Nutritious recipe book

Nutritious is a recipe book with a difference – it contains 100% healthy recipes which are both tasty and easy to make, and utilizes organic ingredients, healthy alternatives to sugar, dairy, wheat and bad fats whilst being fun and informative at the same time.

You will find health information and funny quotations peppered throughout the book, together with cooking and general health tips. Put together by Sally-Ann Creed and Jill Fraser Halkett for Leading Edge Nutrition Centres, Nutritious has done extraordinarily well for their first effort and is published by Storm Books.

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Hunger-buster salad

This makes an amazing lunch for hungry youngsters.

Serves 1 or more

Wheat free; sugar free; dairy free; vegetarian

Take

A few slices of freshly baked rye bread

1 handful of frilly lettuce leaves

Extra virgin cold-pressed olive oil for drizzling over the salad

1 juicy lemon freshly squeezed

Finely chop the following:

A tomato

A few sticks celery with leaves

A few slices cucumber

2 slices of a deep red onion

1 quarter sweet pepper – any colour

1 carrot, and

Half an apple

A handful mixed raw nuts – walnuts, pecan, cashew, almonds, etc

Mix together:

1 crushed clove garlic

1 seeded chilli

1 tsp chopped parsley

1 tsp torn basil leaves

1 tsp chopped coriander leaves

1 small spring onion

2 or 3 dried dates

1 tsp chopped coriander leaves

Herbamare and freshly ground pepper

A few fresh dill or fennel sprigs

Do

• Cover the slices of bread with washed and dried lettuce leaves
• Arrange the rest of the chopped ingredients on the lettuce
• Top this with the garlic mixture
• Sprinkle with chopped nuts
• Season and drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil
• Serve immediately

From Nutritious by Sally-Ann Creed & Jill Fraser Halkett

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