Smoothies 101
It’s easy to make homemade smoothies. If you buy smoothies out, you may get a fruit mixture which is high in added sugar plus the yogurt used may also be high in sugar. You can make smoothies for breakfast, as a snack, or as a recovery drink after a long run, a century bike ride or a triathlon.
Easy Pumpkin Walnut Muffins
Here’s an easy recipe using two of my favorite foods: pumpkin & walnuts. Pumpkin is high in vitamin A and walnuts are high in omega-3 fatty acids. You can add dark chocolate chips if you must but I think these muffins are great just the way they are!
Out-the-Door Oatmeal Avocado Breakfast Cookies
This recipe contains a number of healthy ingredients which make a good tasting breakfast cookies for your family to grab as they go out the door on the way to school or work! Each cookie is high in dietary fiber and is a good source of protein.
Easy Spicy Chicken Vegetable Soup
Lots of vegetables in this easy chicken vegetable soup recipe. You can make it in a crockpot or on stovetop. Lots of antioxidants to keep you healthy. You choose. You can make it spicy or not. This recipe is gluten-free. I like to serve this with cornbread.
Chicken Spinach Enchiladas
I love this recipe because it’s a way of hiding spinach in a kid-friendly Mexican enchilada if you have a kid who won’t eat any green vegetables. The garlic & cheese overpowers the spinach but the good news is this recipe really tastes good, too. The recipe is excellent as a leftover and can be warmed up easily in the microwave. In addition, you can cut the recipe in half as well before you cook it. If you want to lower the fat and calories in this recipe you can also use fat free cream cheese. You can use canned chicken breast or you can poach your chicken which is very easy to do.
Sweet Potato Pecan Salad
Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C and loaded with carotenoids which are powerful antioxidants which help decrease our risk of both cancer and heart disease and also helps to boost our immune system as well. This a good tasting nutrient filled sweet potato salad.
Blueberry Jerky Snacks
My grandkids love these type of fruit snacks but I don’t like all the food additives. These snacks are easy to make but they take a while to cook. I usually double or triple the recipe but I have lots of grandkids. They love these fruit snacks. Blueberry and strawberry jerky snacks are their favorites!
Vegetarian Chili
Vegetarian Chili By Barbara Day, M.S., R.D. This is one of my favorite vegetarian chili recipes! I like it because it’s loaded with vegetables but my friends and family are clueless that it does not contain MEAT. The bulgur wheat gives it a taste that is like a meat taste but it’s not. I have […]
My Husband’s Favorite Three Bean Chili
This is an easy quick low fat chili that provides an excellent source of lycopene and fiber.
New Ideas for Fast and Easy-to-Make Breakfast for Kids
Kids and adults, too, need to eat breakfast every day. Breakfast means break the fast. Kids will do better in school and parents will do better at work if they eat breakfast.
