Use these 11 healthy soup recipes to fill your meal plan with warm, hearty, and filling meals with fewer calories. Whether you use your pressure cooker, a slow cooker, or your stovetop, soups are a great food to add to your meal plan in the winter and all year long! Between the warm broth and …
This Slow Cooker Curry Butternut Squash Soup Recipe is a great make-ahead healthy meal prep lunch or comfort food Fall dinner with sweet potato, apple, & curry. If you have never had curry and butternut squash together, add this soup to your meal plan ASAP! Trust me. This is a combination that should be right …
This Instant Pot Pasta Fagioli Recipe is packed full of meat, pasta, vegetables, and beans for a healthy and hearty soup. A good friend introduced me to this soup years ago and now every time I make this recipe, I remember the two of us hovered over a pot in her kitchen with tasting spoons …
This Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash recipe is a fast and easy vegetable dish that is low calorie and low carb, making it a great food for weight loss! How to Cut Spaghetti Squash These squashes can be tough to cut apart. I usually don’t use a microwave when I cut mine, but it definitely helps …
These protein-packed quinoa bites bursting with apples and sweet cinnamon are a healthy & delicious make-ahead breakfast. My sweet niece, Brianna (she’s 6), is still in that stage where I am her cool aunt. I kind of hope this phase carries on forever, but even if it doesn’t, I am soaking it up while it …
This festive popcorn is super simple, using hot chocolate mix and marshmallows, and it can be thrown together in minutes for a perfect party treat! The holidays are definitely in full swing around here with Christmas parties, small group potlucks, present shopping, and cookie baking! There are a ton of things to do, but not …
This easy roasted spaghetti squash makes pasta-like strands that make for a perfect and versatile healthy winter vegetable side dish. My mom introduced us to all kinds of foods as we were growing up. I’ve been eating artichokes, jicama, and spaghetti squash for as long as I can remember! Spaghetti squash is all the rage …
This warm, hearty Slow Cooker Ham & White Bean Soup is the perfect way to use that leftover ham bone for a bowl of comfort food on chilly evenings! Do you remember that old infomercial for some rotisserie where the guy emphatically exclaimed, “Set it and forget it!”? I never bought the product, but the catch …
This Broccoli Cheese Soup is packed with veggies & uses Greek yogurt instead of heavy cream for a healthier and protein-packed comfort food on chilly nights I read an article a few years ago that was discussing the things our fast food culture was missing out on by just grabbing and gobbling food. It talked …
This delicious roasted cauliflower soup is packed full of roasted vegetables. It’s creamy but healthy, made without any cream! The perfect comfort food to warm you up on a cold winter evening. I am not a huge fan of the cold (I may live in Tucson, but during most of December and January, I wear …
This soft and Chewy Molasses Cookies recipe is the perfect addition to your Christmas cookie baking and are only 91 calories per cookie! In the crispy vs chewy cookie debate, I am chewy cookies all. the. way. Soft, chewy Christmas cookies are my absolute favorite and these chewy molasses cookies are everything I love about …
Growing up, like many families, we used holidays as a time to gather together. My parents, two sisters, and I would almost always drive to my aunt’s house to spend the day with my aunt, uncle, and cousins catching up on each others’ lives, telling stories, playing games, watching sports, doing puzzles, and, of course, …
This cheesy, creamy Chicken Divan casserole is comfort food to the max – a great go-to weeknight dinner, especially on chilly winter evenings! This one time, I ran away from home. I was probably 6 years old at the time and I’m sure I was angry about something really important at the time (or maybe …
These no-bake orange coconut ball cookies with their fruity twist are light and refreshing. Have you seen the movie Frozen yet? If you haven’t, you should probably go and do that. Like now. It’s okay, I’ll wait…. Are we good now? Good. I watched it for the first time a few weeks ago and I’m completely …
This Dark Chocolate Orange-Cranberry Cookies recipe is soft and chewy – the perfect addition to any Christmas cookie exchange! There’s a “thing” in the food blogger world called The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Last year, my Instagram feed was filled with people tagging #fbcookieswap and I just figured it was a super exclusive invite-only …
This simple hot chocolate cake is made with hot chocolate mix and topped with fluffy frosting – the perfect sweet treat for winter! I wait for this month all year long! Not only is it my birthday month, it’s my mom’s birthday month, and, um, hello, Jesus’ birthday month! Hands down, it’s the best month of …
This Crockpot Beef Stew is the ultimate comfort food. It’s quick and easy to throw together because the slow cooker does all the work! Growing up, beef stew was not my favorite. I’ve tried it before using other recipes and something was always just…off. Whether the carrots were mushy, the potatoes were grainy, or …