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Low Calorie Rice: A Vegetable Makes Life Lighter

This low calorie rice is a win-win substitute for real rice......

Laughing Cow Cheese Wedges: A Little Cheese Goes a Long Way

These Laughing Cow Cheese wedges are an interesting take on cheese.....

Purple Pickled Eggs For Spring

How do you make these purple pickled eggs? There is zero FD&C Red #40 in those lovely hard-boiled eggs. That brilliant color is the product of a natural source....

Slow Cooker Butternut Squash

Slow cooker butternut squash is an amazingly simple way to prepare butternut squash without having to do hardly anything....

Roasted Sugar Pumpkin Recipe

This roasted sugar pumpkin recipe is not sweet. Instead it is salty, sour, sweet, and fun to make.....

Roasted Summer Squash Recipe **VIDEO**

This roasted summer squash recipe is so easy because summer squash, unlike winter squash, doesn’t have to be peeled. It arrives ready to go (which is my type of squash).....

SUBWAY Veggie Delight: FAST But Fresh and Healthy?

SUBWAY Veggie Delight is the poster sandwich for a healthy fast food choice. The ingredients include whole wheat bread and a ton of veggies.

Lighter Cheese Sauce Using Cauliflower

You know how pasta and cheese is the ultimate comfort food combination? What if the cheesy part was only 100 calories per cup?...

Butternut Squash Coconut Soup

This soup is HUGE on flavor, low in calories, and incredibly healthy. Win, win, win....

Cucumber & Tomato Bites for a Healthy Snack

The calendar says that summer isn’t over. I, for one, am still pigging out on inexpensive produce.....

Chicken Fajita Stuffed Peppers: Delicious and Beautiful

Sometimes you get lucky and the food you make is both healthy and beautiful....

Change it Up on Taco Tuesday

If you haven’t seen The Lego Movie then you don’t live with an 8 year old boy....

Another Take on Light Pizza

Pizza is one of my forms of kryptonite. Not crappy Domino’s pizza, but well-made, delicious pizza. I am a bit of a pizza tourist....

Fresh Tomato Salsa in Minutes

Fresh tomatoes are rolling into supermarkets and farmer’s markets and they are cheap!...

Lighter Guacamole With A Secret Ingredient

Don’t you love secret ingredients that make something lighter but don’t ruin the taste?...

Kale Pesto Because You Can

Pesto is typically made with fresh basil as the main ingredient (and you need a lot of it)....

Slow Cooker Honey Garlic Chicken Will Stop You From Ordering Take-Out

Take-out can be a scary thing. You have no idea how much oil was used to cook your food. Yikes!...

Zucchini Cheese Fries

I have not been the recipient of any free zucchini this summer but I know it is coming.

Light and Impressively Tasty: Jerk Shrimp with Pineapple

My grill is fired up and I have started poking things with sticks....

Lighter Chicken Cordon Bleu: The Critics Rave!

I am definitely on a chicken bender. Don’t worry vegetarians! One day I promise to stop writing about chicken....