A great recipe for your clean healthy eating arsenal! Rather than spreading on crackers, try cucumber rounds or even better, filling hard boiled egg white halves “deviled egg style”! Remember, each whole egg white contains 3 grams of protein, making this “snack” a terrific meal replacement when served this way ~ easy to pack up and tote to work.

Ingredients

1/4 pound smoked trout fillet, skinned and broken into pieces
1/2 cup 1 percent low-fat cottage cheese
1/4 cup coarsely chopped red onion
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 celery stalk, diced

Directions

In a blender or food processor, combine the trout, cottage cheese, red onion, lemon juice, hot pepper sauce and Worcestershire. Process until smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Fold in the diced celery. Cover and refrigerate until just before serving. Makes 12 tablespoons.

Nutritional Analysis (per serving) Serving size: 2 tablespoon Calories 26 Monounsaturated fat 0 mg Protein 8 g Cholesterol 28 mg Carbohydrate 2g  Total fat 2 g Fiber 0 mg Saturated fat 0 mg

by Beverly Nadler

What an amazing tool is the mind
With its uncanny ability to find
The specific thoughts that will make you sad or mad,
Unless you choose thoughts to make you glad.

For life gives us both pain and pleasure,
And doles them out in equal measure.
And what predominates in the illusion we live
Is that upon which we choose to give

Our focus and concentration.
That’s what determines our life’s destination.
One day you’ll discover the game of the mind.
That’s when you’ll no longer be blind…

And wherever you look you’ll find joy and peace
And the endless chatter of your mind will cease.
You’ll even look back at past pain and grief
And know most of it was caused by JUST A BELIEF.

For the truth is – in each person’s experience
What reigns supreme
Is choice. YOU CAN LIVE LIFE AS A NIGHTMARE
OR A WONDROUS DREAM…