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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TIP OF THE DAY: Healthy Valentine Gifts

Choose your snacks from 25 sweet or savory mixes. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   Sure, it’s easy to give a box of candy or cupcakes for Valentine’s Day. But for anyone who can benefit from better snacking, how about something more healthful—and fun? There are fruit gifts, of course, and delicious artisan…
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COOKING VIDEO: Healthy Chips And Dip

  As a nation, we love crunchy snacks and creamy dips. As calorie counters, we don’t. In this video, chef Curtis Stone shows how easy it is to make your own lowfat baked chips (commercial chips can have 30% fat) and lowfat, low-calorie dips. They taste good and keep you looking good (Chef Stone looks…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Kale Chips

Rhythm Superfoods kale chips are a healthy snack, bursting with vitamins and flavor. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   It’s been three decades since Terra brand Root Chips first hit the market: a glamorous, tasty and seemingly better-for-you bag of gourmet chips made from batata, parsnip, ruby taro (most people think they’re beets),…
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PRODUCT: Grab & Go Healthy Vegetable Snacks

Make ‘em or buy ‘em. Photo courtesy MannPacking.com.   Like many people we know, we’re a bad-choice snacker. When we’re out of the house, we buy cookies, muffins, pizza, candy—high-calorie empty carbs. During periods of focus, we buy bags of baby carrots and throw them into our backpack along with a water bottle. But we…
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