I have been a food snob for years and am proud of it. Lets just say I didn't gain my weight on McDonald's french fries. so my new quest is to find delicious , healthy, protein packed recipes. To all the expierenced VSGer's please let me know if this recipe is a keeper.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
  
• 2 (6-ounce) bags baby spinach
  
• 1 (15-ounce) can cannelloni beans, drained and rinsed
  
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  

Directions

In a large nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil, over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add 1/2 of the spinach and cook for 2 minutes until wilted. Repeat with the remaining spinach. Let the mixture cool for a few minutes.

Place the remaining olive oil, spinach mixture, cannelloni beans, lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, salt, and pepper in the bowl of a food processor.

Blend until the mixture is smooth. Transfer to a small serving bowl. Serve with endive spears, crostini or pita chips.

I don't see anything wrong with it, although you're not going to be able to eat much at a time for a long time. You may want to consider whether you have someone around to help you eat this. Also you'll probably want to use veggies instead of chips/breads to dip this for eating...and you're still not going to be able to eat much at a time.

What are the nutrition facts for this recipe?

If you use My Fitness Pal, you can plug the ingredients in, select a serving size and it will give you the nutritional values for the calories, fat, protein, etc. I typically do this with recipes to make sure the protein is high enough to be worth it to eat.

Indymom, You are so close to the no longer obese goal! Congrats!!

If you use My Fitness Pal, you can plug the ingredients in, select a serving size and it will give you the nutritional values for the calories, fat, protein, etc. I typically do this with recipes to make sure the protein is high enough to be worth it to eat.

Thank you for the website . I added the ingredients to it and modified it by ommiting the olive oil and will substitute it for white wine. Did it for 6 servings. Came out great Cal: 85, Carbs 16, Fat 0, Protein 7

Ingredients Calories Carbs Fat Protein Progresso - Cannellini White Kidney Beans, 1 container (1 4/5 cups ea.) 385 70 0 28 Great Value - Lemon Juice, 3 tsp 0 3 0 0 Generic - Balsamic Vinegar, 1 tbs 5 3 0 0 Dole - Packaged Salad - Baby Spinach, 2 container (9 cups ea.) 120 18 0 12 Add Ingredient Total: 510 94 0 40 Per Serving: 85 16 0 7

Those are pretty good stats - if you're not a low-carb person, that is. I try to make sure anything I eat has at least 5 grams of protein per 100 calories (or ideally less, of course).

Lissa, thanks! I didn't weigh today, tomorrow is my official weigh-in day and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that I hit it tomorrow!

Your dip sound WONDERFUL! I'm going to try it tomorrow.