Chicken Sausage with Lentils

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Lentils and chicken sausage team up to provide a lean and delicious meal that comes together with minimum hassle while you’re handling other little end-of-day tasks.

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Lemon-Ginger Chicken

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This classic stir-fried chicken dish is an excellent introduction to techniques for producing a flavorful dish with aromatics that are just cooked enough to flavor the dish, tender meat, and crisp veggies.

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BLT Pasta Salad

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Made for a school lunch program, this pasta salad will please picky eaters of all ages.

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Tandoori Shrimp Skewers

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Serve your shrimp skewers over a bed of brown or white basmati rice with a side of steamed or grilled veggies for a quick and healthy dinner. With such an easy preparation, spicing up your weeknight meals with this dish is almost as easy as ordering takeout from your favorite Indian place.

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Black-eyed Pea Curry

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If you love curries but are afraid of cooking them, this is the perfect recipe to start with. The flavors are robust, but the process is simple. If you have difficulty finding some of the spices (cardamom pods are often not available at your typical grocery store), use dried, ground spices, starting with 1/8th of […]

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Breakfast Grain Salad

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If you are sick to death of the normal breakfast routine and want something wildly different, this tangy cold grain salad is on the job. Take note: when we say it feeds eight people, we mean eight really hungry people. If you’ve got kids with smaller appetites, you could be feeding this to them for […]

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Baked Oatmeal Cups

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These little cups are the champs of make-ahead breakfast foods. Mix up a big batch at the beginning of the week and keep them in the fridge for an easy reheat option for breakfast or snacks. They’re definitely better warm as the texture is that of baked oatmeal, not of muffins. Toss in a little […]

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Black Bean Brownies

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Erythritol is a sugar alcohol that is 60–70% as sweet as table sugar yet it is almost non-caloric, does not affect blood sugar, does not cause tooth decay, and is partially absorbed by the body.  It is less likely to cause gastric side effects than other sugar alcohols due to its unique digestion pathway.

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