Dinner is a Triple Threat: Easy, Healthy, Delicious!

All I gotta say is, if love of eating were people, I'd be China.  Last night I enjoyed yet another delicious meal, and I managed to amaze myself again at how great tasting food can also be so damn good for you! (Did I just hear the country of France say "Duh!"?)

Two words: Salmon and Asparagus.  Or as I'm now going to call this combo: Fish-n-Stalks (more kid friendly, don't you think?)

How simple is this...in most grocery stores you can now by "Wild Alaskan Salmon Burgers" -- yes, that's right, nix the "ham" in front of the word burger and replace it with "salmon".  They come frozen, you keep them frozen until ready to use, and then put them in the oven frozen...sooo easy!  Note: make sure any salmon you buy is "wild" and not "farmed".  The verdict is in and wild is by far more nutritious (I'm not exactly sure why, but it makes sense - the whole "fish out of water" thing, you know?)

Also, I keep boxes of frozen asparagus spears on hand, so making dinner last night for me was basically turning on the oven and putting things in and out of it.  How you serve it is up to you.  Personally, I love hollandaise sauce, and McCormick offers a handy little packet that you only have to add water and butter to.  Everyone but my 7-year-old likes to top their salmon burger with a little hollandaise, and then of course I also dip my asparagus into it as well (and don't even get me started on whether hollandaise sauce is bad for you, it's not like I'm topping chocolate cake with it).

Or, another option that kids especially like, put the salmon burgers on whole wheat buns and top with lettuce, tomato, and ketchup (my youngest son loves ketchup on his salmon burger...though it turns me off, I'm smart enough to see the bigger picture: my kid is eating healthy food!).  Another attractive accompaniment to the burgers: french fries.  Buy a bag of frozen fries and keep them on hand to bake when you need them (when you skip the frying, you skip the added oils).

Maybe you like asparagus but the rest of your family doesn't (really, you must pity them).  Make your life easy and keep a few bags of Steam-In-The-Bag veggies such as corn or peas in the freezer so you can pop them in the microwave at a moment's notice (which is what I did last night for the boys).  Anyway, all this means is more asparagus for me!

Do yourself a favor and start incorporating more wild Alaskan salmon into your life, or at least into your body.  Everything you've heard is true: it's that good for you.

Yours in health & happiness,

Suzanna Quintana, Holistic Health Coach & Certified Foodie

P.S.  If I can talk openly here, just be sure that after you eat asparagus you pee in a bathroom that won't be used immediately afterwards.  I have never found adequate enough words, unfortunately, to describe the odor of this vegetable when it leaves the body in the form of urine, other than it smells like weeds.  Do your own science experiment and let me know if you can come up with a better adjective.