Quick and Easy

These quick and easy recipes take minimal time, and are great options to add to your mix for weekly meal plans no matter what your schedule is.

Cold Chicken Udon Noodle Salad

Cold Chicken Udon Noodle Salad

This is a refreshing and easy recipe that comes together so quickly and is packed with nutrients. Whole wheat noodles have additional fiber, vitamins, and minerals compared to regular noodles. Using broccoli slaw instead of traditional slaw adds some additional...

Chocolate Fig Bites

Chocolate Fig Bites

These bites from Giada De Laurentiis are one of my go-to sweet treats as soon as figs come into season in late summer. At only 56 calories a piece, this dessert is perfectly chewy, decadent and sweet. In addition to being sweet and delicious, figs are a great source...

Sheet Pan Ratatouille

Sheet Pan Ratatouille

This sheet pan ratatouille is great way to use uo summer vegetables in a unique way. Roasting a bunch of veggies on a sheet-pan is one of the easiest and most delicious ways to enjoy a ton of good-for-you veggies! Roasting adds a unique flavor and is as simple as...

Napa Slaw

Napa Slaw

This dish is packed with vegetables including cabbage, snap peas, bell pepper, and green onion, which provide loads of fiber, vitamins and minerals. Cashews add a punch of heart healthy fats to this dish. This is a great make-ahead dish because cabbage is a hearty...

Mediterranean Bento

Mediterranean Bento

Bento boxes are great tools for helping to control portion sizes. The vegetable portion of the meal should always go in the largest portion of the bento container. We always strive to make half of our meal vegetables or fruit and working with a bento box makes this so...

Creamy Avocado Lime Sauce

Creamy Avocado Lime Sauce

Avocado is a great source of heart-healthy monounsaturated fats as well as potassium and fiber. Replacing saturated fat with monounsaturated (avocados, nuts, olive oil, canola oil) and polyunsaturated fats (fish, sunflower seeds, chia seeds & walnuts) in your diet...

Bang Bang Sauce

Bang Bang Sauce

Adding a flavorful sauce like this to vegetables is a great way to encourage eating more veggie servings, which means getting more vitamins and minerals. A lot of sauces you'll find in take out and restaurant foods are prepared with a whole lot of sugar and sodium....