Lentils: Low-Fat, High-Fiber Folate for Healthy Eating

Last year I took a trip to Mexico and I ate lentils for the first time in all of my thirty-two years, I loved them! When I came back home I began looking for recipes, I discovered that vegetarians utilize these tiny beans and that lentils are  a good addition to living a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle.

A healthy … well-balanced lifestyle! Considering the fact that up until a couple of month's ago my idea of a really good dinner was a box of pizza dough, some spaghetti sauce, a cup of mozzarella and some deli pepperoni, I'm not doing so bad jumping on the healthy food trolley.

The lentils I sampled in Mexico were green but there are so many colors, so many ways to cook lentils some ways based on the very color of the lentil itself but the possible combinations to actually use lentils in a family's diet is practically endless.

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