Keto Crab Celery Sticks If you’re looking for a quick and easy appetizer that will impress your guests, look no further than Crab Stuffed Celery Sticks. This dish is simple to make but looks and tastes like you spent hours in the kitchen. Best of all, it’s healthy and low calorie, so you can indulge without feeling guilty. Crab Stuffed Celery The great thing about this ...
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Warm Barley Salad with Grilled Veggies
Warm Barley Salad with Grilled Veggies is a hearty pantry clean out dish that is delicious for lunch or dinner side dish! These days we all seem to be digging a little deeper in our pantry and I am no exception. Long days at home and no good reason to leave have me going through all of those ingredients that I have bought in the past with good intentions, but never ...
Easy Chicken Risotto with Zucchini
Easy Chicken Risotto with Zucchini is an elegant and easy weeknight meal for family and friends! Try one of our variations on this dish to use up whatever veggies you've got in your fridge. I feel like risotto gets a bad rap as being something difficult to cook and really....it's not. Does it take some time? Oh sure, but it's not hard work or technically difficult. So ...
Spicy Tomato and Tuna Pasta
Every now and then, I get a night completely kid free. The stars will align and both of our children find themselves a place other than our house to crash for the night. Usually at a friend's house surrounded by junk food and video games. When those rare occasions happen, I find myself in quite the predicament...what do I cook for dinner? The answer is this quick and easy ...
Sausage and White Bean Soup
Sausage and White Bean Soup is an easy dinner for cool nights! Packed with creamy white beans and hearty smoked sausage, this meal is sure to please just about everyone. When the weather turns chilly, nothing warms you up like a hearty bowl of soup. Sometimes though, soup can be an all day affair, but this Sausage and White Bean Soup is not only filling and ...
Grilled Veggie Sandwich
Impress your vegetarian and vegan friends with this healthy and filling grilled veggie sandwich! Grilled Veggie Sandwiches are something I never thought I would catch myself eating when I was younger. Of course, I also subsisted on fried chicken sandwiches and cheeseburgers, so...what did I know? These days, I actually crave veggies and I'm smart enough to understand ...
Keto Spinach Artichoke Chicken
Long before keto entered our life, we ate the ubiquitous boneless, skinless chicken breast a lot. Probably (if I'm honest) more than I ever wanted to. But being relatively cheap and quick to cook made a bigger difference many nights than whether or not it actually tasted delicious. Since discovering keto over a year ago, slathering a bland and boring chicken breast with ...
Sauteed Swiss Chard and Summer Squash
Sauteed Swiss Chard and Summer Squash is a quick and easy healthy side dish with lots of feta cheese and a little bit of spice! Gardening is in my blood. I cannot remember a time when my family didn't grow something. Whether it was the large vegetable garden of my youth or the 10 acre vineyard of today's family winery, I have been surrounded by fresh grown fruits and ...
Classic Shrimp Cocktail with Keto Cocktail Sauce
This article contains affiliate links, which should you purchase through that link we would receive a small compensation at no cost to you. As always, we do not recommend anything on this site that we do not already use and love. I have lived in a land-locked state for all of my life, therefore, any kind of fresh seafood is a rare treat. I can vividly recall a trip to the ...
Tomato and White Bean Salad with Basil
Tomato and White Bean Salad is an easy, healthy dish to keep in your fridge for a quick lunch or light supper. Pair it with a side salad and you are good to go! Originally published January 2010 - updated January 2019 I am not fond of lettuce. I like it on my burgers or sandwiches, or as a garnish to a nice plate of fish, but in general I do not like lettuce. Oh ...
12 Keto Friendly Family Meals
As a woman who has been following a ketogenic diet for a while now, I can tell you that as far as "diets" go I sincerely love it. Once you get through the first few days of sugar cravings and carb withdrawls, it really is a relatively easy diet to follow. There's no real measuring, counting or stressing out over portions. You just eat when you are hungry and make sure it's full ...
Low Carb Spinach Feta Greek Pie
Being low-carb while the rest of your family isn't can be...trying. It takes some fortitude to resist the pretty much constant temptation to eat all of the carby things. It also takes planning. As with any "diet", failing to plan = setting yourself up for failure. That's why I try my best to keep easy to eat things stocked in my fridge. Things like this Low Carb Spinach and ...
Deep Dish Chicken Bacon Quiche
In the land of make ahead dinners and leftover recreations, the humble quiche reigns supreme. Egg and pie crust can be filled with all manner of ingredients and are especially well suited to bits and bobs of dinners past that may be hanging out in your fridge. This super easy Deep Dish Chicken Bacon Quiche can be altered to fit whatever you have lying around needing to be ...
15 Best Skillet Dinner Recipes
My absolute favorite quick and easy dinner is an easy skillet dinner! I love them so much that I even made an e-cookbook with some of my favorites (free when you sign up for our emails!). You can do so much with one big skillet! Any type of meat - chicken, beef, sausage or pork - works great in a skillet meal. Or go vegetarian! Anything goes in a skillet meal. Here are my Top ...
Braised Chicken Thighs with Spinach and White Beans
Braised Chicken Thighs with Spinach and White Beans is a comforting autumn dish that is easy to pull together any day of the week. The first taste of Fall arrived this morning. 62 degrees with the highs only getting to the mid-70s sometime this afternoon. I am not complaining one little bit. After several weeks of 90 degree weather every day this is a much needed respite ...