National Snack Foods Month

Empty shopping cart sitting in the middle of a grocery snack food aisle

…chips made with other vegetable oils, and more lightly salted options. While these changes don’t make potato chips “heart healthy”, they do help consumers work toward a diet lower in…

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Alli’s Sample Meal Plan

Rainbow Pizza

…the soup and a colorful garden salad (add some roasted vegetables). Prep for the week: Cut up extra vegetables, including some for the enchilada casserole you’ll be making tomorrow night….

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Love is Soup

Two-Lentil Soup

…cook your onions in olive or vegetable oil, for example. Butter isn’t necessary. Meat broth tends to contain high amounts of salt and saturated fat alike. Low-sodium vegetable broth is…

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Veggies and the Grill

Ginger-Marinated Grilled Portobello Mushrooms

If vegetables aren’t routinely the star of the show at your cookouts, let me share a little secret: grilling does more for veggies than it does for meat. Whether your…

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