Healthy Recipe and Exercise of the Week

Amazing Chicken Noodle Soup

Soup, like chicken noodle, is low calorie, delicious, and especially good when fighting sickness. It is so easy to make and so much healthier than canned soup. Also, those who are sick will appreciate that you took the time to make a homemade soup. Soup is wonderful especially during this time of the year, when it is really cold.

Ingredients:

2 bone in chicken breasts

3 stalks of celery, with leaves, chopped

½ large white onion, chopped

2 handfuls of baby carrots, sliced in half

1 handful of sliced mushrooms

2 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped

1 gallon of water

1 tsp of salt 

½ tsp of pepper

10 tsps of chicken soup base with fat

Noodles of any kind

Directions: Boil the water in a huge pot. Then add your chicken and boil for 10 minutes. While this happens, there will be white bubbly stuff that is known as scum; you must take this out.  Then add your vegetables, soup base, and salt and pepper. Turn it to simmer and cook for 3 hours. 

After the three hours, take out the chicken breasts and allow them to cool enough til you can touch them without burning yourself. (This will take about 30 minutes.) Then take the meat off of the bone and cut up the chicken into cubes. Next, put the chicken back in the pot. 

When you are finally ready to serve, cook the noodles in a separate pot and add it to the bowl/cup that you will be serving the soup in. Finally pour the soup over and it’s a perfect meal!

You can add any type of vegetables that you want to this soup.  This can be reheated and used for a healthy lunch for quite a few days.

Squats

This exercise will help your abs, glutes, and arms. Do three normal squats with your legs hip width distance apart. Then bring your arms and left leg toward your abdomen three times. Repeat with the normal squats and the other side.  Do this exercise for a total of five minutes, three times a day for an easy work out!

~Katrina