Healthy Foods to Try in 2013

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Which healthy foods will you try in 2013?
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Pomegranate Seeds

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Pomegranate Seeds Pomegranate seeds are delicious, but they can be messy. Here’s a quick tip for how to seed a pomegranate the easy and fun way, with no mess! My kid...

Romanesco Broccoli

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Romanesco Broccoli Romanesco was a new discovery for my kids and me this week! This spiraling spectacle looks like a cross between broccoli and cauliflower.

Apple Pear Crisp

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Apple Pear Crisp A mini apple pear crisp is the fresh food version of a big warm bear hug! Filled to the brim with sweet, bubbling fresh pears, apples and cranberries.

Broiled Grapefruit

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Broiled Grapefruit This deliciously simple broiled grapefruit recipe adds a flavorful twist to your table: a sweet and juicy treat without a drop of refined sugar. Gr...

Butternut Squash Soup

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Butternut Squash Soup This easy butternut squash soup recipe is a must for your holiday table! It’s a healthy version of my favorite holiday soup.

Persimmon

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Persimmon Move over baked apples. Persimmon is our new food of the week and the votes are in: it’s a landslide victory!

Homemade Pumpkin Pie

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Homemade Pumpkin Pie Homemade pumpkin pie was one of my Grandma’s specialties.

Cranberry Pomegranate Sauce

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Cranberry Pomegranate Sauce Cranberry pomegranate sauce is a playful twist on a familiar favorite: an easy way to welcome a new food to your holiday table! I have to admit...

Quinoa Stuffing

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Quinoa Stuffing For a healthy twist on a holiday favorite, this easy recipe for gluten-free stuffing is made with quinoa, apples, sweet potato and walnuts.

Veggie Pancakes

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Veggie Pancakes Veggie pancakes? You bet! Carrot and zucchini come together to make a tasty, easy veggie pancake perfect for brunch or to munch at lunch!

Cinnamon Apples

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Cinnamon Apples Cinnamon apples are a favorite fall treat for my kids.

Pumpkin Puree

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Pumpkin Puree Pumpkin puree is easy and fun to make. Head out to the pumpkin patch with your kids, pick out a few sugar pie pumpkins and enjoy.

Tomato Pops

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Tomato Pops Tomato mozzarella skewers with a kid-friendly twist, this easy recipe for Tomato Pops makes the seasonal bounty of fresh picked cherry tomatoes even more delicious.

Homemade Granola Bars

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Homemade Granola Bars Homemade granola bars are an easy and tasty lunchbox treat. This nut free granola bar recipe is made with lots of love and no refined sugar.

Spanish Rice

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Spanish Rice Easy Spanish Rice: Transform a few simple ingredients found at a convenience store into a tasty side dish. Last week we took our healthy eating chal...

Black Beans

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Black Beans Stopping at a convenience store on our road trip, the healthy food choices were scarce.

Healthy Roadtrip Snacks

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Healthy Roadtrip Snacks Our family may be taking a vacation, but our healthy eating habits are not. How we plan to keep eating healthy on the road. Camera. Check. Sunscreen....

Butter Lettuce Wraps

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Butter Lettuce Wraps Dirt (along with butter lettuce) is our new food of the week. It may be what we need to stay healthy.

Nut Free Basil Pesto

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Nut Free Basil Pesto This week we dirty up our diets with nut free basil pesto made straight from our garden. Dig in! Our new food adventures this week continue to focu...

Watermelon Popsicles

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Watermelon Popsicles A summer heat wave inspired us to chill out and make a frosty treat: watermelon popsicles with a twist (of lime). Opening the door to the back g...

Veggie Pizza

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Veggie Pizza Veggie pizza grown from our school garden will certainly challenge the debate that pizza is a vegetable. Our school lunch menu listed “pizza” as one...

Sugar Free Strawberry Lemonade

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Sugar Free Strawberry Lemonade A sip of sunshine, this strawberry lemonade is worthy of any roadside lemonade stand. Even better that it’s made without refined sugar!

Healthy Zucchini Muffins

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Healthy Zucchini Muffins Healthy zucchini muffins were the pick of the week in our new food adventure. A tasty treat for kids (and adults)! I’m a sucker for a warm basket of fr...

Pineapple Smoothie

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Pineapple Smoothie A recent trip to Hawaii left us longing for the tastes of the islands. What better way to bring back a sweet Hawaiian breeze than with a healthy pineapple smoothie?

Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps

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Healthy Chicken Lettuce Wraps Plan a "build your own dinner" night with healthy chicken lettuce wraps, featuring fresh mint from the garden. As much as I love my greens, I am cer...

Cherry Compote

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Cherry Compote Life’s a bowl of cherries – especially when you’re enjoying the simple pleasures of homemade cherry compote. On an early morning stroll my daughter ...

Artichokes

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Artichokes Teach your kids how to cook artichokes for a fun and tasty family treat. Standing at attention, peaks pointing to the sun, a beautiful bounty of art...

Cauliflower

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Cauliflower A visit to our school garden ignited our new food adventure this week: how to prepare cauliflower. A school garden is a true treasure. At its best, i...

Friendship Garden Soup

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Friendship Garden Soup Inspired by Michelle Obama’s healthy lunchtime challenge, my 8 year old daughter created this simple recipe.

Fava Beans

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Fava Beans Farmers’ market tables are filled with fava beans! What do they taste like? How do we prepare them? Can we grow them?

Strawberries

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Strawberries Imagine the giddylaughter heard from kids picking and eating their way through an open farm field covered with fresh, ripe strawberries. Pure joy.

Healthy Caesar Salad

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Healthy Caesar Salad Move over mayo! Jamie Oliver’s healthy Caesar salad is coming to dinner. Last week I started on the journey of introducing Caesar salad to my kids, s...

No Bake Cookies

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No Bake Cookies   Healthy no bake cookies continue to be a favorite on our lunchtime menu. Quick and easy (for you or your kids) to make, these tasty no ba...

Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes

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Whole Wheat Banana Pancakes Health up your hotcakes! Banana pancakes get a whole lot healthier with the addition of whole-wheat flour. Thanks to Jamie Oliver, they’re delicious.

Asparagus with Ginger

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Asparagus with Ginger Celebrate spring with the perennial harbinger of buds and butterflies: asparagus.

Kale Chips

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Kale Chips Snack attack! We all have them (kids and adults included). The trick is to make the snacks you grab healthy. Here’s how! It’s that dreaded no man’s ...

Cinnamon Beef Noodle Soup

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Cinnamon Beef Noodle Soup An easy, weeknight-worthy twist on the winner of the 2011 Taipei International Beef Noodle Soup Festival: Slow Cooker Cinnamon Beef Noodle Soup.   ...

Homemade Tomato Sauce

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Homemade Tomato Sauce That’s amore! No longer will plates be brimming over with boring buttered pasta. Enjoy a boost of color with thisdeliciously easy, homemade tomato sauce.

Italian Chicken

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Italian Chicken Need an easy recipe for busy weeknights? Here’s how to make Italian chicken that's deliciously simple and tasty. Less than 15 minutes to fabulous! Th...

Gluten-Free Fruit and Berry Crisp

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Gluten-Free Fruit and Berry Crisp Can gluten-free be tasty? Oh yes! This delectable gluten-free fruit and berry crisp will have your kids licking the bowl and screaming for seconds! T...

Wild Salmon with Quinoa

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Wild Salmon with Quinoa A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! This jewel of a recipe for quinoa with wild salmon is simple and delicious.
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