Day 1 - Black Bean Turkey Chili; Pita Nachos

Monday is always a good day to begin a new diet.

These are notes for which book and which page each recipe is on. 

We begin with  Black Bean Turkey Chili and Pita Nachos. 

While the chili is cooking, the pita nachos were prepared.

Full recipe of nachos

Serving of pita nachos

According to the recipe, these two nachos are supposed to be 100 calories.  By our rough calculations (not counting the few cilantro leaves on the top), the entire preparation of nachos [4 nachos] was 80 calories.

RECIPE MODIFICATIONS: We left out the tomatoes, as I do not care for hot tomatoes (except in a soup, or chili). I chose a green salsa of medium heat for the salsa to include in the recipe.

Next time, we will double the recipe and ad some grated cheese.

These were flavorful.  We both enjoyed these.

Serving of Black Bean Turkey Chili

RECIPE MODIFICATION:  Mark left out the salt and red bell pepper. We used canned tomatoes instead of fresh.

Shown in a standaed Corelle bowl, this is one serving of chili.  Mark likes it, but I find it very bland. Even adding salt into my individual bowl, the chili was lacking 'something'.  I may add red pepper flakes to my bowl next time.