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.

Easy Berry Cobbler

Berries are loaded with antioxidants, high in dietary fiber, provide lots of nutrients, help fight inflammation which is the major cause of many diseases, may help with insulin response and improve blood sugar, include antioxidants: anthocyanins, ellagic acid & resveratrol that protect against some cancers plus they taste good!

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!

Black Bean Sweet Potato Chicken Enchilada Casserole

Here’s an easy-to-fix Mexican recipe the whole family can enjoy. Sweet potatoes contain important vitamins like beta carotene, vitamin C, and are high in the mineral potassium. They also contain soluble and insoluble dietary fiber.

Gluten-free Double Chocolate Brownies

My family loves double chocolate brownies on special occasions. My son and granddaughter are required to eat gluten-free. This recipe is so easy. The hard part is making sure you have all the ingredients. You can also add a frosting but my family likes them plain. I usually sprinkle powdered sugar over the top of the brownies before serving. My granddaughter loved the brownies so much she left some for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve!

Crispy Chicken Nuggets

This is one of my grandkids favorite recipes, their parents and their grandparents, love it as well. Any leftover tenders I use in salads.

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 […]