Wow! You Are Really Lucky….

International Recipe Contest

The ongoing 2008 WOW! recipe contest winner for this week is included in this Recipe Carnival. The weekly Recipe Carnival is hosted at different sites each week. Visit the sites of the contributors and learn more about healthy living. The theme for being posted in this week’s recipe carnival is the same as the all-the-time WOW! theme that is fun, fast and healthy. I am hosting the carnival this week as part of our ongoing 2008 International WOW! Recipe Contest. Submit your fun, fast and healthy recipes for the upcoming week’s contest. More on the recipe contest

I thought we would open not with a recipe but a book review on the book Eat This Not That. It is an informative review on an eye opening book. Roger Baillargeon at The Book Reviewer Fan Club

Shawn, the organizer of the Recipe Carnival submitted this healthy recipe for Baked Chicken Fajitas. Go for whole grain flour tortillas and you have it made. Everything And/But Nothin

Any Sweet and Sour Pork recipe can also be made with turkey. When you use dark meat turkey your family won’t even know it is not pork. Bobby at Blog Chef.net submitted this yummy recipe.

A Key Lime Pie provided by Amy Allen Clark has oatmeal in the crust to give it some whole grain goodness. Get whole grain graham crackers at your local health food store to give this awesome recipe more nutrition for dessert. This is a fast dessert recipe that includes all real food! (don’t put the food color in!) I would have picked this recipe for the International Recipe contest winner for the week, except that Amy links into another site for the recipes. I am definitely going to make this one. The Motherload

Stephanie at Stop The Ride submitted a great recipe for Black Bean Salsa.

Add legumes to your daily diet for fiber and more!

A Weight Lifted posted a recipe that I am definitely going to try. I am a big Turkey Burger fan. Thanks, Marsha!

Nuts! Nuts belong on your daily menu too. I like this take on making your own Nut Butter. It doesn’t always have to be peanut (not really a nut) butter, you know! Check out Laurel On Health Food

Recipe Contest - Winning Recipe

Congratulations to A New Old-Fashioned Girl for winning this week’s WOW! International Recipe Contest. This is an interesting recipe that A New Old-Fashioned Gal calls Homemade Vegetable Stock. I would call it more like base to make stock for your stews and soups. It is definitely healthy and the salt preserves the veggies and flavors your soups too. I am going to make this one for sure. A New Old-Fashioned Girl put together a perfect recipe for making good-for-you soups and stews without the use of chemically laden store bought stocks. I hope to publish this recipe in it’s entirety on the WOW! site sometime in the next few days after talking to A New Old-Fashioned Girl. Congratulations!

Healthy Living Is A Choice

You can choose what you put in your mouth so healthy living is a choice. Sometimes it is not that easy to figure out what is good for you. The WOW! program of healthy living gives you the skills you need to be sure that your family stays on the right side of health.

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Week 2 Worldwide Recipe Contest Winner

Joan Boardman is one of our “6 Weeks To The New You” participants. She sent in this recipe. It fits all the criteria: fun-fast-healthy. I am a big fan of salsa and I like this recipe because it can be created year-round, even when the fresh tomatoes aren’t in season. You can avoid hidden sugars found in store bought salsas by making your own. Thank you, Joan for submitting this healthy recipe! Our first winner was from England. Joan lives in Westchester County, New York. We hope to have more winners from all over the world, Each weekly winner will receive a Healthy audio CD and. The over all winner will get a complimentary Healthy Living Program-Wow! You Are Really Lucky… Forward this on to someone you know and if they win then you do too! Send in your recipe for this 8 week long contest.

Healthy Salsa Recipe

1 can crushed tomatoes (35 oz)
1/2 chopped white onion
1/2 chopped green pepper of choice
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/2 bunch of chopped cilantro

Mix the above ingredients and add other spices if you need to. I
believe you’ll like it as is. Just be sure to let it sit overnight
before using it as a salsa, topping for fish, poultry or turkey. Enjoy!

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A special thanks to everyone who submitted recipes in the 2008 Worldwide WOW! recipe contest this past week. I received emails from Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Ohio, Idaho, Canada and England. With all the fun, fast and healthy recipes to choose from, we had a hard time picking just one. With the help of the judges, three York, PA area food tasters, we narrowed it down to 2 runners up and then went with the following recipe which was sent in by Suzanne from Liverpool, England. Suzanne says that this is a family favorite with garden fresh vegetables and beef. which her Mother always made when Suzanne was a child Suzanne now makes it for her kids and uses ground turkey or chicken. Thank you Suzanne, your Healthy Living CD is on the way to you.

8 Week Worldwide Recipe Contest

Each week’s winner will receive a Healthy Living CD which is an overview of the healthy living program WOW! You Are Really Lucky…. And a guaranteed spot as a finalist, one of which will win the complete 8 CD set. Send in your fun, fast and/or healthy recipe. More on the recipe contest.

Zucchini Burgers

I had these for dinner last night and they are scrumptious! They were definitely fast and healthy.

1 pound ground turkey or chicken
½ cup onion, small dice
3 small zucchini, grated
1 tsp grated ginger (or out of jar)
½ tsp minced garlic
1 tsp soy sauce
1 egg
1 tsp tomato paste
½ cup whole wheat breadcrumbs
1 tsp. chopped fresh thyme
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. Black pepper

Put in large bowl and use hands to combine. Shape into small patties. Pan-sear until done. Serve with barbecue sauce or horseradish sauce.

Thanks Suzanne, and all the others who submitted recipes!

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