The following article will introduce you to a killer muscle building meal. What may surprise some is that this is a salad full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. It also contains great balanced nutrition consisting of protein, carbohydrates and fats. Your body will receive all the nutrition required to keep your body balanced and functioning with optimum hormonal balance and to increase lean muscle mass.

The advantage of eating a great tasting and balanced meal is that you eliminate ravings. This happens because your body is satisified and does not require additional food because it has all the nutrients it needs.

Okay, here is the ultimate muscle building salad:

1/4 cup dried cranberries
3 Tbsp chopped pecans
1/2 of a ripe avocado, diced
2 hard boiled eggs, diced
shredded carrots
approx 1-2 cups mixed leaf lettuce
approx 1-2 cups spinach leaves

Dressing: extra virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and Udo's choice blend (3/4 of total liquid should come from vinegar) Blend all these ingredients together to produce a delicious tasting and nutritious salad. To add extra anti-oxidants, wash it all down with homemade iced green/white/oolong tea lightly sweetened with some raw honey.

The approximate nutrition stats reads as follows:
Protein: 23g, Carbs: 48g, Fiber: 12g, Fat: 45g, Calories: 650

Alright, now let's look at the approx macronutrient breakdown:

Keep in mind that the caloric content of this meal is calibrated to my daily dietary intake of 3000 calories. This figure is for maintenance. If it is too high in calories for your target weight you can simply scale back the ingredients accordingly. The high fat content is fine given the fact that every aspect of this meal is very healthy. As for the carbohydrates, out of 48 grams, 12 grams are fiber. That's a good ratio and the healthy fats and protein will act to slow down the carb digestion, providing a healthy glycemic response and steady controlled blood sugar.

You may be disappointed that this muscle building recipe does not contain a larger amount of protein. If you're a bodybuilder you may in fact be expecting a lot more. 23 grams is in fact pretty reasonable considering that 14 grams of this comes from the highly bioavailable protein from the hard boiled eggs. The fat component will also assist with the protein utilization. This happens because your body does not require the protein for energy, and can use it for muscle development or maintenance. Overall this muscle gaining meal has all the right mix of healthy fibrous carbs, fats, quality protein and plenty of minerals, antioxidants, vitamins and trace nutrients for daily consummation to increase lean muscle mass.

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