Lightened Up Easy Slow Cooker Beef & Mushrooms

January 25, 2012

Lean stewing beef and mushrooms cooked in slow cooker until tender. This is a great dinner for the meat lovers in your home. It’s easy enough for a weeknight and tasty enough for company. I’m not a huge steak fan, but I love hearty beef vegetable soups, stews and braised dishes, like this slow cooker [...]

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Light and Healthy Creamy One-Pot Pasta

January 24, 2012
Creamy One Pot Pasta

This Pampered Chef recipe for Creamy One-Pot Pasta has been on my radar for months. I finally made a half batch for dinner last weekend and am so glad I did. It’s definitely a keeper – quick, easy, healthy and delicious – perfect for a busy weeknight or weekend dinner. What’s not to love?  ”This [...]

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Skinny Cranberry Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

January 23, 2012
Skinny Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are my absolute favorite, so I’m always on the lookout for oatmeal cookie recipes. I’ve made applesauce oatmeal cookies, and banana oatmeal cookies, and incredible oatmeal chocolate chip cookie bars, but never any exactly like this –  with shredded apples and dried cranberries. Since I was in a mood for cookies and am [...]

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Italian Sesame Seed Cookies Recipe

January 21, 2012
Italian Sesame Seed Cookies

I first made these little sesame seed cookies back in 2006, while on a Vermont Culinary Vacation with my sister and had completely forgotten about them until recently, when I saw a similar recipe for Toasted Sesame Seed Cookies on my favorite cookie recipe website. Easy to make cookies are one of my favorite skinny & delicious [...]

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Celebrate National Granola Bar Day – Free Granola Bars Recipe E-Book

January 20, 2012
Granola Bars

According to The Nibble, today, 1/20, is National Granola Bar Day. There’s certainly no shortage of packaged granola bars lining the grocery store shelves with which you could celebrate. Granola bars make a great snack and can be a better alternative for breakfast than high calorie muffins or doughnuts. Here’s a great article with reviews of [...]

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Skinny & Delicious Southwestern Slow Cooker Chicken

January 20, 2012
Slim Southwestern Slow Cookier Chicken

Are you looking for easy healthy chicken recipes for the slow cooker? Here’s one for your files. I made this Southwestern chicken with corn, black beans and salsa dish earlier this week for dinner and everyone loved it. I loved how easy it was to prepare. This light and healthy recipe jumped out at me, [...]

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Favorite Skinny & Delicious Black Bean Soup Recipes

January 18, 2012
Skinny and Delicious Black Bean Soup

Black beans, also known as turtle beans, are high in protein and fiber, low in fat, inexpensive and nutritious. They also make delicious soup. Black bean soup is hearty, satisfying and super easy to make. It also freezes well so you can keep a stash of portion controlled containers in the freezer for those nights [...]

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Slim & Delicious Chicken Vegetable Rice Soup Recipe

January 17, 2012
Trim Turkey Vegetable Rice Soup

I love soup. Steamy. Nourishing. Satisfying. Tasty. Low in calories. What’s not to love? And after days and weeks of over-indulging, your body is probably ready for some simple food. Mine sure is. Soup is a wonderful solution. A steamy bowl of soup for lunch or dinner is the perfect way to lighten up after holidays and [...]

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