups.

Almonds do have a lot of calcium. According to the nutritional profile featured in the book, one-quarter cup of almonds contains 92 milligrams of calcium. Yet, the rating system for nutrient richness that we created for the World's Healthiest Foods website (www.whfoods.org) as well as my book is based not only on the amount of a nutrient that it contains but also the calories that it contains; this allows readers to know whether it would "cost" them a little or a lot of calories to attain the nutrients that are offered by the food.
To qualify to be noted as an excellent source of a specific nutrient, the food needed to feature 7.6 times the amount of nutrients for the calories it contained, to be a very good source it needed to provide 3.4 times the nutrients per calorie, and to be a good source it needed to provide 1.5 times the nutrients per calorie. Therefore, for example, foods with 7.6 mg or more of calcium per calorie are considered excellent sources; those with 3.4-7.6 mg of calcium per calorie are considered very good sources; and those with 1.5-3.4 mg of calcium per calorie are considered good sources.
As one-quarter cup of almonds contains 92 mg of calcium for 206 calories, they only provide 0.45 mg per calorie. Therefore according to our system, they don't qualify as even a good source of calcium, which is why they are not included in the nutrient richness chart or the best sources of calcium chart.
Now, that's not to say that calcium is not a wonderful feature provided by almonds; it's just that compared to other calcium-rich sources such as spinach that provides 10.6 mg of calcium per calorie, mustard greens that provides 8.9 mg/calorie, and yogurt that provides 5.2 mg/calorie, almonds do not provide nearly as much calcium for your caloric investment.
I hope that this helps to explain why almonds aren't singled out as a concentrated source of calcium. Using this almond-calcium example can also help you better understand the presentation of nutrient richness in the book so that you can make food choices based upon this important criterion.

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