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If you haven’t noticed, I get freakishly excited about eating the most nutritional and largest quantity of optimal food each day while staying lean.  Welcome to my Easy Skinny Life world.

It’s almost a game each day.  How many different vegetables and fruits, how many colors, and how many great tasting seasonings can I add?  More importantly, how high can I pile all of it on the plate?  And the best part….  Where is my delicious GOOD fat in each meal?  Remember, when you eat clean and “skinny”, you get to add your own incredible tasting fat to it.

This meal accomplishes everything.  It towers high on the plate and has a ton of different colors.  My quality protein is wild salmon, my quality main carb is sweet potatoes, and my great fat is avocado.  Perfection.

Now don’t screw it up by dousing bottled salad dressing over it!  Don’t even think about processed fried croutons either.  With this many flavors, just a squeeze of lemon did it for me.  Towards the end of the salad, if it starts to taste dry, add a few spoonfuls of homemade mix of mustard-apple cider vinegar.  No oil needed, people.

Skinny Wild Salmon, Roasted Red Pepper, and Sweet Potato Salad

 Ingredients:

• 6 ounces wild salmon
• 1 fresh lemon, halved
• Coarse black pepper
• Fresh or dry dill herbs
• 1 medium sweet potato, sliced and quartered for chips
• Full large plate of red lettuce, green lettuce, and iceberg lettuce
• 1/4 red onion, sliced thin
• 4 thick slices of Portobello mushroom
• 1 roasted red pepper, from a jar with water (not oil), rinsed to remove salt.
• ½ avocado, chopped

Directions:

• Pre-heat oven to 425.  Place sweet potato chips directly on foiled small baking sheet and cook for 30 minutes, turning twice.
• Add 1/2 lemon juice to salmon, then pepper and dill.
• Pile lettuce on large plate, topped with onions.
• Place salmon on foiled small baking sheet next to sweet potatoes for final 10 minutes of cooking.
• Add warm sweet potato chips to salad, then mushrooms, then red pepper, then salmon, and top with avocado.
• Squeeze the other half of the lemon over plate, and enjoy!

It’s an amazing taste combination of hot bites mixed with cool and crisp bites.  Try it.  Your body will love you and your skin will be radiant.   And your stomach will be royally stuffed and calm until bedtime!

Nutritional Information:  541 calories, 23 grams fat, 37 grams protein, 23 grams carbs, 18 grams fiber

Kathy