From the category archives:
My friend Kalyn is looking for No-Cook Pasta Sauce for Nights When It’s Too Hot to Cook. Here’s one I created last summer when I had my garden was bursting with tomatoes and basil. The exact nutritional and Weight Watchers POINTS values will depend on what type of pasta you use – regular, whole wheat [...]
When learning to eat healthy, you’re always told to “eat your colors.” Well, with Independence Day just around the corner, why not go with a red, white and blue theme when making a healthy summer salad for your picnic or cookout? Yes, you can incorporate our national colors into healthy eating – just ask the [...]
My children attend a YMCA summer camp at a local elementary school. They’re served lunch by the school district as part of a summer nutrition meal program where all kids under the age of 19, no matter what their need, eat for free. Many moms are taking advantage of this – just another sign of [...]
This recipe from the Flat Belly Diet Family Cookbook is perfect for grilling season. While you’re marinating the fish, chicken or pork chops, you can prepare and get these fries in the oven. When they’re just about done, put your protein on the grill. For an extra antioxidant boost, try this recipe with sweet potatoes [...]
Today’s guest post is by Holly Clegg, author of the soon to be released, Too Hot In The Kitchen: Secret to Sizzle at Any Age, as well as many other fabulous healthy cookbooks. You can check Holly out at The Healthy Cooking Blog, on Twitter and on Facebook. Keep it simple: splash on flavor to [...]
I recently sat in a webinar about greening your kitchen with Big Green Cookbook author Jackie Newgent. I’m pretty good about recycling and composting. (When my electric composter is working. It’s broken – again.) I buy locally grown produce and organic food, we have a garden, and my husband hunts and fishes. However, I never [...]
If you’ve been watching Jaime Oliver’s Food Revolution, you’ve seen his frustration with what parents are packing in their children’s lunch like Lunchables, chips and Skittles. (Have you signed Jamie’s petition yet? Please do!) Making healthy meals that your kids will like really isn’t that hard to do. One terrific resource is Aviva Goldarb’s The [...]
I recently attended a healthy food product event, which you can read about at Mom Central Food. While I was there, I learned about cooking and baking with soft spreads, something I had never considered since I swore by olive oil and organic butter, and even made my favorite cake frosting recipe with Spectrum Organic [...]
Crofter’s Organic Superfruit Spreads – try it in yogurt, toast or in a Low Fat Trifle
Piccolo Foods pestos, spreads and tapenades: indulgences you can feel good about
Slow cooker recipes: homemade onion soup mix and a venison shoulder roast
Cooking with Kashi: Multigrain Pilaf and Pine Nut Stuffed Vegetables
If asparagus is on sale at the grocery store, it must be spring. I love asparagus sautéed in olive oil, seasoned with a little salt and pepper and topped with fresh squeezed lemon juice or a balsamic reduction. I even get the kids to eat asparagus by telling them it will make their pee smell [...]
Thanksgiving sides: Oven Roasted Asparagus and Smashed Sweet Potatoes
Mother’s Day Dishes from Taste of Home Healthy Cooking: Ham and Cheese Strudel and Sweet Berry Bruschetta
Protein Potato Salad with Asparagus Spears and Nectarine Slices
Five Days of Weight Watchers Frittata: Asparagus, New Potato and Chive Frittata
This high fiber and protein and low in Weight Watchers POINTS recipe comes from The Vegetarian Slow Cooker: Over 200 Delicious Recipes by Judith Finlayson. She believes that more people than ever are choosing to reduce their consumption of meat for health, environmental and financial reasons. Instead, they’re choosing to eat diets rich in vegetables, [...]
Healthy summer salad tips from Holly Clegg
Healthy Valentine’s Day dessert – Very Vanilla Fruit Salad
Summer salads: Holly Clegg’s Marinated Shrimp Edamame Salad
Eating healthy on a budget: Summer Vegetable Ragout from Dollars to Donuts
Healthy summer slow cooker recipes from the Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook
The Pasta Queen on eating healthy on a budget
LHJ’s Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
Healthy eating with the Mayo Clinic’s Morning Glory Muffins
Flat Belly Diet Family Cookbook: Crunchy Crust Mac and Cheese
A Father’s Day recipe from Flat Belly Diet Family Cookbook: Chocolate Stuffed French Toast
Recipes from the Flat Belly Diet Cookbook: banana pancakes
Flat Belly Diet Recipes: Peanut Butter-Stuffed French Toast
Holly Clegg’s healthy Thanksgiving cooking: Yam Corn Bread Stuffing
More healthy Thanksgiving cooking with Holly Clegg: Sweet Potato Casserole
Quick Shrimp and Corn Soup from Holly Clegg’s Trim & TERRIFIC Gulf Coast Favorites
Two more recipes from the Fix-It and Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook
Weight Watchers Eat! Move! Play! and a kid friendly hummus snack
Fix-It and Enjoy-It! new Healthy Cookbook
Hoisin-glazed scallops
Honey week: healthy honey snacks for kids
Flat Belly Diet recipes: Huevos Rancheros
Healthy slow cooker fajita stew
Happy St. Patrick’s Day: making slow cooker corned beef and cabbage healthier
Fix-it and Forget-it: slow cooker machaca beef
