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Recipes

5 New Things You Need to Do With Cucumbers This Summer

Cucumbers are 96% water, so it’s no wonder it’s a vegetable we reach for without hesitation when hydration is on our mind throughout the hot summer months. 1 cup, with its peel, also contains just 16 calories and is a good source of nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin K, magnesium, and potassium.

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6 Ultra-Refreshing Drinks to Sip While We Still Have Summer

No doubt you’re soaking up every last bit of sun, sand and outdoor fun that summer has to offer, especially now that it’s August. When you finally step back inside, mix up one of these super thirst-quenchers–they’ll cool you off and bring on that second wind, so you can shimmy into a sleeveless dress and head back out.

Tips

3 Things to Read Before You Do Any Grilling This Weekend

The weekend is here and you’ve got a packed schedule of hanging out with family and friends and making sure there’s something good to eat.

Tips

How To Grill Like A (Healthy) Pro

These ‘cue tips will improve the thrill of the grill plus provide positive effects on your health without sacrificing taste or pleasure.

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Meet Your New Favorite Summer Dish

A rice salad with fresh veggies, herbs and lemon vinaigrette—it’s a total crowd pleaser. Make one that’s even more delicious and healthier with your secret weapon: RightRice.

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Yes, Your Fave Summer Recipes Can Be Even Better

Whether you’re grilling, tossing, sautéing or baking your favorite summer dishes—or all of the above—you can give them a serious upgrade by using top-quality extra virgin olive oil.

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4 Lower-Sugar Boozy Blended Drinks

We’re hanging on to summer for as long as we can—so while it’s still hot out, we’re chilling with blended cocktails. But so many of our favorite drinks are loaded with sugar, which can really ruin the party.

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A Chef’s Twists on a Fave Late-Summer Dish

Gazpacho—it’s a classic summer treat. Toss a bunch of fresh vegetables in a blender and bam—you have a sophisticated, cool, healthy chilled soup that’s perfect in bowls on its own or served in small cups as the start to a grill-fest.

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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?

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Give Your BBQ a Healthy Upgrade

It’s almost cookout season, which also makes it swimsuit season, plus the time of year you most want to have tons of energy to play outside and enjoy the sunshine. Luckily, with a few simple strategies, you can get your grill on and still look and feel amazing.

Recipes

Watermelon “Pizza” = A Perfect Labor Day Recipe

If you like watermelon feta salad, you’re going to flip for this delicious, seasonal dish

Planning the menu for your next outdoor BBQ?​ Watermelon pizza is light, healthy and oh so pretty for summer. Our go-to recipe (see below) embraces seasonality and is bursting with bright flavor.

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5 Creative Ways To Enjoy Watermelon

Nothing screams, “Summer!” like a cool, refreshing wedge of watermelon. And with good reason: Not only is watermelon cooling and hydrating (it’s about 92% water, hence the name), it’s also loaded with vitamins A and C, lycopene (which may help protect your skin from sun damage), and potassium, an important nutrient to replenish after a sweaty workout.

Tips

How to Grill and Stay Green

Burgers, corn on the cob, asparagus, chicken skewers, eggplant—grilling is one of the best parts of summer. Before you fire up the grill for your next cookout, consider the potential health and environmental impacts, including carcinogens in burned meat, greenhouse gas emissions from the grill and chemical additives in charcoal.

Recipes

Chill Out with Frosty Grownup Ice Pops

Remember being a kid, and having those long, hot days at camp, when you got a sweet, drippy ice pop to help you cool off? You’re about to enjoy that feeling again—minus the excess sugar, artificial dye that turned your mouth purple (fun as a kid, not cute as an adult), and sickly sweet flavor.

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7 Soothing, Natural Sunburn Remedies

No matter how diligent you are with the sunscreen, burns happen. But you don’t have to suffer with painful, itchy, red skin. With these soothing, natural remedies, you can feel better fast.

Healthy Pantry

8 Foods That Help Cool You Down

Warming up in winter is easy, just throw on another cozy layer. But how are you supposed to chill out in the sweltering summer months, aside from pumping up the A/C? You may just find the secret to beating the heat on your plate.

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Our Favorite Protein For A Lean Healthy Body This Summer

If you’re like us, you’re finding that summer doesn’t provide relief from the crazed morning routine of racing to work, a spin class, or getting the kids ready for camp. With no a.m. time, a hot kitchen, and the desire to look great in our bathing suits, we need something quick that tastes great, keeps us energized and helps us look our best. Turns out, all we need is a morning smoothie powered up with WelleCo’s plant-based SUPER ELIXIR Nourishing Protein. With a hefty 19 grams of organic protein from sprouted brown rice and peas (bonus: the combo gives you all 9 essential amino acids), this nourishing powder reduces bloating, boosts metabolism, stops sugar cravings and will help keep you full and satisfied. THE SUPER ELIXIR has a unique Doctor-created formula which includes whole-food ingredients you won’t usually find in your average protein powder: Pre and probiotics for improved digestion and no more bloating All B vitamins, which help balance everything from mood, weight, digestion and heart health Dandelion helps remove toxins from the liver Anti-aging warriors acai & pomegranate for antioxidant properties that neutralize free radicals Rosehip, which is a concentrated source of vitamins C that builds healthy tissues, collagen and a strong immunity Leucine for muscle repair and phenalanine for fat burning Plus, along with all the health-boosting benefits, it actually tastes delicious. Try adding THE SUPER ELIXIR Nourishing Protein in Raw Peruvian Cacao or Australian Vanilla not just to a smoothie, but a smoothie bowl, energy ball, or chia pudding—or do what company co-founder Elle Macpherson does, and simply blend some into almond milk with a frozen banana and some berries for breakfast. Now’s the perfect time to try THE SUPER ELIXIR Nourishing Protein: Clean Plates’ readers will receive free shipping.* Just use code CLEANSUMMER at checkout. After all, you deserve to take 1 minute to blend up some fat-burning energy before you race out the door. Get lean and energized now!   *Free shipping on all orders over $50 from Welleco.com; offer available one per customer until July 15, 2017. Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

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Get Your Summer Glow On With Good-for-You Ice Pops

Sprouted Routes blogger Liz Moody’s beautiful book has “healthy, nourishing ice pops that fill you with energy and nutrients and make you absolutely glow.”

