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The Best Healthy Frozen Treats to Get at the Grocery Store
We shopped around and found a whole bunch of better-for-you-but-still-tasty frozen desserts you can feel good about eating any time of day, even breakfast.
10 Crispy Wing Recipes for All Your Summer Parties
Chicken wings don’t have to be deep-friend to be delicious. We found 10 healthier recipes that are super-simple, super-tasty, and super-crispy.
Summer Salads Mega-List: 20 Salads That Are Almost Too Gorgeous to Eat
Summer means salads that are exploding with ripe, delicious produce, but especially with fruit: all the berries, peaches for sure, watermelon and cantaloupe and honeydew? Yes, yes, and yes. And let’s not forget about tomatoes; come August, they are all we want to eat.
10 Sweet & Savory Watermelon Recipes to Make This Summer
While there’s nothing wrong with simple sliced watermelon, there are so many other creative ways to add it to your hot-weather menu. From cocktails to condiments, salads to sweets, watermelon might just be the little black dress of summer fruit — it’s that versatile!
10 Popsicle Recipes That Are Healthier Than Smoothies
In general, we love smoothies, but in the summer, there’s something we love even more: popsicles. Specifically these popsicles. Clean, simple, and delicious, they’re mostly made of fruits and vegetables and hardly any sugar. In fact, they may be even healthier than smoothies.
5 Essential Recipes for a Well-Fed Camping Trip
Camping season is here. Is your cooler ready? Our essential meal plan includes a mix of campfire-ready classics and a few make ahead staples.
10 No Cook Summer Dinners We’re Making on Repeat
These easy, no cook recipes are also chock-full of vegetables and so delicious you’ll want to them make again and again.
The Healthy, Tasty Dips We’re Packing in Our Summer Coolers
The beach is calling — but what kind of snacks are you packing? Here are the six healthiest, tastiest dips you’ll find us packing in our coolers this summer.
Healthy Hot Dogs Exist (and We Found the Best Ones)
With spring fully sprung and cookout season upon us, we tested out several brands of hot dogs to bring you the healthiest, tastiest ones.
3 Foolproof Ways to Cook Hot Dogs
A really good hot dog—meaty, juicy, flavorful, with a hearty snap when you bite into it—is summer in a bun. Luckily, there’s more than one way to get it right. Here are three ways to cook hot dogs that will yield delicious results every time.
Our Summer Drinking List: Cheap & Cheerful Rosé Wines
When it comes to summer drinking, I have a simple rule: It should be cheap and cheerful. For me, that almost always means rosé wine. If you’re not already on board the #yeswayrosé bandwagon, allow us to explain why you should drink pink this summer — and get our top picks.
5 Low-Sugar Smoothie Recipes That Taste Like Summer
When it comes to smoothies, your best bet is to make your own. That way you can keep an eye on the sugar, throw in some veggies, add some protein, and blend whatever summer flavors are calling your name:
7 Quick & Delicious Lettuce Wraps for Easy Summer Dinners
These lettuce wraps are part salad, part sandwich, and 100% delicious. Even better? They take less than 30 minutes to make. Summer dinner, done!
10 Summer Instant Pot Recipes (So You Don’t Have to Turn the Oven On)
You might associate the Instant Pot with stews and hearty meat dishes, but it’s also the perfect tool for summer because it won’t heat up your home. You can make pulled pork, the most delicious potato salad, and so much more.
Cucumber Mega-List: 15 Super-Refreshing Recipes to Make ASAP
There are so many ways to enjoy crunchy, refreshing cukes and so many reasons you should. For starters, they’re 96% water, which makes them super-hydrating. They’re also low-calorie, low-carb, and a good source of nutrients, including vitamin C, vitamin K, magnesium, and potassium.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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….
Classic Daiquiri
3 ingredients never tasted so good. Just do these 4 steps: Combine, shake, chill, drink.
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?
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?
Gazpacho To Go
These bottled tomato soups taste like summer
Tío Gazpacho makes smooth, zingy bottled gazpachos that are knocking our socks off.
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.
Cucumber Soup
From The New Greenmarket Cookbook ($20;Da Capo Lifelong Books) by Gabrielle Langholtz.
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…
Parks and Recreation
5 things to help you picnic stylishly and sustainably
Pick up these picnic helpers.