Healthy Lunches: 6 Days for 4 Weeks

Get your month worth of healthy lunches with recipes, ideas and pictures! These healthy lunches will sure give you the jump start on springing into health!

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Curried Chicken Egg Salad Recipe

Enjoy this curried chicken egg salad for lunch on its own or make a sandwich. Quick and easy to make and perfect for using up that leftover chicken!

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French Bistro Au Gratin – Date Night

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Soup It Up: 10 Super Soup Recipes

Do you love soup as much as I love soup? I have 10 super soup recipes for you today to try and enjoy!

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Yoplait Whips! – Whipping Up Healthy Meals

Whipped Greek yogurt? 100 calories? Yes, please!  I’ll take these Yoplait Whips! as a healthy breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner 🙂

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Making Bread and Tasty Tuesday Linkup #53

I’ll bet you after reading this post you will want to switch to making bread at home from scratch – it is SO much easier than you think!

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Meal Ideas for 7 Days and Tasty Tuesday Linkup #52

Are you looking for new meal ideas? Are you torturing your family with the question “What would you like to eat?” every night? Look no further. These 7 meal ideas will give you a solid healthy plan for dinners for the whole week!

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Tasty Tuesday Linkup #49 and Exciting Tasty News

Hey guys! Happy Tasty Tuesday Linkup day to you! How was your weekend?

Mine just flew by. Seriously, before I knew it – it was Sunday night 🙁

This Saturday we (just out of the blue) decided it was Christmas – Take #2 at our house, at least food wise.

Hubby made an incredibly delicious leg of lamb! (I have no idea what’s gotten into him, I was afraid I’d spook him if I asked).

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Mezzetta Memories: Salami Pasta Salad Recipe

Hey guys! Happy Tasty Tuesday to you 🙂

Today, I’m cooking with Mezzetta as part of the Mezzetta Memories campaign.

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With another big holiday upon us, it’s time to start thinking about the holiday menu already!

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Leftover Turkey Soup Recipe and Tasty Tuesday Linkup 43

Hey guys!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you had a nice holiday.

We ran/walked the Turkey Trot on the Thanksgiving morning:

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And then we got home, put the turkey in the oven and snuggled with the kitty for a bit:

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Our turkey was 15lb, but this year it was just the two of us on Thanksgiving, so we had plenty of leftovers!

Since ’tis the season of soups, and our bodies were begging for something lighter after the Thanksgiving feast, I made soup.

But! Before I could make soup – I made turkey broth. The wise and awesome friend of mine named Jennifer had an awesome idea which I used to make my broth. Check it out here – I promise, you’ll never use store bought broth again!

See? I told you that girl was genius!

So, back to the soup recipe. This one is super easy and quick to make, as most of my recipes.

Leftover Turkey Soup Recipe

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Meatballs Recipe and Tasty Tuesday Linkup Party

Hey guys! How was your weekend?

We took it easy this past weekend and didn’t really do much except for the usual work around the house and weekend errands like grocery shopping and all that jazz 🙂

So I was thinking about what recipe to share with you today for the Tasty Tuesday, and here’s what I came up with. When I moved to the US three years ago I was a little overwhelmed by how much the food was different from what I was used to growing up. So, thinking of this week’s Tasty Tuesday reminded me of one of the things that were different here in the US – meatballs.

Ok, think of how people serve meatballs in the US? Correct! Over spaghetti 🙂 And that’s about the only serving option, unless you’re at IKEA and ordering Swedish meatballs, but that’s a whole different territory 🙂

Wanna know how people eat meatballs in Russia? Read on! 🙂

In fact, there will be two variations of the meatballs recipe in this post – one is my variation on the American version (over spaghetti), and the other variation will be the Russian style meatballs.

Ready?

Russian Style Meatballs Recipe

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Pork Stew Recipe (Crockpot)

Hey guys! Is your week off to a good start? I hope it is 🙂

Today is Tuesday, and it means what? Yep, that’s right! It means you’re getting a new recipe for your recipe box from me, AND get to link up your food related posts on this blog post for everyone to read, like, share and comment on 🙂

So, I’m going to start with the important things this time. Guess what’s been cooking in my kitchen and what I’m sharing with you today?

Pork Stew Recipe

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Italian Wedding Soup Recipe and Tasty Tuesday Linkup Party #40

Hey guys! Happy Tasty Tuesday 🙂

It’s that day of the week I look forward to the most on this blog – the day when you come here to share your recipes and link up your food related posts. Love Tuesdays!

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So. Since it that time of year, I’m sharing another soup recipe with you today – Italian Wedding Soup Recipe is on the menu today 🙂

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Crockpot Chili Recipe and Tasty Tuesday Linkup Party #39

Hey guys! Happy Tasty Tuesday 🙂 It’s Linkup Party time on Lean Lena.

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I feel like it’s getting colder by the minute outside! This time of year I am craving soups. You? 🙂

Soup is just about the easiest thing you can cook, in my opinion. Anybody can make soup.

With the invention of crockpots that easy task is even easier to accomplish. What can be better than coming home to a bowl of warm soup? Almost nothing other than someone to share it with.

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Quinoa Stuffed Squash – Tasty Tuesday Recipe Feature and Linkup

Hey-hey! How was your weekend, guys?

We were working on our kitchen this weekend. We have finally painted the walls! Now to put in the ceiling 🙂 Slow but sure we’re making some progress with our kitchen.

Because my kitchen (and pretty much the whole house because of the kitchen project) is a mess, I didn’t cook anything new this weekend to share with you today.

BUT! Tasty Tuesday is still on!

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Every Tuesday I post a recipe, a collection of recipes, a restaurant review or anything related to food. There is then a linkup at the end of the post where you can add links to your food-related blog posts! The linkup stays open for a week – right until the next one comes around. How awesome is that?

Don’t forget to check out other link up participants and there’s ONLY ONE RULE TO THE LINKUP – link back to this blog or grab the link up badge from the sidebar. Let’s spread the word so we can have more people checking out your posts next week! Please, respect this rule – every week I put my time and effort into creating this linkup, and so do bloggers who come to linkup their posts. Linking back = spreading the word = giving back.Continue Reading