Blueberry Chicken Salad Lettuce Wraps & More Wrap Recipes

Lettuce wraps garnered attention for a while, but seem to have faded from view. So here’s a reminder: Let lettuce take the place of tortillas, bread, and other refined-carb, low-nutrition sandwich wrappers. Turn them into lunch or snack fare—or as in the photo, hors d’oeuvre. Lettuce wraps are fun food. You’ll get family members to…
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National Trail Mix Day & A Custom Trail Mix Recipe

August 31st is National Trail Mix Day. Make your own blend with the options below. While the concept of mixing nuts and dried fruit has been popular for millennia, “trail mix” as a concept for a modern, portable energy snack is relatively new. The term refers to a mixture of high-energy foods such as dried…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Add Nuts To Your Food, Raw Or Roasted

Nuts are good for you, and you should enjoy an ounce of them daily as a heart-healthy snack or ingredient: added to salads (green, chicken, egg, tuna, pasta, etc.); chopped and mixed with rice; atop hot or cold cereal, pancakes or French toast; on cottage cheese or yogurt; on ice cream and frozen yogurt; and…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Spicy Olive Mix

Like many gourmet supermarkets, ours has a large olive bar that entices us to scoop different varieties at each visit. Why not: Olives are a healthful, lower-calorie snack. There’s a pitted spicy olive mix that we especially like to serve with drinks and toss into salads. We like the visual of different colors and sizes,…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Fruit Cones

Today’s tip is an easy, kid-friendly, guilt-free, handheld snack or dessert. Ice cream cones filled with fruit are a way to bring the fun without the refined sugar, calories or drippiness of ice cream. Simply cut up a fruit salad into a small dice (the size of raspberries). Blueberries and raspberries can go into the…
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