Recipe: Chicken Noodle Soup

Here's a really simple, nitrate-free chicken noodle soup I threw together one day, and Dee and I rocked that stuff every day for lunch without getting tired of it! :) And remember, you can click on keyword "recipes" to see all our recipes!

Chicken Noodle Soup
~Makes 8 servings, 1 1/4 cups each



Ingredients:
1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast
1 large can (49.5 oz) Swanson's 100% Natural Chicken Broth
3 cups water
4 medium carrots, diced
1 medium green bell pepper, diced
1.5 cups dry rotini pasta (we used "garden" rotini)
dried, minced onion (or substitute fresh onion)
dried parsley
salt (we use a lower sodium variety)

1) Place broth, water, carrots, and bell pepper in large pot and get boiling!
2) Grill chicken until cooked.
3) Dice chicken and add to soup pot.
4) Add pasta, minced onion, and parsley to soup pot. Add salt to taste.
5) Simmer for 10-15 minutes until pasta is cooked.

Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts (per 1.25 cup serving):
Calories: 156
Fat: 1 gram
Fiber: 2 grams
Protein: 19.5 grams

Cost per serving: $0.96 (we found chicken on sale for about $1.50 per pound!)

--Jay :)

Enter: Exercise?!?

Yes, the punishment phase has begun... Actually... it wasn't that bad. :)

Dee and I had begun going to the fitness center to use the elliptical & treadmill a couple of times a week for a few weeks back at the end of last year. But that didn't last.



Today, we decided to partake in an organized exercise class... aerobics with light weight training. The class was about 50 minutes, and it was actually really fun. We both felt really good afterward! We're shooting to incorporate exercise at least three times a week now... probably twice at the fitness center, and one time at home. We have a Gazelle (thank you Tony Little... "you can DO it!!!") and a Core Rhythms dance fitness DVD system.



Dinner was a nice creation from our eDiets days called Tuna Pasta Salad. Normally done with rotini, we had to sub angel hair, as it was the only pasta in our cabinet. :) Throw on a can of tuna drained of its water, some fat-free Italian dressing, some spices, little spinach on the side... yum!

So... exercise count for the day: 50 minutes, aerobics & light weights.

Woo!
--Jay