This into bean salad is not only great with broiled corn on the cob and grilled chicken but is yet another negative calorie diet recipe!

Who said that negative calorie foods are boring? Let the recipe below proof these people wrong. Lovely sweet and sour taste thanks to the combination of apple cider and molasses.

Negative calorie diet : Barbecue pinto bean salad

For 4 persons:

• 1 15-ounce / 450 gr can of pinto beans. For the sake of healthy recipes: buy only organic pinto beans and rinse them thoroughly when you take them out of the can
   
• 2 medium seeded and coarsely chopped tomatoes
   
• 1 cucumber, chopped
   
• 1 bunch scallions (those green onion stems) trimmed and chopped
   
• 1/3 cup (80ml) prepared spicy barbecue sauce
   
• 2 teaspoons molasses
   
• 3 tablespoons pure apple cider vinegar
   
• for a spicy touch: your choice of hot sauce to taste (I love it with green tabasco)
   
• freshly coriander leaves to taste
   
• freshly grounded pepper to taste or your other favorite spices : since Indians are the masters of delicious vegetarian food, try to find Chaat Masala and add at most 1 teaspoon.
   

Preparing pinto bean salad

1. Mix in a large bowl the apple cider vinegar, barbecue sauce and molasses. Whisk until thoroughly mixed.
    
2. Add the vegetables: scallions, tomatoes and rinsed pinto beans.
    
3. Toss the vegetables to coat the pinto beans with your vinaigrette.
    
4. Season with fresh ground pepper, hot sauce and coriander leaves. In case you make the salad one day ahead, add the fresh cilantro leaves 1 hour before serving.

This pinto beans salad can be made one day in advance to serve with your upcoming barbecue. Store in the fridge but make sure to serve at room temperature.

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Enjoy Breakfast Pancakes: one of the best free negative calorie recipes from the author of the Complete Negative Calorie Food Diet e-Book (only $27 for 3 negative calorie diet recipe cookbooks, 5 MP3 and 1 recipe software package).

But before we start baking this delicious negative calorie food diet, you need to learn why your body keeps on craving for sweets or calories for that matter.

We all know when you walk next to a bakery in the morning, the smell of fresh bread and pastry makes your appetite wet. But did you know you could trigger your appetite without your sense of smell nor taste?

Scientists experimented on mice that weren’t able taste sweets at all. Then they were then given two drinking choices:

1. plain water and
    
2. sweetened water with sucrose.

The mice immediately went for the sugared water. This indicated that mice can sense the presence of calories without taste nor smell.

Unfortunately, humans have a similar mechanism when it comes to detecting calories. No wonder, as in evolution, humans needed to find calories in all ways possible.

To make things worse, our 6th sense for calories is located in the pleasure centers of the brain. Simply put: when calories come into your body, your brain triggers a pleasurable response. In plain English: we love it when we are eating.

But what happens if you drink a diet Coke? Although taste wise it’s similar to normal Coke, your body doesn’t sense the calories, hence doesn’t trigger a pleasurable response.

People that eat for pleasure have no use in drinking diet Coke, unless they finish so much Diet Coke with a similar amount of calories than normal coke.

That’s a good reason to eat as many negative calorie foods as possible…

Negative calorie diet recipe: Breakfast Pumpkin Pancakes

This free negative calorie diet recipe yields 2 servings.

Pancake ingredients:

• 1 cup canned pumpkin
   
• 2 cups Krusteaz pancake mix
   
• 1 1/4 cups water
   
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
   
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
   
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Topping ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons pure maple syrup
   
• 1/4 cup sliced pecans

Preparation:

1. Mix all the ingredients for the pancake batter.
    
2. Make a 4 inch (10 cm) circle of batter on a hot pan or griddle with a small burst of cooking spray.
    
3. When pancakes brown at the edges and bubbles evenly across the top: flip them over to complete cooking.
    
4. Meanwhile toast pecans in a small omelet pan until slightly browned and the fragrance comes out.
    
5. Serve the toasted pecans over the pancakes with heated pure maple syrup.

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