Category: Vegetables-Salads-Herbs

PRODUCT: Baby Carrots, Easy To Love

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Even if you had your fill of carrots at Easter dinner, we’re about to inspire you to have them more regularly. Peeled baby carrots have come from nowhere to be the number-one-selling fresh-cut vegetable in the produce department. And that’s no surprise: Carrots are one of the most popular raw vegetable snacks. Carrots are low-calorie…
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PRODUCT: Love Beets, Ready To Eat

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We’re so happy with these grab-and-go infused beet snacks and easy salad or side ingredients. Photo courtesy LoveBeets.com.   Americans don’t eat enough beets. Love Beets, a packager of cooked beets in several enticing formats, wants to change that. Growing up in a beet-centric household of Russian descent, we know beets as a truly versatile…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Lower Calorie Potato Recipes

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Carb watchers tend to avoid potatoes, along with rice, bread and pasta. But if you leave off the butter, cheese and sour cream, baked, roasted or steamed potatoes can fit into any eating plan. Potatoes are a source of complex carbohydrates, which provide sustained energy and a feeling of satiety for a longer period of…
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RECIPE: Flavorful Tofu Salad Dressing With Salsa Verde

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[1] Tofu salsa verde makes a delicious salad dressing and all-around condiment (photo © House Foods). [2] Cubes of fresh tofu (photo © Kamala Bright | Unsplash). [3] Salsa verde (Gemini Photo). [4] Parsley is the base for Old World, or European, salsa verde. Mexican salsa verde, made with tomatillos and chiles, is a culinary…
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RECIPE: Colorful Beet Dip

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A colorful and yummy beet dip. Photo courtesy Dole.com.   We love beets in every form: baked, Harvard, pickled, beet ravioli, steamed beats, soup (borscht is Russian beet soup), in gourmet appetizer recipes, in green salads, with goat cheese and endive…even beet ice cream (substitute beets in a strawberry ice cream recipe) and beet cake…
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