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BLT Pasta Salad 😍🥗
🥓Ingredients:
•6 medium zucchinis
•1 head Butter Lettuce
•2 cups basil leaves
•pinch of sea salt
•¼ cup Pine Nuts
•¼ cup nutritional yeast
•1 teaspoon lemon juice
•¼ cup plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
•2 leeks, whites and greens, thinly sliced
•4 garlic cloves, chopped
•1 cup Cherry Tomatoes, halved
•pinch of black pepper
•½ cup dry white wine
•4 bacon strips, cooked and chopped
🥗Directions:
1. Wash the zucchini and use a veggie peeler to remove the green skin. Run through a spiral slicer to create long, thin noodles. Put them in a large bowl. Thinly chop the lettuce and add it to the bowl.
2. In a food processor, combine the basil, sea salt, pine nuts, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, and 1/4 cup of the olive oil. Pulse until a paste forms. Add the pesto to the bowl of noodles and lettuce.
3. In a small skillet, heat the remaining 1 teaspoon olive oil over medium heat. Add the leeks and garlic and sauté for 3 minutes, or until the leeks are soft. Add the cherry tomatoes, stir, cover, and cook for 8 minutes, until the tomatoes burst. Season with sea salt and black pepper, then add the wine and simmer to cook it off. Add the mixture to the bowl.
4. Mix the contents of the bowl well and stir in the bacon pieces.Enjoy!! 😋

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TESTED AND APPROVED GREEN SMOOTHIE

PREP TIME
10 mins
TOTAL TIME
10 mins

Serves: 2
INGREDIENTS
1 frozen banana (we just keep a bag of them in our freezer)
1 cup of pineapple, frozen or fresh depending on season (sub 1 piece or 1 cup of any fruit you’d like)
1 cup almond milk (can use water or any other milk of choice)
Juice of 1 lemon
2 Tbsp h**p or chia seeds (or a combo of both)
1 Tbsp almond butter
1 cucumber, roughly chopped
5 stalks of kale
1 handful of spinach
½ cup parsley or cilantro
6-8 ice cubes
Water as needed
Dash of cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS
Combine all ingredients into a blender or vitamix. Mix well. Add more ice or water as needed to get to desired texture.
Serve and be greeen