5 more days!

Happy and Healthy in 2018! Just 5 days until the big GROUP start (JAN 2) of Fiber Fourteen – a 14-day fiber-rich, calorie-light recipe meal plan designed to improve your health. (Of course, you can start anytime!) Did you know that a diet rich in fiber can help you lose weight, improve bowel health – like easing constipation (yup, we’re talking about it), help to control blood pressure, sugar and cholesterol and reduce your risk of stroke? Find out more about the wonder drug that is fiber and all the details of the 14-day delicious recipe meal plan at www.fiberfourteen.com. And please reach out with any questions. (Also, please feel free to forward this email  – I don’t want to leave anyone out who might be interested.) 5 days and counting! Join in now. P.S. The plan is currently ON SALE! Here’s to a healthy New Year!

Wild Rice Salad with Diced Apples, Oranges, and Toasted Pecans

Yield: 6 to 8 servings

 

Wild Rice:

4 cups water or vegetable stock

1 cup wild rice, rinsed with cold water and drained

Salad:

2 small oranges

2 large apples, such as Braeburn, Fuji, or Honeycrisp, unpeeled, cored and diced small (4 cups)

2 cups toasted pecan halves, chopped roughly

1 cup dried black currants or dried cranberries

3 stalks celery, diced small (1½ cups)

⅓ cup thinly sliced green onions (green part only)

Kosher salt, to taste

Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

 

Vinaigrette:

6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

4 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice (from the oranges)

6 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (2 lemons)

1 tablespoon white wine vinegar

 

In a large saucepan, bring the water or vegetable stock to a boil. Add the wild rice, stir and cover. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the wild rice pops open and is tender to the bite, 45 minutes. Transfer to a colander, rinse with cold water to cool, and drain well.

Cut the peel and pith off the oranges, then segment them by cutting between the dividers. Discard any seeds, but reserve the juice for the vinaigrette.

In a medium container with a tight fitting lid, combine the vinaigrette ingredients, close the lid tightly, and shake well to combine. Or, whisk to combine the ingredients in a medium-sized bowl.

Add the diced apple, orange segments, drained wild rice, pecans, cranberries, and green onions. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.

Join me for 14 days!

For the past year, Super Sous and I have been working on www.fiberfourteen.com – a 14-day fiber-rich, calorie-light recipe meal plan designed to improve your health. (Fiber is truly a WONDER drug/ingredient!)

This project comes out of a personal story around healing (which you can read about on the website) and has been a passion project for us for many months. We are excited to share it with all of you now!

To launch, we want to get as many people as possible joining us – following the plan starting Jan 2. (Of course, we are going to do it again and again and you can join in anytime. Heck, you can even start now!)

Check out www.fiberfourteen.com and let me know if you have any questions (Also, please feel free to share this post – I don’t want to leave anyone out who might be interested.) WOHOO! Here’s to a HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR!

P.S. Here are some of the food photos from the plan!