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Toasted Almond Chicken Salad with Tart Cherries

Toasted Almond Chicken Salad with Tart Cherries

Here is a great QUICK CUP of CHICKEN recipe that is great for lunch or dinner.  I found this in Cooking Light Magazine Summer Cooking June 2015 and have made it before. Both kids and adults love it + it is really easy. Toasted Almond Chicken Salad in Bibb Lettuce Cups Rotisserie chicken is a great… Read More

Why are smoothies important for breakfast?

Why are smoothies important for breakfast?

Why are smoothies important for breakfast? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and sometimes it just doesn’t fit into our schedule the way it should. How we begin the day will determine how the rest of the day goes. It will determine if we feel energized or if we feel dragging with… Read More

Top 5 Healthiest Fruits & Veggies and What Makes Them So Important

Top 5 Healthiest Fruits & Veggies and What Makes Them So Important

5 Of The Healthiest Fruits And Vegetables: What Makes Them So Important? Plus recipes too! “We are what we eat”, or so the saying goes. Different foods help our bodies to grow, to heal, and to keep the immune system running properly. More than that, they stop our bodies from falling apart: the absence of… Read More

IT’S-SO-GOOD Red Onion Jam

IT’S-SO-GOOD Red Onion Jam

I so love onion, particiuarly red or purple onion. It has been a favorite of mine for years. This red onion jam is so good you’ll be looking for ways to serve it.  Try it on beef or veggie burger, in a lettuce wrap, on a salad or even top off your morning eggs with… Read More

Delicious Veggie Pasta Salad

Delicious Veggie Pasta Salad

A HEALTHY SUMMER PASTA SALAD Missy Bird loves to cook and she also loves to find healthy recipes. When I saw this one, I knew she had a winner! 🙂 Thanks Missy – see you in August! Guest Contributor: Missy Bird From: USANA Test Kitchen Barbecue season is officially in full swing and cookouts are… Read More

Spring Cooler Green Juice Recipe

Spring Cooler Green Juice Recipe

This is one of my favorite green juice recipes with the ginger and mint. Don’t have a juicer, just blend all together with a little extra purified water and make it a smoothie. Want to know about the difference between blending smoothies and juicing?  You can learn more about the difference between juicing and blending smoothies… Read More

Jenn Brown Loses Weight with USANA RESET

Jenn Brown Loses Weight with USANA RESET

Editor’s Note: The following was written by Jenn Brown, two-time Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster and TV host. For more, check out her Facebook Q&A where she share more and answers questions on the USANA RESET program. Jenn Brown on USANA RESET I have always considered myself a healthy person. I try to eat healthy and exercise regularly.… Read More

Top Seven Weight Loss Tips I Tell All My Clients

Top Seven Weight Loss Tips I Tell All My Clients

These are the the top 7 weight loss tips I tell my my weight loss clients and program participants. They are easy to incorporate and have such a big impact.   Start incorporating 1 or 2 and in a few days, add another. Soon all seven will working for you and helping you achieve your personal… Read More

Grandma Macklmen’s Irish Spring Rolls

Grandma Macklmen’s Irish Spring Rolls

This is a great recipe for a snack, lunch, or a side dish to a meal like grilled salmon. It is a great meal on the go too. I don’t know Grandma Macklem and I don’t even remember how I found this recipe but it was too good looking to not share (link to original recipe… Read More

How to eat the foods you love without the guilt!

How to eat the foods you love without the guilt!

YOU CAN EAT THE FOOD YOU LOVE and enjoy it too! That’s some good news isn’t it! Food is something we enjoy; something that gives us energy and helps our body function. But imagine if you were to give up your favorite (unhealthy) food forever. Do you think you could? Many who jump on a ‘diet’… Read More

2 Simple & Easy Healthy Pizza Recipes

2 Simple & Easy Healthy Pizza Recipes

For the Love of Pizza: 2 Simple and Easy Pizza Recipes There probably is not a person around who does not know what a pizza is or hasn’t tried it. Tradition has it that pizza originated in Naples, Italy, yet some forms of pizza are dated back to ancient Greece..From there somewhere in the early 1900s,… Read More

Quick and Easy Marinara

Quick and Easy Marinara

Marinara sauce is very popular and we use it in so many ways. It ‘s great as a dipping sauce with sweet potato fries, over pasta, with zucchini fritters, or as your pizza sauce. Making your own is easy and will help to cut the hidden sugars that many of the jar or canned sauces have.… Read More

How to choose a ripe cantaloupe + 3 delicious melon recipes.

How to choose a ripe cantaloupe + 3 delicious melon recipes.

How to Choose a Ripe Cantaloupe Cantaloupe is one of the most popular melons in America.  While cantaloupe is deeply loved by so many, it’s equally disappointing when you get a cantaloupe that either isn’t ripe yet or has passed its prime. So to make sure you don’t suffer from this disappointment, here are some tips… Read More

Simple Grilled Fennel

Simple Grilled Fennel

Simple Grilled Fennel Fennel has a very distinct licorice flavor and when it’s grilled becomes a tender, melt-in-your-mouth experience you don’t want to miss. Prep Time: 5 min  |  Cook Time: 45 min Ingredients: Fennel Olive oil Salt Pepper How to Make It: Trim the tops off the fennel. The stringy parts can be used as an… Read More

Fresh, Simple Antioxidant Treats

Fresh, Simple Antioxidant Treats

You just can’t beat raspberry and chocolate together! My 15 year old daughter was in the kitchen with me when I was making up the oatmeal and raw cacao bites for my neices graduation. She wanted a snack and the bites weren’t ready. We had some fresh raspberries and a bag of 65% cacao chunks… Read More

Chopped Veggie Salad with Roasted Asparagus

Chopped Veggie Salad with Roasted Asparagus

This healthy, chopped veggie salad is great to make up on Sunday and have fresh and ready all week (if it lasts more than a couple days because it’s so good).  I had some fresh asparagus so I roasted for 2-3 minutes and added that to the salad. Don’t have any or don’t like asparagus, leave… Read More

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