Published 6/12/2023 Our Favorite Blueberry Banana Bread This blueberry banana bread is a healthy banana bread recipe that will make you feel like you’re eating one giant blueberry muffin. Made with white whole wheat flour, natural sweeteners, and bursting blueberries, it’s truly a recipe that you must make. Hot tip! Not a blueberry fan? Try using frozen berries, strawberries, or blackberries instead. Blueberry Banana Bread Ingredients One of the best things about this recipe is that it’s made with whole, healthy ingredients leaving it super moist and perfectly sweet....

Published 3/29/2021 Love mixing up smoothies for a meal? Check out some of our most popular smoothie recipes like The Best Breakfast Smoothie or this Healthy Green Smoothie Recipe. There really isn’t a better combination than chocolate, peanut butter, and banana. These three flavors together taste like dessert and we’re totally here for that. Why Make this Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie? You get your veggies and the deliciousness of a peanut butter cup all in one!...

Published 3/26/2023 Fluffy Breakfast Strata Breakfast strata is a delicious and easy breakfast casserole that is perfect for a weekend brunch or a quick weekday meal when made ahead of time. It’s typically made with bread, eggs, milk, cheese, and any other ingredients you’d like to toss in. We’re making our strata savory with help from sautéed veggies and breakfast sausage. Yum! Featured Ingredients Ground sausage: feel free to use a ground breakfast sausage, chorizo, or a plat-based ground....

If you’re anything like me, every good idea you’ve ever had in your life in regards to what people like to eat exists your brain the minute you realize company is coming for dinner. The next time this happens, remember that 1 pan Company Chicken exists and that it’s not only lick-your-plate-delicious (aka everyone’s going to LOVE IT) but it cooks in just 20 minutes. This luscious chicken dinner recipe is easy enough to make any night of the week, but so elegant and impressive that you’ll definitely want to serve it for dinner the next time company comes a-callin’....

Step up your sandwich game with a homemade, copycat Panera Frontega Chicken Panini! Tender focaccia bread is stuffed with pulled chicken, mozzarella cheese, tomato, red onion, fresh basil, and chipotle mayo then pressed until hot and crisp. So simple, SO delish — no restaurant required! Start by making the chipotle mayo. To a mini food processor add 1/4 cup low-fat mayo with 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce + 1 or 2 teaspoons sauce, depending on how spicy you want it....

Published 3/4/2024 • Updated 3/17/2024 If you’ve been here a while, you know how much we love using cottage cheese in unique ways (ahem, lookin’ at you, cookies and cream cottage cheese ice cream, cottage cheese buffalo chicken dip, and super creamy cottage cheese alfredo). And these cottage cheese chocolate chip cookies are based on our ricotta cookies on The Cheese Knees, but we wanted to try and replace the ricotta with blended cottage cheese, and ohhh my gosh, these cookies might be our new fave — they’re super soft and a little fluffy, and pack amazing flavor....

Published 3/6/2019 • Updated 3/5/2024 Chia Seed Pudding- The Healthiest Dessert! Chia seeds are all the rage right now. Why? Because they are small seeds that pack a nutritious punch. Not only are chia seeds great on top of a smoothie and as tasty gelatinous morsels in a pudding, but they are so good for you! Chia Seed Pudding Q & A Now that we know chia seeds are a great source for vitamins and minerals, let’s go over some commonly asked quests regarding chia seeds!...

Published 12/23/2022 • Updated 7/18/2023 Crispy Air Fryer Potatoes These crispy air fryer potatoes are the perfect side dish for any meal! They’re perfectly seasoned and air fried to crispy perfection in 10 minutes. We love these taters served alongside sous vide steak and sautéed green beans. Delish! Ingredients for Air Fryer Potatoes These air fryer potatoes are so simple and only require a few ingredients. Here is what you need: Cooked in 10 minutes: that’s right!...

Published 8/10/2023 Living in Minnesota where apples are abundant, trips to the apple orchard happen every year. My favorite thing to make with them (other than apple cider and apple cake) is applesauce. Applesauce can be used as substitution for oil or butter in lots of our baking recipes. Add your chopped apples, orange juice, and cinnamon sticks to the Instant Pot and seal shut. Cook on high for 6 minutes with a quick release....

