Low Fat Baked Chicken (KFC taste)

Passing by KFC and picking a bucket of the notorious fried chicken from the drive through on your way home is probably something that most of us crave every once in a while. If you feel guilty about it when you actually do it, here is an healthier alternative.

Cranberry Spice Granola Bars Recipe

We just love easy food solutions and that's why we bring you another healthy homemade granola bar recipe. This one is filled with nuts and dried fruit! Of course, you can always do some substitutions to your taste. Have these as a home snack or pack them for light lunch snack or energy boost.

Chopped Greek Salad with Chicken

As part of our Mediterranean recipe collection, we chose for you today a light and nutritious dish: Greek salad with chicken. This is perfect as a packed lunch at your work in a contained, side dish or appetizer. The ingredients are colorful and span a number of needed nutrition ingredients. Try it!

Light Mediterranean Cauliflower Pizza (Gluten-Free)

Even if you are not gluten intolerant, this pizza has a healthier crust made from shredded cauliflower and mozzarella! You can also try it with other toppings than the ones suggested here. This is a treat for a person in your family who cannot eat flour-based crusted pizzas.

Give it a try on your next pizza night at home!

Protein Rich Breakfast Recipes (1)

We often forget how important it is to include enough amount of protein in our breakfast too--not just dinner and lunch. We have selected here protein rich recipes for breakfast that you can enjoy and get charged for the day while providing your body with its necessary building blocks.

Enjoy!

Healthy Recipe: Seared Salmon with Cauliflower Colcannon

This recipe provides you with omega-3 fatty acids, which we have been talking about in previous posts for their importance in protecting the heart and boosting the immune system. It also replaces the starchy white potatoes with the more beneficial cauliflower in addition to yellow potatoes and the powerhouse food, kale.

Enjoy!

Healthy Chinese at Home: Sweet & Sour Chicken with Brown Rice

This recipe takes about the same time to order and pick up Chinese food from a restaurant!

There is no saturated fat or extra salt and sugar in this version. You can also substitute chicken with tofu and use any vegetables you like.

Try it and see how it feels to eat healthier version of what you love...

Healthy Chili for Fall

Chili is in a category by itself. Not quite a stew, but not really a soup, chili stirs up feelings of pride and even competition when cook-offs take place in major chili states. Some chili enthusiasts scoff at adding beans, while other cooks always include at least one kind of bean and sometimes several. What matters for your health is that chili can be a healthy dish that follows the New American Plate proportions:

• 2/3 or more vegetables (including cancer-fighting beans) and
• 1/3 or less lean animal protein.

Kale and Chickpea Soup: Add this Powerhouse to Your Menu

You know, I've always passed by this green, leafy vegetable in the grocery store wanting to pick it up but not knowing what on earth would I do with it. Now, after reading how much of a nutritional powerhouse, anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, and detox food it is, I'll try to include recipes of kale in my kitchen whenever I can. Here is the Kale and Chickpea Soup and some valuable background on kale! Enjoy and benefit :)