Kale Chips

 

Kale chips!  You probably can’t find healthier chips than these!  Kale is a leafy green super food that you can incorporate in lots of every day meals like you would spinach.  For example, here’s my Green Smoothie recipe where I used equal parts spinach and kale to make an all-star breakfast on the go!

 

Kale is a member of the cabbage family and primarily grown in the southeastern United States.  Lucky for me, I live in Florida!  Why am I lucky to have kale readily available to me 365 days a year?  Because a one cup serving has just 33 calories, 2 grams of protein, 7x your intake of vitamin K, 206% of your daily vitamin A, and 134% of your daily recommended intake of vitamin C!  That’s a whole lot of nutrition in one cup of greens!!  (Source: blog.foodnetwork.com)

 

This recipe is very simple and has few ingredients. You can mindlessly snack on these and still be happy knowing you just put some great stuff in your body! I got this recipe from JoyBauer.com here.

 

 

Ingredients:

1 Large Bunch (or bag) of Kale; washed, dried and trimmed into large chip size pieces

1 TB Olive Oil

Sea Salt

Directions:

~ Preheat the oven to 400 degrees

~ In a large bowl mix the kale and olive oil.

~ Lay out the kale on two large baking sheets and lightly season with sea salt.

~ Bake the kale for about 8-10 minutes each, watching carefully not to burn. It will start to burn and turn brown quick, so the chips need to be checked on often.

~ Remove from oven and devour!

Enjoy!!