EAT FOOD! (with recipe for Lime Chili Spinach Salad)

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Important: it's not a "weight loss" group. Skinny, healthy people are definitely welcome. Just be aware that most of us will probably hate you.

Okay, okay - that's not true. There's no hate allowed. But it's a great place to relieve frustration, rant about dieting stress, ask for and give nutrition tips, whatever.

And every time I find a tasty and healthy new treat, I post it there first!

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Chocolate-cherry all-natural baked granola!
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Ooh - and this AWESOME, very simple salad HotDaddy created - Lime-chili spinach salad. MMM...
The ingredients are easy:

Fresh spinach - one cup has only 7 calories! Just rinse it in cold water.

Lowfat 1% cottage cheese: a serving is 1/2 cup, which may be even more than you need for this tasty little salad. But if you want it all, indulge: 1/2 cup is just 80 calories.

Lime Chili Shrimp ramen noodles - 1/2 serving
This is what makes the salad. This flavor is strong and spicy; it's semi-hot, but the cottage cheese cools it down.







To create the salad, just cook the noodles, add the flavoring, and toss all three ingredients together, and devour.
This is awesome because you can just toss the rest of the noodles in the fridge for the next day. This salad is great with the noodles either hot or cold.

Of course, you can use any flavor of ramen you like. Creamy chicken ramen is great for salads, too. Or just make the noodles plain and add whatever seasoning you want, like a buttery-garlic flavor using garlic salt and Butter Buds.

Oh yeah, one more thing - if you think ramen is ghetto, it totally isn't. It's actually cooler than you'd think. These wheat noodles are so popular in Japan that every region has their own special variety. For example, in Hokkaido, the specialty is butter corn ramen, which looks gorgeous:

Drool-worthy ramen toppings used in Japan include minced pork, garlic, CRAB (OMG yum), sliced pork, egg, and spinach (fresh or boiled).

Ramen is so popular that one district of Tokyo has vending machines that dispense cans of warm ramen noodles..!!

Still not satisfied? Don't call them ramen. In Japan, ramen noodles are sometimes called chūka soba or shina soba, both of which mean 'Chinese noodles'. (Although the dish is Japanese, the noodles themselves are Chinese-style wheat noodles.)