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Fall in Love with Salad
Salads make simply fantastic meals. They are chock-full of nutrients and flavor, and -- when prepared thoughtfully -- they can be low in calories but still very satieting. Today we'd like to celebrate salad with a guide to its preparation, presentation, and transportation.
Watermelon Day
Friday is National Watermelon Day. How will you celebrate? Why not check out our fun watermelon facts, then make your own watermelon freezies with the recipe at the bottom of this post?
Mango Salsa
This simple salsa comes together in a snap and is perfect with chips, vegetables, rice, or grilled fish.
Enjoy Summer Fruit!
Every season features its own special fruits and vegetables, but summer offers an exceptional range of choices. In this post, we explore the best ways to treat yourself to summer fruit.
Celebrate Berry Month!
Did you know that July is Berry Month? To celebrate, we've collected a few of our favorite berry recipes and paired them with fun facts. Check it out!
Make it Easy to Eat Fresh Fruits and Veggies
Here at Food and Health, we're still celebrating Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month (who wouldn't?!), so we thought we'd post a few more tips about making it easy to eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month Feature: Onions
Wouldn't it be great to season your food without adding a lot of fat or salt? Try onions! Their lively flavor ranges from sharp to sweet. In addition to enhancing many different dishes, onions also provide a nutritional boost and tons of fiber.
Pasta Fresca
Celebrate Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month with this delicious recipe. After you cook the spaghetti, the rest of the dish comes together in just 5 minutes! It's simple, quick, and received rave reviews from our testers.
Celebrate MyPlate's Birthday with Cheesecake
MyPlate is celebrating its first birthday on June 2, 2012. Join the celebration with this fantastic fruit cheesecake that features MyPlate's great design.
Stir Fry for Bone Health
We're going to wrap up our posts for osteoporosis awareness month with a few more recipes and tips for getting enough bone-healthy nutrients. Today we bring you a delicious stir-fry that provides 473% of the daily value for vitamin K, 22% of the daily value for magnesium, and 10% of the daily value for calcium.
Fettucini with Salmon and Tomatoes: Recipe for Bone Health
Celebrate osteoporosis awareness month with this delicious dish that helps build healthy bones. It contains 23% of the daily value (DV) for calcium, 74% of the DV for vitamin D, 38% of the DV for folate, 106% of the DV for selenium and over 10% of the DV each for magnesium and vitamin K.
Mushroom Day
Celebrate the Day of the Mushroom with this quick and tasty mushroom quiche. Worried about whipping up another difficult, troublesome pastry crust? Well, worry no more -- this dish doesn't have one!
Fill Half Your Plate With Fruits and Vegetables: Labor Day
Food and Health Communications is proud to be a National Strategic Partner for MyPlate. For Labor Day, we are bringing innovative yet easy ways to serve fruits and veggies so that they will make up half of everyone's plates! We have recipes for a Veggie Face Salad, Ice Bucket Fruits, and our best Fresh Fruit Cobbler, among other ideas.
Potatoes
To test my son's hypothesis of satiety for his science fair project, each volunteer ate as much as they wanted until they felt full and the amount was recorded. To ensure that each volunteer was hungry and to avoid bias each volunteer was not allowed to eat 2 hours before the test and the test was recorded at the same time of the day - after school. The results were statistically significant.
Hidden Veggies Lower Calories
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University completed a study that shows that hiding veggies in foods is an effective strategy to get people to eat more veggies and significantly fewer calories. We wanted to give this fun idea of hiding pureed vegetables in foods a try.
Pasta Primavera Salad
View and download our pasta primavera salad handout or the free show on how to make a better salad - great for home or foodservice. You will love this favorite salad because it teaches you to use a lot more veggies than pasta so your salad looks tasty and helps you consume fewer calories!
Take Your Salad to Work
Did you know you can take a salad to work? We have one here that takes minutes to make and it is gorgeous. You will be the envy of your whole office and hopefully, since you will skip the commute and line at the lunch palace, you will have time to walk. Pictures, story, recipe here....
Roasted Vegetarian Dinner
This wonderful vegetarian dinner was easy to make. It used 15 different vegetables and only took about 15 minutes to prep. The baking time was 1-1/2 hours - and it was unattended. The house smelled wonderful and now we have leftovers for tomorrow, too.
How to make a tropical fruit platter
We know it is not so warm everywhere as here so we thought we would share some tropic love and particularly to get ready for Nutrition Month - back to basics - why not develop a love of fruit and learn about new ones!?
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