18 Food Replacement Hacks that Make Healthy Eating Easy | Swanson Health Products. I'll admit it. I think it's difficult to eat healthy all of the time. I do pretty well most of the time, but the best technique by far that I've used to be sure that I'm eating healthy meals regularly is to simply replace unhealthy ingredients with something healthier. I don't mean replacing it in your recipe... I mean trying to replace it in your kitchen or pantry.
I know that these aren't all perfect replacements that work in every single recipe, but in general, I've found them to be healthier options that work in a lot of recipes. If unhealthy ingredients aren't around, you don't use them. That simple. 18 Healthy Food Replacement Hacks that Make Healthy Eating Easy. Top Recipes of 2013. I love this time of year! Sitting back and reflecting on all of the wonderful things that have happened over the year, thinking about all of the excitement for the coming year, and of course, going through my blog stats and seeing what your favorite recipes were! What? Don’t you all do that too? Haha! I’ve pulled together all of the posts from 2013 and compiled the top 10 most viewed recipes for you! I’m super excited about the results, because a lot of these are recipes that I would count as favorites myself, so it’s nice to see that we agree! Ready for the breakdown? The number one most viewed recipe for 2013 were these Nutella Brownies!
Up next, we have this sweet Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge. In the number three spot we have this Sloppy Joe Tater Tot Casserole! Cookies! It’s a good darn thing that donuts made the list, considering that I seem to share a new donut recipe at least once a month around here! For less than ten bucks at Amazon! More cookies, because duh.
Just Cook It. Green Mac and Cheese. Mac and cheese is the ultimate comfort meal for Mandi and me. We make it when it has been a rough day, or on a Sunday night to relax. It is very easy to make, super addicting when you eat it, and the best thing is there are always leftovers to bring in to work for lunch. We wanted to make some a few days ago so I looked at the site to see what Mac and cheeses I have done on here to make sure we made something different I would be able to post. I was surprised to find only 2 (full) mac and cheese recipes! We brainstormed this one over email in the afternoon and feasted on its amazingness that night.
Pretty basil flower. We are using the tops of broccoli in this meal, but don't toss out that beautiful stalk! This is some sausage I had in the freezer. A food processor would be better, but I was able to blend this up well after a few times of shutting it off and pressing everything down. Everything ready to go. Onions, Broc-stalk, salt, pepper, cayenne. Meanwhile, Mandi made some breadcrumbs. New Years Eve Appetizers. Arancini (Rice Balls) with Marinara Sauce Recipe. My first taste of authentic arancini, or Italian rice balls, was at Stuzzi Ristorante, a tiny restaurant in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood and just steps from where I attended culinary school. Back then, we knew the local hotspot as Bar Stuzzi, and it was a favorite for Italian small plates paired with towering glasses of crisp Prosecco.
I’ll never forget my first taste of arancini, as my eyes went wide at the sight of the baseball-sized rice balls coated in breadcrumbs, deep-fried and served atop a bed of bright red marinara. They were a total triple threat: crunchy, creamy and cheesy. If fried rice isn’t your thing, then arancini are the ultimate excuse for using up what’s left of the ol’ Uncle Ben’s in the fridge. "Jalapeno Popper" Meatballs Recipe #KraftHolidaySavings. Top 15 Recipes of 2013. The Best Broccoli of Your Life. You know you’ve done something right with broccoli when the person you made it for describes it to someone else the next day as “better than biting into a steak.” Those were Craig’s words and they were a marked change from the first words he uttered about the broccoli, before he bit in: “You made broccoli for dinner? Broccoli and sweet potatoes?” Then he did bite in and his eyes lit up.
“Oh my God,” he said. “This is the best broccoli I’ve ever had in my life.” Later he said: “If parents made this broccoli for their kids, kids wouldn’t hate broccoli. They’d beg for it.” So what did I do to the broccoli to make it taste so good? I can’t take any credit. I’m going to have a hard time this week not posting all of the recipes from her new book, Back To Basics. Specifically, she loves roasting vegetables at a high temperature until they caramelize. Normally, broccoli gets squishy when you cook it. Seriously, this recipe is so easy I can recite it without looking at the book. Now, it’s easy. SCORE!! The Best Pizza Dough EVER!! | Bite This. Erik is obsessed with pizza- obsessed.
Actually he’s been on the hunt for ‘proper’ pizza forever. Jersey man at heart…the man needs to be fed good pizza. Period. One of the reasons we got the Big Green Egg is to make pizzas. So we had the gear. Luckily, at the same time I had become really interested in baking bread, knowing that the Egg works like a hearth oven. Sorry…this is a story that continues…a little long, but really exciting. So…reading Peter Reinharts stuff, I then discovered he is obsessed with pizza, like Erik. I figured if this guy knows bread, he’ll know pizza dough. Enough of my rambling…this is the best pizza dough EVER. We also doctored his tomato sauce recipe a bit and found our staple red sauce for the pizzas. Alright, here it is… We use Italian -00- flour, to make an authentic Napoletana dough but you can certainly use regular flour.
SCORE!! Ingredients Instructions You can mix this by hand with a big spoon or in an electric mixer using the paddle (not the dough hook). How to Make A Healthier Salad [INFOGRAPHIC] This article is presented in partnership with Withings, an innovative company creating smart products and apps to help people easily take care of their health and well-being. Known as the creator of the first internet-connected scale, Withings' other products include the Remote Blood Pressure Monitor, Pulse Activity Tracker, Smart Baby Monitor, and Smart Kid Scale.
Sorry to break the news, but "salad" doesn't always mean "healthy. " Often overloaded with calorie-packed dressings, fried toppings, and (delicious) cheesy toppings, a dish that should scream "green and healthy! " ends up screaming "greasy and heavy! " In fact, restaurant cobb salads can contain upwards of 700 calories! With a few modifications, any salad can make a healthy meal. 10 Awesome Food Hacks That Every Home Cook Should Know - LOLS.me. 10 Awesome Food Hacks That Every Home Cook Should Know - LOLS.me.