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How To Make Heart Shaped Cupcakes. Need Some Healthy Recipes to Keep Your New Years Resolutions on Track? I don’t know about you- but I am always looking for healthy recipes for my family that actually TASTE GOOD!

Need Some Healthy Recipes to Keep Your New Years Resolutions on Track?

I’m not talking about only raw vegetables- I am talking healthy food that has flavor, taste, and makes everyone happy! These are a few of my favorite recipes that I have made in the past and are family approved! Mozaralla, Tomato and Avocado Salad I made this for Christmas – and it was delicious! It is Caprese salad with avocado added in- Avocado added to anything is good! {Via Ashley’s Cooking Adventure} Stuffed Zucchini- Even my kids love this! {Via Kayotic.nl} Mexican Shrimp Salad - One of my favorite s EVER! {Via Skinny Taste} Caprese Pasta Salad This is one of my recipes. {Via AubutFamily.com} Coconut Shrimp Soup {Via Gimmesomeoven.com} So I am obsessed with Shrimp and Avocado apparently!

French bread pizza $3.51 recipe / $0.88 each. Ecstasy.

french bread pizza $3.51 recipe / $0.88 each

Pure ecstasy. This recipe turned out even better than I had imagined. You know, when you take that first bite and you’re not even done chewing before you have to let out a muffled “Woah…” This roasted vegetable french bread pizza with pesto and ricotta made me do that. The pesto sinks into the bread and creates an almost garlic bread type base, the ricotta gets warm and creamy, and roasted vegetables are, well, they’re just heavenly (one of my favorite things on the planet, actually)! I’m going to be making this one over and over and over. The cost of this recipe got a little out of hand, but there are several ways you can rein it in. Oh boy, I can’t wait until I get hungry again so that I can have more… roasted vegetable french bread pizza Total time Total Cost: $11.71 Cost Per Serving: $1.95 Serves: 6 Ingredients Instructions Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Notes *This works best on soft “French bread” rather than real baguettes, which are much more tough. And then O-M-G. Blueberry & banana "yoatgurt" $0.64 per bowl. I ran across the concept of “yoatgurt” (yogurt and oatmeal) the other day on Bran Apetit and was immediately intrigued.

blueberry & banana "yoatgurt" $0.64 per bowl

I love oats and I love yogurt so substituting the cold milk that I usually pour over my oats with cold yogurt seemed quite natural and delicious. It appears that fans of yoatgurt usually opt for greek yogurt but I really can’t see paying more money for yogurt that has simply had some of the water strained out. Yeah, I know, its thicker, creamier and yummier but plain ‘ol vanilla yogurt did me just fine here.

Lemon yogurt would have been even more delicious with the blueberries and bananas… Mmmmm… Anyway, I usually make steel cut oats but I wanted the flakey, flat texture of old fashioned rolled oats for this recipe. Welcome to the wonderful world of yoatgurt, I hope you stay a while. blueberry & banana yoatgurt Total Cost: $0.64 per bowl Serves: 1 Ingredients Instructions I know, I can hear you now, “HALF of a banana? $5 Dinners™ — Feeding the Family for $5 or Less.