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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Baked Steelhead Trout with Chimichurri Sauce

We’re officially almost finished – recipe #13 in the 15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015. We eat fish about once a week, and this week the fishmonger had a nice sale on Steelhead Trout. Generally speaking, I prefer Rainbow Trout over Steelhead Trout, but the fishmonger just advised me to treat it more like salmon, and […]

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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Ground Pork Lettuce Wraps

Ready for another 400-calories-or-less, tasty, filling dinner? Dinner #5 in our 15 Healthy Dinners series is ground pork lettuce wraps and the husband actually occasionally requests this meal on his own accord! Ingredients: 1 lb ground pork 1 head butter lettuce or romaine lettuce 1/4 cub hoisin sauce 2 tbsp soy sauce 2 green onion, […]

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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Southwestern Stuffed Portabella

Seeing as how the hubby wasn’t a huge fan of yesterday’s zoodles, I figured I’d make him something a little more hearty for tonight’s 15 Healthy Dinners meal. So today, I served up Southwestern Stuffed Portabellas – mushrooms stuffed with beans, rice, and mexican flavors. These tasty little numbers aren’t the most photogenic meal I’ve […]

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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Oodles of Zoodles

Dinner #3 in my “15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015” series is all about zoodles: noodles made from zucchinis. To make them, you need a “zoodler” like shown above – you can get them for under $10 on Amazon. Making zoodles is pretty simple – you put a zucchini per person through the zoodler, then boil for […]

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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Greek Salad with Rosemary Lamb Lollipop

For the second meal in my 15 Healthy Dinners series, I was stuck with a bit of a quandry: how do I get my meat-and-potatoes loving husband to eat salad for dinner?  He sees salad as a side dish at best. The answer?  Top it with a meat lollipop that looks straight out of the […]

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15 Healthy Dinners to Start 2015: Broiled Gulf Snapper & Balsamic Green Beans

It’s 2015, and so, like just about everyone else out there, I’m on a diet.  Well…maybe not a diet, exactly.  I’m not counting anything…points, carbs, calories, or steps…none of that.  And I’m not cutting any giant groups of foods from my diet, or insisting that they be served in a “juice” variety. I’m just going […]

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Meal planning for two: three tips to reduce food waste

Recently I had a conversation with a newly married friend of mine.  She and her husband had budgeted $60 a week for groceries for the two of them, but they were finding it hard to stay on track. Things just weren’t packaged for two people, she lamented, so they were overspending AND throwing out a […]

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