Category: low salt
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Healthier Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are a guilty pleasure. This isn’t health food, but a healthier cookie with both fat and sugar reduced and some of the white flour replaced with oatmeal and almond flours. This recipe produces a soft, moist cookie that tastes just like its fattier, more sugary cousin. It has half the usual…
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Banana Pumpkin Muffins – vegan, no added sugar
Fall and pumpkins … a great combination in your kitchen. While the typical banana or pumpkin bread has a couple cups of white flour and a cup or more of sugar, this recipe cuts the all purpose flour down to one cup and as written has NO added sugar. This recipe is drawn from…
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Homemade (Low Salt) Chicken Noodle Soup
Fall is time for homemade soup. Yes, I am on a soup kick. I know this is my third soup-type post in a row (if you consider cioppino soup, which I don’t). But it’s Fall, people! You gotta have soup when there’s a chill in the air and the leaves start to turn. If…
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EZ Healthy Cioppino
Have you ever made homemade cioppino? Me neither! Until tonight, that is. This is a fresh, healthy meal-in-a-bowl that you don’t have to go to a restaurant for. This recipe began life at epicurious.com. I made some changes to deepen the flavor of the broth. Took a lot of care not to add too much…
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Tomato and Bread Soup (Papa al Pomodoro)
Tomato soup …Yumm! I’ve loved tomato soup since my mom used to heat up a can of Campbell’s for lunch. But this is so much healthier, so much fresher — if you love tomato soup, you have got to try it. It is a very easy recipe; there is no cream in it; and if…
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Light Almond Pudding
Looks like I am in a rut … this is my fourth dessert posting in a row! Springtime just makes me hungry for sweets, I guess. This pudding began life as a light vanilla pudding on chocolatecovderedkatie.com. I love the taste of almond, and I was also looking for a richer pudding that is still…
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EZ Ugly Low Sugar Apple Crisp
4:15 pm on a Friday and I wanted to make dessert for the evening, but I was running low on both time and energy. This crisp, which started life as a heavier version on food.com, uses minimal wheat flour, takes about 15 minutes to throw together and bakes up in about thirty. Easily made vegan. Very low sugar. Healthy…
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Light and Healthy Baked Pears
Spring is here! Time for light desserts … time for pears. Here in California we can get most fruits year-round, but pears in particular are not worth buying until spring and summer. A simple baked pear, garnished with a yummy oat and cinnamon topping, makes a great, healthy dessert. The original recipe I found on Delish.com had lots…
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Salad Nicoise
A summer salad in the middle of winter?! It works here in (mostly) sunny Southern California where we can get fresh vegetables year-round. But even if you live in a colder climate, most of the ingredients in this salad (except the lettuce and tomatoes) can be obtained in the canned or frozen food section. …
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EZ Baked Acorn Squash
Winter time is winter squash time …. yum. But what about those rock-hard skins? Many a shopping trip I decided to skip the winter squash based on numerous prior attempts to hack them open with a variety of large kitchen knives (and some close calls with a few fingers). But you can find all the answers to your problems on the internet…
Healthy, EZ, Yummy! 