Meatless Fare

Since last Monday I talked about Meatless Monday, I thought I would offer a dinner meal suggestion. This is actually one of my favorite "go to" vegetarian recipes, especially because my meat loving husband really likes it. If you like curry, you will love it too:

Vegetable and Garbanzo Curry

Another benefit to eating less meat is it saves you money! Meat is expensive, especially high quality, organic, or grass fed meat. A can of low sodium garbanzo beans will run you about $1.00? But still packed with protein, fiber, iron, zinc, magnesium...how can you beat that!

The nutrition information is listed in the recipe. I serve this with brown rice or barley and each 1/2 cup portion of grain will add another 80 calories. One serving of the curry with 1/2 cup rice or barley will be about 300 calories. It is the perfect balanced meal: lots of vegetables, beans for protein and a whole grain of your choice. Enjoy!

Emily Fonnesbeck RD,CD