My Bulgur Salad

Today for lunch I had a bulgur salad. I made this salad last night in 10 minutes! The best part of this salad is it's loaded with fiber and antioxidants. Each serving of bulgur has 7 grams of fiber! Here are the deets for my Bulgur Salad: Ingredients: 1c. cooked bulgur 1/2c. frozen broccoli florets 1/2c. frozen string beans 1/2c. frozen sugar snap peas 1/4c. low sodium soy sauce 1TB. chili powder 1TB. garlic powder 2 handfuls of spinach, chopped Preparation: Place your sauté pan on medium heat and add the frozen veggies. Stir in the soy sauce and garlic powder and chili powder. Cook this until the veggies have defrosted. Add the bulgur and spinach. Toss all together. Enjoy! Servings: 1 or 2 if this is a side dish.

Turning Madhur's Lentils Into a Salad...

Since I made a batch of Onion and Garlic Lentils from Madhur Jaffrey's cookbook, I decided to bring that to lunch today. Again, I had this with my bulgur. I had also brought a plain side salad with me, so I decided to chop this up and mix it in with my lentils and bulgur. The result was a delicious lentil salad which was very filling and only 4 points!

Can Madhur's Meals Make Me Skinny...

Yesterday I made my first Madhur Jaffrey meal...Lentil with Onion and Garlic, a Middle Eastern dish. This recipe was so easy and seemed very healthy to me. The recipe only calls for onion, garlic, dried red chili and green lentils. Mrs. Jaffrey used 3TB of EVOO, but I was able to make the whole recipe with only 1TB, and still was able to make the four servings. Also, the recipe suggests eating this with pita or any other type of Middle Eastern bread. I, however decided to have this with bulgur and this seemed to pair up perfectly. So, lunch today was bulgur with green lentils. Very filling and full of fiber, protein and flavor. All for 5 WW pts. I will post a pic tonight!