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Healthy Eating: Meals Without Cooking1

Karla P. Shelnutt2

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Recipe for Southwestern Black Bean Salad

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Ingredients:

1 cup canned black beans

1 cup canned corn kernels

1/2 cup salsa

1/4 cup shredded cheese

Salad greens

Low-fat sour cream (optional)

Whole grain crackers

Instructions: Drain and rinse the black beans and corn kernels using a colander if available. Mix with the salsa. Spoon the mixture onto the salad greens and top with the shredded cheese. Garnish with a dollop of the sour cream if desired. Serve with whole grain crackers.

Footnotes

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La versión en español de este documento es Alimentación Saludable: Comidas que no requieren cocinarse (FCS8934-Span). This document is FCS8934, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published May 2011. Revised May 2012. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/.

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Karla P. Shelnutt, PhD, RD, assistant professor, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, Dean.