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This is a side dish I prepare in LARGE quantity, because I use it with Taco Tuesday, topped over chicken/fish and rice, nachos, quick snack, or Ceviche! You name it, we love to add this to our dishes.

Prepare this dish with the basic ingredients and add the optional ingredients to your taste. The basic recipe is great because it helped me introduce vegetables like cucumbers, red bell peppers and red onion to my kids and they still had the natural sweet and tangy taste from the mango’s and small amount of lime juice. This is why it was great to start basic and then add new fun ingredients depending on what I topping the mango chutney with.

Now keep in mind… my family will go through 10 mango’s, cucumbers, and bell peppers by mid-week when I prepare this dish, a cucumber salad, homemade hummus with veggies already chopped up! A key component is SHOP AND CHOP! Go back to the meal plan page and re-read why it is important to plan, shop and chop! When I shop and chop, we all eat healthier around the house. One of our goals I worked to put in place when my kids were younger was/still is: when you are hungry go to the fridge first to eat then you can go to the pantry. The reason behind this is, when any kid comes home from school or has been outside playing all day, they are a different kind of HUNGRY BEAST! You know what I am talking about! I mean, I was like where the heck did my kid go??? Even when they had plenty, plenty of food packed for their lunch. I learned to remember, as this applies to adults and myself as well, you never know what someone has been through in a day…. maybe they had plenty of time to eat lunch (never), the stress that we all experience daily whether good or bad, just be….. just be there and be available. Being available with healthy snacks already prepped helps everyone’s blood sugar stabilize, mental clarity and new energy from fueling your body with clean, no preservatives added food rather than processed with a 20 year expiration date! Take small steps…..you can do this.

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MANGO CHUTNEY

Prep Time20 minutes mins

Servings: 5

Author: AngelaConnell

Ingredients

Ingredients

• 4 mango diced
• 3 persian cucumber diced any cucumber is fine, but I prefer seedless and burpless, more firm cucumbers
• 2 red bell peppers diced
• 1 freshly squeezed lime juice add 2 if making large batch
• salt and pepper to taste

Optional Ingredients

• 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds
• 1/3 - 1/2 cup cilantro leaves chopped
• 1 avocado sliced
• 1 jalapeno diced
• 1/3 cup watermelon when in season