Skillet Pasta Made Easy: A Healthy, Hearty Weeknight Win

Skillet Pasta Made Easy: A Healthy, Hearty Weeknight Win

When life gets busy — and let’s face it, when isn’t it? — dinner can feel like one more thing to juggle. But a quick, balanced and comforting meal is possible, thanks to this one-pot skillet pasta. Inspired by family favorites and packed with better-for-you...
Healthy Easter Treats and Crafts to Celebrate Together

Healthy Easter Treats and Crafts to Celebrate Together

Easter is a time of joy and renewal, a celebration of hope, faith and togetherness.   While chocolate bunnies and marshmallow chicks are part of the fun, Easter doesn’t have to mean a sugar overload. With a little creativity, you can whip up healthier treats and make...
Connecting to Hispanic Heritage Through Food

Connecting to Hispanic Heritage Through Food

Food is a means to connect to our own culture and experience others’ cultures. Jen Bays Avis, MEd, LDN, RDN, CDE, a registered dietitian with St. Francis Medical Group, shares recipes influenced by Hispanic culture. Make this appetizer, entrée and dessert to have a...
Keep Cool and Keep the Summer Diet in Check with Gazpacho

Keep Cool and Keep the Summer Diet in Check with Gazpacho

On these sweltering days, a lot of variables come into play when we think of cooking. It must be healthy (because summer), but we also don’t want to spend time over a stove or checking on something in a hot oven. Enter gazpacho. This Spanish cold soup is essentially...
Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Skip the Meat But Keep the Flavor this Season

Every Friday in Lent, Catholics follow the tradition of only eating seafood or otherwise eating meatless meals as a symbolic gesture of abstinence. But whether or not you adhere to this tradition, the practice of limiting your meat consumption—especially red meat—has...