Angie and I have been experimenting with a variety of quinoa recipes lately and absolutely loving it! It’s a great alternative to brown or basmati rice and oats, which are staples in my diet. One of the big benefits is that it’s gluten free, which is great for our fellow Fat Loss Quickie friends who have an intolerance or allergy to gluten.

Here are the ingredients in this recipe that Angie created recently:
1 cup Quinoa
2 cups vegetable broth
1 cup chopped onion
4 garlic cloves
2 Tsp crushed chillies
1 Tsp cumin
1 Tsp black pepper
1 Tsp red pepper flakes
1 cup frozen corn
1/2 cup cilantro

Directions:

Soak quinoa for 3-5 minutes, then rinse.

Bring quinoa, vegetable broth, crushed chillies, cumin, and black pepper to a boil. Then simmer for 30 minutes.

While the quinoa is simmering, fry up the onion and garlic in a little bit of olive oil.

After 30 minutes, add the onion-garlic mix, the corn, and cilantro to the quinoa and let simmer for 5 minutes.

That’s it… Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts: 4 servings
234 calories
44 grams of carbs
8 grams of protein
3 grams of fat.

Of course, you don’t need to add the corn and you can cook it in water instead of vegetable broth if you wish.

To achieving your limitless potential,

Scott and Angie Tousignant

About The Authors

Scott and Angie Tousignant have been helping busy men and women, just like you, transform their body and life for over a decade. This dynamic duo prides themselves on providing a balanced and practical approach that will motivate and inspire you to become the best YOU that you can be.

Scott and Angie have dedicated themselves to sharing their exact workouts, what they eat, and how they stay motivated to continue transforming their body’s and life.

Their line up of body transforming programs includes, Metabolic Masterpiece, Sizzlin’ Circuits, Core Plus More, Girl Empowered, 10-Minute Metabolism Booster, and More Love Less Fat.

We’re excited to share in you successful body transformation!

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Several months ago I informed my valued Fat Loss Quickie blog readers that I had just received my first order of Full Strength, which was a 14 day trial containing 7 packages of vanilla powder, 7 packages of chocolate powder, the best darn protein shaker that I’ve ever used, and an awesome t-shirt.

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If your email inbox looks anything like mine, you can find a message every day from a fitness and health “expert” warning you about foods that you should avoid because they’ll make you fat or exercises that you should avoid because they’ll break your back.

If you were to combine the entire list of everything that these “experts” tell you to avoid there would be nothing left. I couldn’t even breath without polluting my body and causing harm to it. So what’s left? Are we all doomed to be fat and unhealthy? If that’s the case, at least these “experts” have provided us with a gazillion and one excuses why we are fat and unhealthy.

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I’m excited to share a tasty gluten free recipe with you today, courtesy of my friend Jennifer Finley, author of Gluten Free Abs. This healthy meal is a Coconut Red Snapper Salad…

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With the growing need for gluten free recipes, Angie and I have called upon our friend Jennifer Finley, author of Gluten Free Abs, to help us provide some gluten free alternatives to your nutrition plan.

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With Metabolic Cooking, you take the stress out of meal planning and calorie counting. Nothing makes it easier for me to burn fat, than having a list of delicious and healthy recipes that also include the calorie content of each meal.

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We have a new favorite healthy homemade snack that our entire family enjoys. Our kids can’t stop raving about them and we feel great as parents when we put this healthy snack in their lunch. Lucky for us there are no kids with peanut allergies in our childrens classrooms.

Healthy Snack Bars

Here are the ingredients:

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There are two common trends that I continue to see amongst women and men who successfully go through a body transformation. These two important keys to their fat loss success are…

a) They planned their meals and workouts in advance.
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Each successful individual followed these two important fat loss keys to varying degrees. Some of them love to go by the numbers, track their calories, track their weight and body fat percentage, and chart their progress on graphs. They find great joy in this and the visual displays of their progress or lack of progress was very motivating. Others prefer to simply keep a food journal, listing what they ate and the size of their portion, (small, medium, or large).

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