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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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….
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.
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.