Add Healthy Foods to Your Recipes

February 17, 2009

Learning to incorporate healthy foods into recipes can make it easier to get the variety of nutrition you need. Try some of these ideas:

• Mix rolled oats into meat loaf.
• Bake vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and squash with fish steaks or chicken breasts.
• Add frozen or fresh vegetables to canned soup.
• Steam vegetables along with pasta and serve with tomato sauce.
• Use chopped fruit in breads or muffins.
• Add chopped apricots, apples or pears to a green salad.

You’ll soon find eating the recommended 2 cups of fruits and 2-1/2 to 3 cups of vegetables daily is easy and fits into a lot of your favorite recipes.

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