So simple, but super good. This recipe came to me based off of a pot of quinoa I had cooked the night before and a quick shopping trip to Sprouts. Sometimes the best dishes are thrown together on the fly! 

Many people suggest getting their essential amino acids through combining different sources.  Most believe you can mix and match, just making sure your total diet combines all 9 at one time or another on a regular basis. "Research indicates that eating plant food combinations....

At IIN, we learn over a 100 different dietary theories. No two are exactly alike. As the largest holistic health college, we also get the super cool opportunity of learning from the big dawgs. If they wrote the book on that theory, they are who we get a lecture from. It is awesome becasue they know thier stuff. They have research. They have graphs. They all can show how they cure cancer, alzhymers, cardio vascular disease, egszima, dimentian and allow you to live another 15 years longer. They can back it up. They have data to support everything to make you completely question everything about what you are eating. AND they completely contradict each other. Ugh! One says only eat meat, the other only vegitables, the other no grains, and another all grains. Being the super analytical one that I can be, I started to break them all down. They can't all be right, can they? What do they all have in common? 

Is dairy right for you? This is a big debate and can often be a heated topic. When moving to a healthier lifestyle there are many different opinions about dairy. Should you go low fat, no fat, whole, raw, or eliminate it completely? At the end of the day, you are the only one that can make that determination by listening to your body, but a little science to back up your decision is never a bad thing. 

... sometimes it's best re-purposed in another awesome meal. And that's where this lovely recipe for chicken salad came in!

Combined with the beautiful green grapes from my momma's house and a little Primal Kitchen Mayo, chicken salad is the way to go for a fresh, chicken remake. 

I look for inspiration anywhere I can get it.

Really, the shorter the ingredient list, often the better!

That is where fun places like these come in. You can take an ordinary chicken recipe and make it a wow dish with adding simple, infused ingredients like olive oils or sea salts. 

While we were on vacation I snagged a new favorite of mine- French Citrus Fennel Sea Salt.