Your family will be super-charged after eating this sweet and tangy nutritious rice salad, inspired by a recipe from Today Show nutrition expert Joy Bauer. If you can’t find shelled edamame you can use frozen peas instead. Serve with Hard-Boiled Eggs.
This crowd pleaser includes sweet fall apples that balance out the pungent flavor of Gorgonzola cheese. Pair the salad with roasted chicken, turkey or pork tenderloin.
Don’t let this simple salad fool you – it may be simple but it’s also incredibly refreshing and delicious. It makes the perfect side at a summer barbecue!
Serve this light salad as a healthy option at your holiday gathering this year. It’ll provide you with some fresh fruit and veggies – two things that are often missing from the typical holiday spread!
This heart-healthy, Mediterranean-style tuna salad is super flavorful, thanks to briny olives and sweet red bell peppers. Serve in lettuce leaves for a light, low carb lunch.
This easy chicken salad is a great way to repurpose leftover cooked chicken. You could also use canned chicken or tuna instead. Add some greens like spinach, lettuce or arugula to your open-face sandwich for extra veggies. For a low carb option, serve as a lettuce wrap instead of on toast.
Author Robyn Webb: "I love that salad bars are now adding fresh sliced cabbage to the bins. It’s so much easier to have pre-sliced cabbage on hand to create this refreshing summer salad. Use this dressing also as a marinade for other foods such as chicken or beef." This recipe from The Smart Shopper Diabetes Cookbook, by Robyn Webb. To order directly from the American Diabetes Association, click here.
Teriyaki sauce is typically very high in sugar. This homemade version is much lower carb than store bought. If you can find low carb teriyaki sauce in the store, you can substitute that rather than make your own.
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