Recipes

Cremini Brown Rice Veggie Burger

A beloved comfort food meal gets a delicious makeover. Try this cremini brown rice veggie burger to impress all your vegetarian friends. 

Menus

Weekend Menu Hacks: Grilled Salmon with Avocado & Crostini

A delicious and healthy no labor menu for Labor Day weekend

The unofficial end of summer is here and with it the dreams, the parties, the grill outs, the sunburns, the long lines at the airport and the crowded highways—these are all but memories now or rather Instagram memories….

Recipes

Grilled Salmon with Strawberry Avocado Salsa

Salmon, strawberries, and avocado- you could hardly think up a healthier trio of ingredients. They come together here to create a meal that’s so refreshingly different and flavorful, “health” is about the last last thing you’ll think of when you enjoy it. This recipe is from The Clean Plates Cookbook ($17; Running Press) by Jared Koch with Jill Silverman Hough.

Recipes

Classic Daiquiri

3 ingredients never tasted so good. Just do these 4 steps: Combine, shake, chill, drink.

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The Better-For-You Beverage

Quench your thirst with organic Harmless Harvest coconut water

After having fun in the hot summer sun, don’t you wish you could dive into the center of a cool coconut and lap up all the good hydration of the water within?

Tips

Water(melon), Water(melon) Everywhere

6 cool ways to think outside the wedge

Is there anything that screams “summer!” more than a wedge of cool, sweet watermelon?

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The Latest Scoop

These new L.A. ice cream alternatives are a cool, creamy treat

Ice cream envy: It’s a common condition among healthy eaters in the summertime. You know that skipping out on questionably sourced dairy and loads of refined sugar is a good choice, but still…doesn’t taking a lick of a cool, sweet frozen treat sound divine?

Healthy Pantry

Gazpacho To Go

These bottled tomato soups taste like summer

Tío Gazpacho makes smooth, zingy bottled gazpachos that are knocking our socks off.

Recipes

Hot & Cold Summer Squash

It’s summer and the farmer’s markets are brimming with tons of fresh zucchini. Try this quick, delicious recipe for a fresh, healthy meal. 

Recipes

Fermented Watermelon Basil Cooler

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Cucumber Soup 

From The New Greenmarket Cookbook ($20;Da Capo Lifelong Books) by Gabrielle Langholtz.

Recipes

Tropical Smoothie Bowl

This recipe is adapted from The Sprouted Kitchen Bowl and Spoon: Simple and Inspired Whole Foods Recipes to Savor and Share ($16; Ten Speed Press) by Sara and Hugh Forte.

Head to the Greenmarket for one of our favorite veggies this season

Make a cool cucumber soup this summer…

People & Places

Parks and Recreation

5 things to help you picnic stylishly and sustainably

Pick up these picnic helpers.

Green juice, even more refreshing than before

Innocent Ice Pops will keep us cool all summer…

Incorporate watermelon into your diet with a fermented cooler.

Our favorite stone fruits are back in season—here's how to enjoy them

Bite into a perfectly ripe peach before summer takes its leave — rich in vitamins and minerals, and full of fiber, stone fruits are a nutritious and delicious treat…

Restaurants

Summertime, and the Eating is Easy: Alfresco Fare with Chef Seamus Mullen

The Next Iron Chef star brings seasonal summer fare to the Standard

A new pop-up is in town with owner of Spanish restaurant Tertulia and Next Iron Chef Seamus Mullen’s ephemeral venture…

Events

Summer Essentials: Healthy Eating During the Outdoor Event Season

Our picks for quick, healthy bites

We found restaurants with the Clean Plates Seal near four of the biggest summer event sites. Pack this list alongside your sunglasses and your picnic blanket, and you’ll never go hungry…

Restaurants

4 Cocktail Spots for Summer

Try these NYC spots for refreshing cocktails

Our picks for the best summer cocktails in NYC!

Restaurants

NYC Summer: Dining Al Fresco

Four picks for summer dining

Summer has almost officially arrived in New York, and that means it’s important to know where to snag a table to maximize those twilight hours.

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Tips

The “Healthy” Mistake You’re Probably Making at Starbucks

Maybe you pop in all the time, maybe you only go there in a pinch — either way, chances are grabbing coffee from Starbucks is a part of your life. And though you’re probably already avoiding those venti super-sugary specialty drinks (right?!), your go-to Starbucks order might not be as healthy as you think. Read on to find out the “healthy” mistake you might be making.  

Wellness

5 Ways to Chill Out When You Only Have 10 Minutes

You could probably use an hour or two to relax every day, right? Over here in the real world, we feel lucky when we get 10 minutes. There’s good news, though: That’s actually plenty of time. Here are some good ways to chill out when the clock is ticking. (Hint: Scrolling social media isn’t on the list).

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