Crunchy Chopped Salad
Salads are not really my thing. I mean all that healthy lettuce and stuff. But chopped salads are different.
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Winter Lentil Soup
The first time I tried making this soup we had some friends coming over for dinner. Although I’d never experimented with the soup before, I had an idea in my head of what I was looking for and so I “tested out” this idea of a recipe on my company. Aaaaanndd …
Coconut Walnut Milk
Rich, creamy Coconut-Walnut Milk in less than 5 minutes.
Gluten-Free Almond Orange Cookies
Looking for a yummy but healthy cookie to serve at your family gathering or to include in your Christmas cookie exchange? Look no farther. Almonds and orange zest give these easy-to-make cookies a wonderful flavor … and because they’re very low in refined fats and sugar you can enjoy this holiday food treat without worrying about adding extra pounds.
Sliceable Vegan Cheese
While vegan cheeses don’t carry the health risks that dairy cheese does, they often don’t taste very good and are usually still very high in fat. Here’s a recipe for a sliceable vegan cheese that is delicious, healthy, and easy to make.
Vegan, Nut-Free Ranch Dressing
After posting my Low-Fat Creamy Italian Dressing recipe, several of you have asked for
Maple Wild-Rice Stuffed Squash
This easy-to-prepare, healthy, holiday side features wild rice, a beautiful Native American grain-like seed that is loaded with flavor and nutrition.
15 in 15
No time to cook? Here are 15 delicious, healthy, vegan meals (loved by meat eaters too) that you can make in 15 minutes or less.
Healthy Maple-Nut Granola
A typical granola recipe calls for about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of honey and/or sugar for every 3 cups of oats. And granola you can buy at the grocery store often packs in over a cup of sugar for every 3 cups of oats. That’s as much sugar per serving as a Twinkie!
Butternut Tofu Scramble with Avocado
Harvesting the butternut squash from our garden was so much fun this year. Every step I took, every one of those gigantic leaves I peeked under, there was another squash! Loads and loads of them.
So after 10 very looooong days of waiting for ..
Vegetarian, Gluten-Free Stuffed Peppers
It’s the wedding of the century.
Artichoke-Stuffed Potatoes
This post is for those of you who, like me, typically avoid fancy-pants food that might take more than 20 minutes to make and which would’ve tasted just as good if all ingredients were just thrown together in a pan without the uppity presentation.
Avocado Tomato Salad
Avocados. Perhaps the best food in all of creation. I really do like them, and they’re very good-for-you – but I think we’ve talked about that already. But, really, this simple salad has amazing flavor. And it even has a…
Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free Apple Crisp
Americans are eating too much sugar and this factor is contributing to our high rates of obesity, not to mention other health problems. Here is a delicious fruit crisp recipe that not only is sugar-free, but is also a good source of fiber and other nutrients.
Garbanzo (Chick Pea) Pesto Salad
Ten minutes – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 – and you’re ready to introduce your taste buds to this full-of-flavor, I’m-gonna-miss-you-summer, super-healthy Garbanzo Pesto Salad!
Fresh Peach Smoothie
One serving of this sugar-free, fresh peach smoothie offers you 34% of your daily needs for vitamin C, 14% of your iron needs, and 43% of your RDA for manganese – which is a mineral that helps build strong bones, reduce cholesterol levels, stabilize blood sugar, and reduce inflammation.
Summer Picnic Makeover
Most typical picnic food is laden with saturated fat and calories. For example, a typical potato salad recipes gives you 350 calories, 20 grams of fat, 170 mg cholesterol per serving! I’ve taken a few picnic classics and given them a makeover for healthier outdoor eats … plus I’ve added a few new ideas that are sure to become your new favorite take-along-friendly foods.
Oil-Free Pesto
Even so-called “healthy” oils, like olive oil and coconut oil, are still a refined/processed food and bad for your health. Here’s a rich and creamy (and easy!) pesto recipe without a drop of oil in it.
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