Learn 40 different ways to make delicious, healthy salads right on your iPhone with these recipes. PLUS receive our chef and dietitian tips to make your own salads healthy. See a photo gallery for ideas. Email them to yourself and friends. Choose from quick to masterpiece, meals or dessert salads now.
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Learn 40 different ways to make delicious, healthy salads right on your iPhone with these recipes. PLUS receive our chef and dietitian tips to make your own salads healthy. See a photo gallery for ideas. Email them to yourself and friends. Choose from quick to masterpiece, meals or dessert salads now.
Do you eat “value meals” at fast food counters? If so, you might want to read our comparison about a different kind of value food – value for your wallet, value for your health and value for how much food you get to eat for so few calories.
Salad is the biggest “food group” in our recipe categories – we have 100 salads in our new Celebrate Salad eCookbook. Here are 12 GREAT ways to present a salad from a professional chef whose passion is to cook healthy and make a lot of salads.
We are starting to make and photograph all of our recipes – over 1000! First up – 25 salads in 2 days. What we discovered, is that there is more than one way to make a salad! Here are fun tips, photos and recipes so easy you don’t need a recipe. Vote on your favorite or give us a tip and win a prize.
You don’t have to give pizza up – you just have to make it smarter. Watch our high definition video in 1.5 minutes and start making your own pizza at home – this can save you 42,000 mg of sodium and $130 per year over the delivery or restaurant version. Enjoy!
Here is a spring market basket from the produce section of our local store. It has fresh items that are in season now and I got a selection and challenged myself to figure a menu for the day and the week when I got home. The produce section inspires me.
My son loves breadsticks, especially the ones from Domino’s pizza. I am not so keen on the pizza place’s variety because they are higher in fat, sodium and cost compared to ones I can make at home and they are not whole grain. Here is a recipe that is very easy to make and yields great results that are kid tested! These were the hit of a spring break pool party the other night here with teenage boys.
This roasted chicken dinner turned out really good! The roasted beets with the cranberry sauce were a nice touch and the chicken was very moist. I used frozen chicken tenderloins that went into the oven frozen. I found out that they take the same time to cook as potatoes, winter squash, beets, carrots, etc. so they are a great choice for another roasted dinner – where I throw everything in the oven for 45-60 minutes and have a wonderful meal with no attended cooking time when it is done. Here are the ingredients:
Do you want to serve a creative birthday cake made from sorbet and berries? This one doesn’t need batter, baking time, frosting or hours of preparation. It is colorful – made “a la minute” (at the last minute) right at the table. We used chocolate and strawberry sorbet, fresh berries, fresh whipped fat-free cream and vanilla frozen yogurt. The whimsical candles made a nice topping.
This wonderful vegetarian dinner was easy to make. It used 15 different vegetables and only took about 15 minutes to prep. The baking time was 1-1/2 hours – and it was unattended. The house smelled wonderful and now we have leftovers for tomorrow, too.
One of our subscribers called and requested healthy appetizers for the Super Bowl. We got to work right away on the project and decided to have a little fun with a tapas theme. Tapas means …
Our guests were delighted that they were sampling our “super bowl snack fare” – and much to our delight all of the veggies disappeared! Here are three time-saving, calorie-saving holiday entertaining ideas – from Calorie-Free Holiday Tea (great warm or chilled) to a GingerBread house that saved us a lot of time, mess and calories from baking cookies – plus everyone here got to help!



