Light Meals: Healthy Chili, Cultural Soups & Salad Prep

Light meals offer diverse nutritional profiles through global soup varieties, healthy dressing formulations, and creative salad meal preparation.

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Healthy Recipes With Stew Meat That Aren't Stew

Stew beef is often a butcher's special at the grocery store, but if you're not in the mood for stew, you may bypass it for a pricier cut. While it's true that the chunks of pre-cut meat are characteristically tougher than a sirloin or roast, cooking them in the slow cooker renders them tender.

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8 Innovative Salad Recipes, No Lettuce Needed!

As healthy as they are, greens can be a drag. First off, lettuce gets boring. Then washing them, drying them, chopping them... Prepping just the greens can be a multistep process. Plus, have you ever skipped making a fresh salad because you didn’t have any greens on hand?

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7 Salad Dressings That Will Make You Toss the Bottled Stuff

Take a peek in your pantry and fridge. Chances are you have all the ingredients you need to bottle up your own salad dressing. Luckily, it’s easy to make your own dressing. We’ve got seven delicious ways to go DIY.

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10 Mason Jar Salads That Will Make Your Co-Workers Jealous

Want a surefire way to save your salad from lunchtime sogginess? Get yourself some Mason jars. But before you start tossing salad ingredients in, you'll want to ensure that your dressing doesn't wilt your greens. First, pour your dressing into the jar, and then layer “hard” foods like raw veggies.

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10 Warm Salads to Keep You Lean

We often opt for salads because “they’re good for us” -- they’re loaded with nutrients and, if done right, can help keep us lean -- but they can get a little ho-hum with the same old veggies and toppings. An easy way to make a fresh, crisp salad more interesting is to add a little heat (as in temperature)!

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Easy Swaps to Slim Down Super Bowl Sunday

Even though the Super Bowl isn’t officially a national holiday in the U.S., Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest day of the year in snack-food consumption and second only to Thanksgiving in overall food consumption.

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15 Fun and Tasty Football Snacks

With this beloved American ritual of watching football comes another tradition: tailgating and parties. Fans snack and sip their way through hours of tackling, passing, running and touchdowns every weekend. If you join the ranks of these revelers, you may be interested in some munchies that are tasty and healthy.

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14 Healthy New Year's Eve Party Appetizer Ideas

Yes, it's possible to eat yummy foods and enjoy a festive New Year's Eve party without completely disregarding healthy eating habits. Keep reading to learn about 14 delicious and healthy appetizers to help you ring in the New Year without ramping up the number on the scale.

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12 Slimming Soups

Don’t just slurp soup to take the chill off during a cold winter day. Enjoy it regularly to help manage your weight!

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Is Seafood Okay to Eat With Gallstones?

Most people who have gallstones don't even know it, according to U.S. News & World Report. These small pebble-like stones form in your gallbladder when there is an imbalance in the substances that make up bile. If you have gallstones, you should be able to eat seafood.

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Can You Eat Salads or Greens With Gallstones?

Gallstones affect about 10 percent of the population, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Most people with gallstones don't even know they have them because they do not cause any problems. You can eat salads and greens with gallstones.

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How to Cut Romaine Hearts for a Salad

Romaine lettuce is an unusually versatile salad ingredient. It combines the dark color and nutritional value of leafy lettuces with the crisp, juicy texture of head-type lettuces such as iceberg, giving it the best attributes of each type of lettuce. Romaine hearts are especially popular with home salad makers.

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