If you need some new creative sides for the gathering season and the New Year, try these! Fall gathering season is a chance to create tasty and healthy meals for your favorite people - at home. It's not about cooking for days and days and then feeling exhausted. It's about cooking for fun and keeping it simple with delicious flavors. Getting friends and family to help out is always a good idea. And, don't overlook the younger generation because they are full of energy and desire to pitch in, too. Coming up with easy and healthy recipes is a joy of life for a nutrition … [Read more...] about The Gathering Season with Easy, Healthier, Homemade Recipes – Greek Potato Salad and Fresh Pear with Broccoli Slaw
Healthier Vegetables for Thanksgiving and Easy Green Smoothie Recipe
Are you ready for new ideas at your Thanksgiving table? There's a wide world of healthier vegetable dishes to enjoy at Thanksgiving this fall. Or, you could branch out with new vegetable ideas at another upcoming holiday meal any time of the year. We tend to fall into a rut and make the same vegetables year after year...but changing it up is always fun and nutritious, too. Healthier Vegetables at Thanksgiving! Vegetables make a great Thanksgiving even better. The colors, flavors and good nutrition add up to a feast for the eyes and a healthier body with better health … [Read more...] about Healthier Vegetables for Thanksgiving and Easy Green Smoothie Recipe
6 Ways to Enjoy Eating Cranberries
Cranberries have that unforgettable tart flavor that can wake up the sleepiest taste buds. They are a beautiful color and packed with great nutrition, too. With holidays on the horizon, here are 6 new ideas for adding cranberries to your mix of healthy and totally-enjoyable foods: In Muffins: Add 1 cup of chopped up, raw cranberries to a recipe for 12 standard-sized muffins. Or, add 1/2 cup of chopped up, raw cranberries along with 1/2 cup of blueberries for 12 standard-sized muffins. In Whole Grain Pilaf: Add 1/2 cup of dried cranberries to a brown rice pilaf just before adding … [Read more...] about 6 Ways to Enjoy Eating Cranberries
A Healthier Picnic from the Grocery Store
Do you struggle to plan and pack a healthier picnic basket? A quick grocery store trip could be your new, best solution. A picnic in the fresh air is fun in the summer. Or, if it rains, an indoor picnic is fun, too. No matter if you picnic in a park, at the beach, in the mountains, in your backyard, or in your kitchen on a rainy day... there's help for packing up your picnic basket with healthier nutrition. For a more elaborate picnic feast, head over to the deli department with sides from the fruit & veggie department. For a simpler picnic, stroll through the aisles of your … [Read more...] about A Healthier Picnic from the Grocery Store
3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
Are you hungry for Spring and could you use help coming up with some new recipes? Take a moment to think about all the beauty of spring. When a new season of nature emerges from winter, the landscape becomes alive with color, birdsong, and bees. Many possibilities also emerge for making recipes and meals from early spring foods such as spinach, kale, Swiss chard, garlic shoots, spring onions, radishes, asparagus, green peas and a little later, strawberries. Here are 3 recipes to add spring freshness to your meal plans with the special foods of spring. And, to make life easier, here … [Read more...] about 3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
How the Grocery Store Can Help You Plan Dinner
Coming up with a dinner plan isn't easy. So, let the grocery store help as you stroll up and down the aisles. The grocery store is a place of abundant food choices that can be put together into tasty and easy dinners. Here are some tips of how to make use of all the information there. Make a 3-Day Dinner Plan with On Sale Foods Most of us get slightly or very overwhelmed with planning a week of dinners. After all, coming up with 7 meals is a lot of work. Planning 3 dinners is much easier and it is a great start. Here's how the grocery store can help... Dinner #1. Chicken … [Read more...] about How the Grocery Store Can Help You Plan Dinner