Published 2/22/2023 • Updated 3/17/2024 Everything bagel seasoning is a spice mix that needs to be in your kitchen at all times. We love this recipe for seasoning chicken, veggies, and everything in between. What is everything bagel seasoning? Everything Bagel Seasoning is that delicious, chunky, savory seasoning you find on Everything Bagels, but without the bagel! It was first popularized by Trader Joe’s when they came out with an Everything But the Bagel Seasoning to sell in-store....

Published 11/10/2020 • Updated 11/17/2021 From hot cocktails to refreshing drinks on ice to the most festive mocktails, we’ve got you covered with all the Best Thanksgiving Drinks on the internet. Whether you’re looking for hot cocktails to sip on or refreshing cold cocktails, we got you! From mulled wine to hot spiked apple cider to the best spicy hot toddy and everything in between, you’ll never be at a loss for easy Thanksgiving cocktails again....

Published 9/4/2022 What is Fit Foodie Cooking Club? The Fit Foodie Cooking Club is a monthly cooking challenge to get you in the kitchen cooking from scratch! We thought there was no better way to bring our virtual community together than to all make the same recipe each month to celebrate real food. September 2022 – The Details Read the below details VERY carefully as we want to make sure your entry counts!...

Published 4/2/2024 • Updated 5/6/2024 What is Fit Foodie Cooking Club? The Fit Foodie Cooking Club is a monthly cooking challenge to get you in the kitchen cooking from scratch! We thought there was no better way to bring our virtual community together than to all make the same recipe each month to celebrate real food. April 2024 – The Details Read the below details VERY carefully as we want to make sure your entry counts!...

Although the temperatures around here are stuck in the mid-80s for the foreseeable future, the calendar reminds us that it’s finally fall. Aka it’s socially acceptable to get something hot and cozy like Gluten Free French Onion Soup simmering on the stove, no matter the day time highs! French Onion Soup is one of my very favorite soups (hello melted cheese lid!) and I’ve been wanting to post a recipe for years....

Published 8/23/2023 It’s bursting with freshness and a perfect way to use up your garden basil. This pesto recipe is excellent for bread dipping and is so delicious tossed with pasta. I love making homemade basil pesto because I can use up all of my fresh basil from the garden. Making pesto sauce in your own kitchen makes you feel fancy, without it actually being expensive! Simply process your pesto sauce ingredients in a food processor until it reaches a gritty puree....

Published 6/19/2021 Why Freeze Strawberries? Is anyone else guilty of overbuying strawberries during the summer? We are! There is no need to put ay strawberries to waste, just freeze them. We love to freeze fresh strawberries because it logs in the delicious freshness of the strawberries when they are at their best! How to Freeze Strawberries Freezing strawberries seems like a no brainer, but there is a certain way you can freeze strawberries so they don’t stick together and last longer in the freezer without freezer burn....

Published 1/7/2020 If you’re new to the Instant Pot, this Instant Pot soup recipe is a great starter recipe! See 42 more healthy Instant Pot Recipes HERE. Instant Pot Soup RULES Hamburger Soup, a Midwestern staple. Think minestrone meets central Wisconsin. All the vegetables, meat, and noodles you ould ever want! Some people call hamburger soup, ground beef vegetable soup and that is exactly what it is. I love that I can literally throw everything into the Instant Pot and BAM....

Kung Pao Chicken Lettuce Wraps are the answer to the “I love take out but am trying to eat healthier!” dilemma we all face once in a while. This take-out fake-out dish tastes like it came straight from a restaurant, yet is light, gluten free, and low carb too! Chopped chicken and fresh vegetables are stir fried then simmered in a killer Kung Pao sauce which boasts that signature sweet heat....

Craving take out, but not the expense nor tummy-ache afterwards? Try my irresistible and incredibly delicious, Lighter Broccoli Beef! Because who needs gluten, fat, and sugar-laden take out when you can make it much healthier and gluten-free in less than 30 minutes at home? Lighter Broccoli Beef This healthier Broccoli Beef recipe is from my ebook, Gluten-Free for Beginners: 30 Day Meal Plan and Guide for Gluten-Free Success. Of the 10 recipes in there, it’s one of my very favorites and I couldn’t help but share it here with everyone....

Published 10/13/2023 Don’t get me wrong, we love mashed potatoes (and mashed cauliflower, too!), but these mashed sweet potatoes are just as good. They’re the perfect combination of sweet, savory, and creamy that pairs wonderfully with just about any meal! We tested this sweet potato mash recipe with a few different sweet potato cooking methods, and loved how they turned out when we roasted the sweet potatoes first. There was more flavor and more sweetness than our version with boiled sweet potatoes....