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5 Clean & Quick Ways Eat an Avocado For Breakfast
Avocados are a powerhouse of healthy fats, which means they’re a great choice whenever you’re looking to fill your plate with something wholesome and sustaining. Just half an avocado contains 10 grams of monounsaturated fat and 2 grams of polyunsaturated fat, both of which are important for heart, brain, and blood health.
5 Ways to Turn Lentils into a Hearty Plant-Based Meal
Lentils are the littlest member of the legume family. Even if they’re small, they’re mighty, rocking many health benefits. Just 1 cup contains 18 grams protein, 15 grams fiber, and an array of minerals, particularly iron and folate.
The Back-Pocket Low-Carb Dinners We Make on Busy Weeknights
There are some weeknights when dinner has to be fast and familiar. No trying out that new recipe, no dinnertime acrobatics. On those nights, it’s a backpocket recipe you’re reaching for—one you pretty much make with your eyes closed.
What’s Missing from Your Healthy Meals? A Cookbook Author Reveals the Secret
There are roughly a zillion healthy cookbooks hitting the market every day, and it’s part of our job at Clean Plates to sift through them and bring you some of the best.
7 One-Pot Vegetable Dinners for Easier Weeknights
The last—and we mean last—thing you need after tackling your to-do list and making dinner on a typical weekday is a sink full of dishes. We’re right there with you. So we gathered up some favorite easy vegetarian dinners you can make in one vessel, be it baking sheet, skillet, pot, what have you, so you can eat, clean up and get busy relaxing for the rest of the night.
Only Have 20 Minutes for Lunch? Try One of These Healthy Options
It’s noon, and you’re starving—but your to-do list is insane and it’s not going to accomplish itself. We got you. Here are some lightning-fast healthy lunches you can put together and put away in 20, so you can get on with your day.
Gail Simmons’ Secrets to Easy-Breezy Summer Cooking
We always want to cook crowd-pleasing, chef-worthy food, easily and effortlessly—but especially in the summer. #Goals, right?
Stay Warm with A Spicy Vegetarian Bowl
When it’s freezing out, nothing is more inviting than a steaming bowl of something delicious and comforting. If that bowl also has lots of nutrients to keep your immune system strong and a touch of heat to boost your metabolism, even better.
Roasted Asparagus And Arugula With Hard-Cooked Eggs And Walnuts
Veggie maven Deborah Madison gives us this beautiful asparagus and arugula dish from her new book In My Kitchen (published by Ten Speed Press).
Dandelion Salad with Hard-Boiled Eggs
Dandelions, a bitter green, surprisingly make a great salad. Pair them with hard-boiled eggs and vinegar, and you’ve got yourself a healthy, hearty salad.
5 Fresh Crave-Worthy Spring Salads
Say goodbye to pricey mixed-salad chains and hello to your new fave homemade spring salad recipes. A tasty way to include your veggies, these recipes will help you stay full and fit.
Baby Kale, Avocado & Red Quinoa Salad with Miso-Basil Dressing
Sprightly with caramelized onions and grapefruit, this salad will make a perfect meal with a sprouted grain bread, or a great side salad.
Arugula & Wheat Berry Salad with Cilantro-Tahini Dressing
A mix of ingredients lightly drizzled in a tahini dressing equals a bowlful of goodness
Spinach, Avocado & Hazelnut Salad With Ginger-Tamari Dressing
A tamari-maple syrup dressing enhances the saltiness of the sardines and the piquant fennel, all supporting spinach and avocado.
Grilled Salmon, Chickpeas And Bibb Lettuce Salad With Curried Yogurt Dressing
A salmon bowl that trumps all others, with chickpeas, feta, radish and lettuce. With a great balance of fiber, omega-3s, and calcium, this salad will certainly be a staple.
Steak, Broccoli & Goat Cheese Salad With Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
Grass-fed steaks with goat cheese and broccoli make a hearty dinner any time of year.
Sound Bites: Tom Brady’s Meal Plan, Bob Harper’s Diet & Why Early Birds Are Healthier
Eat like Tom Brady and Bob Harper; why it pays to be an Early Bird; and heart-healthy foods to load up on.
12 Winter Salads We Love From Instagram
Salads aren’t just for summer. Hearty grains and winter’s best produce combine to make a delicious, comforting salad, perfect for a healthy lunch or dinner.
Marcel Vigneron Embraces Eating His Veggies
The Top Chef veteran goes plant-based in his new Los Angeles restaurant
The Top Chef veteran talks about his plant-based L.A. restaurant, Beefsteak, and why eating your veggies is becoming so popular.
Sunflower Caesar Salad
This sunflower caesar salad recipe is from chef Marcel Vigneron of Beefsteak in Los Angeles.
Ginger Kombucha Vinaigrette With Mesclun, Carrots and Radishes
This ginger kombucha vinaigrette is sure to reenergize your salad game.
Crunchy Broccoli Salad With Almonds and Goat Cheese
This broccoli salad is best eaten the day of but the good news is you won’t be able to stop yourself from eating the entire thing!
Barbabietole (Beet Salad) from Chef Mette Williams of Culina
Spice up your salad routine with a beet salad from Chef Mette Williams of Culina.
Jersey Tomato and Wax Bean Salad
This simple vegetarian dish began with the idea of a deconstructed pesto: Sliced tomatoes, crisp-tender wax beans and baby arugula take on new meaning when drizzled with excellent olive oil gently infused with young garlic and topped with slivered sweet basil and roasted pine nuts. This pairs well with the Grilled Chicken with Ruby Plum Compote.
12 Salads We Love From Instagram
Superfood ingredients and simple hacks will up your salad game
The term “salad days” has new meaning when you drool over these 12 sumptuous creations we curated from Instagram, all of which taste of the warmth and ripeness of summer.
Make your salad much more egg-citing
When it comes to salads, a little extra on top can go a long way to turn a pile of raw greens and vegetables…
Eat This Now: Radicchio
The new Love & Lemons Cookbook fires us up with a Balsamic Grilled Radicchio Salad
Jeanine Donofrio’s new release, The Love & Lemons Cookbook: An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking ($35) has enough punchy graphics, fresh food photos and creative recipes to give your familiar routine a major spark of inspiration.
Kale-Carrot Salad with Hardboiled Eggs
Kale, the trendy new green on everyone’s plates, makes its’ way into this simple salad dish. This recipe gets a nutrition boost from egg that makes it high in protein as well. Here are some tips to keep kale fresh as well.
Perfect Detox Salad
Avocado, sunflower seeds, and fresh mint combine in a bright, flavorful salad designed by a nutritionist as part of a digestion-friendly diet.
Greet the greens of spring with these easy warm salad ideas
Warm salads offer the ideal mix of temperature and texture and coax the best flavors out of spring’s nutritious greens.
Using lemon and orange peels in your food will brighten flavors and boost your immune system
Try these easy ways to use the whole orange.
Grapefruit: Ripe For a Citrus Comeback
The recently maligned grapefruit is making a zesty return to meals
Grapefruit’s health benefits are reason enough to incorporate the fruit into your next salad.
Mango Fonio Salad
This recipe is from Senegal: Modern Senegalese Recipes from the Source to the Bowl ($35), by Pierre Thiam.
Panir Sabzi
Panir Sabzi is a Persian platter served with a delicious mix of fresh herbs, mint, walnuts, radishes feta cheese and flat bread. Don’t let the simplicity of this dish fool you.
Mason jars make attractive and versatile serving and packing tools
Make a delicious to-go salad with this easy trick.