Kale Chips

Great for parties, these low calorie snacks eat like potato chips - you can’t stop at just eating one and they make a great conversation topic. Kale is a great source of vitamin K, vitamin C, manganese, calcium and copper and beta-carotene.

Ingredients

•    1 bunch kale
•    20 mL olive oil
•    5mL seasoned salt

Directions

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Carefully remove the leaves from the thick stems and tear into bite size pieces. Wash and thoroughly dry. Drizzle kale with olive oil and sprinkle with seasoning salt. Bake until the edges brown but are not burnt, 10 to 15 minutes.

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Slow Cooker Turkey Sloppy Joes

Ingredients

•    500 grams ground turkey breast (raw)
•    1 cup onion, diced
•    1/2 cup green pepper, diced
•    3 cloves garlic, minced
•    1 Tbsp yellow mustard
•    1/4 cup natural ketchup
•    796 mL can no-salt added tomato sauce
•    20 mL BBQ sauce
•    Stevia to taste (optional, if you want to make it on the sweeter side)

Directions

Mist a skillet with oil and brown raw turkey, onions and green pepper over medium heat (you could skip this step, but you will get a better flavour). Place turkey meat, onions & green pepper in the slow cooker. Add all the other ingredients and mix well. Cover and cook on LOW for 3-4 hours or HIGH for 2-3 hours. If you don't brown the meat first, then cook on LOW for 5-6 hours or HIGH for 3-4 hours.
Serve with a whole grain bun, toasted.

Calories per cup: 167  Protein: 23 g, Carbs: 14 g, Fat: 4 g  Sugars: 8 g Fibre: 2 g,  Sodium: 387 mg

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