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36 Healthy Taco Recipes You Need to Try. Tacos have gone from unappetizing fast food to Tuesday night staple and gourmet food truck fare.

36 Healthy Taco Recipes You Need to Try

Filled with meat or veggies, stuffed inside a soft or hard tortilla, and topped with cheese or guacamole (or both!) , the possibilities are endless. And while there’s nothing wrong with a beefy, cheesy handheld, there are plenty of delicious ways to make healthy tacos too. These 36 variations of the Mexican mainstay—organized by the main ingredient—all start with wholesome add-ins. Some keep things classic, others take on Asian influences, and more go vegan or gluten-free. Vegetables 1. This recipe isn’t kidding about focusing on veggies, packing in a whopping eight of ‘em including the salsa ingredients. 2. The flavors in these tacos may give off a distinct Thanksgiving vibe, but who are we to object to healthy, holiday-themed meals any time of year? 3. Portobello mushrooms are widely known as meat’s vegetarian understudy. 4. 5. A roundup of taco recipes without an option for breakfast?

52 Healthy Meals in 12 Minutes or Less. Being hungry sucks (it’s a scientific fact). So why spend hours cooking a gourmet feast when a nutritious meal could be only 12 minutes away from getting from the kitchen to your plate? Skip the grumbling tummy, the hangriness, and the cranky guests, and serve up any one of these 52 healthy meals that are so quick and easy, you’ll wonder why you ever ordered takeout. 1. Cacao and Blueberry Smoothie Um, YUM. 2. Say goodbye to boring toast. 3. You can have salad for breakfast, too. 4. This healthy breakfast is a little more of a healthy dessert, but we’ll let it slide. 5. Take a trip to the tropics with this pineapple and coconut flavored breakfast. 6. It doesn’t get much better (or easier!) 7. This blogger has recipes for four different flavors of awesome instant oats: blueberry vanilla, chocolate banana, walnut and date, and strawberries and cream. 8. Peanut butter toast might be a classic, but that doesn’t mean it has to be boring!

88 Unexpected Snacks Under 100 Calories. We’ve all been there: hunger striking before dinnertime, a sudden craving for something sweet, the need for a quick energy boost before working out.

88 Unexpected Snacks Under 100 Calories

The solution? A small and satisfying snack that won't tip that calorie count over the edge—after all, a quick nibble can easily turn into the calorie equivalent of a full-blown meal. These flavorful, low-calorie treats can please any palate while still leaving room for dinner. Sweet Snacks 1. 1/2 frozen banana dipped in 2 teaspoons dark chocolate chips, melted 2. 28 grapes (about 1 scant cup), placed in the freezer for 2+ hours 3. 1/2 cup nonfat Greek yogurt with 1 dash cinnamon and 1 teaspoon honey 4. 1 Fig Newton with 1 teaspoon peanut butter. My Mother's Peasant Bread: The Easiest No-Knead Bread You Will Ever Make.

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My Mother's Peasant Bread: The Easiest No-Knead Bread You Will Ever Make

When I tell you that, if forced, I had to pick one and only one recipe to share with you that this — my mother’s peasant bread — would be it, I am serious. I would almost in fact be OK ending the blog after this very post, retiring altogether from the wonderful world of food blogging, resting assured that you all had this knowledge at hand. This bread might just change your life. The reason I say this is simple. I whole-heartedly believe that if you know how to make bread you can throw one hell of a dinner party. And upon tasting homemade bread, people act as if you’re some sort of culinary magician. The Magic of Peasant Bread So what, you probably are wondering, makes this bread so special when there are so many wonderful bread recipes out there?

But this is a no-knead bread that can be started at 4:00pm and turned out onto the dinner table at 7:00pm. Five Favorite Peasant Bread Variations How to Store Bread Just-mixed dough, ready to rise: Print Description. Vegetables that boost your immune system. (NaturalNews) Because of the proliferation of health problems, people are constantly looking for ways to strengthen their immune system.

Vegetables that boost your immune system

While most resort to finding supplements and other health products, you can actually raise your immunity by simply eating your vegetables. Following is a list of vegetables you should eat for an improved immune system.