Healthy happy you.
It's a tradition in my house to carve pumpkins and roast pumpkin seeds the night before Halloween. Between my entire family though, we have too many seeds to bake. So I save them in a container in the fridge to roast later that week. These make a great snack because they're sweet and salty, and 1/4 cup of seeds contains 18 grams of protein and 457 milligrams of potassium. There's a special Read more
Salads are a great meal option when you're trying to lose weight, but calorie-packed toppings can make your "smart" choice an unhealthy pick. Hoping to get lean by beach season? Stick to your slim-down goals by substituting nutritious add-ons for the most common topping offenders. Make these simple, health-conscious ingredient swaps to boost your salad's nutrition without sacrificing Read more
FitSugar reader For the Love of Fiber has a healthy recipe to warm you up on a cold day. She shares it with us in our Healthy Recipe group in the Fit Community. This soup offers up a lot of flexibility, ingredient-wise. Since buttercup squash might not be readily available at your local store or farmer’s market, it can be swapped out for butternut squash or even pumpkin. If you haven’t Read more
Whenever I have people over for a sit-down holiday dinner, I like to set the tone with a hunger-inducing salad as the first course. For my most recent dinner, I foreshadowed the Fall meal to come with a peppery medley of in-season produce. This salad, with its salty, spicy, tangy, and sweet components, turned out to be the perfect way to get guests psyched for supper while still leaving plenty Read more
