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A Recipe for Garden Turkey Meatballs and Spaghetti and Two Helpful Tools for...
With all the recipes out there in cookbooks, magazines, newspapers, and on the internet, do you ever scratch your head and wonder, “What should I make for dinner tonight?” I found myself doing just...
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‘Old’ Wedding Photos of The Meal Makeover Moms … A Recipe for Lemony Couscous...
When was the last time you attended a bridal shower or baby shower? For us, it’s been a long, long time. Janice was married in 1988 and Liz tied the knot in 1992, so graduation parties are more our...
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A Recipe for California Avocado Macaroni Summer Salad … Plus Other Cookout...
Summer pasta salads are often loaded with mayonnaise, adding gobs of fat but not a whole lot of nutrition. We give classic macaroni salad a makeover by swapping out the mayo for a homemade dressing...
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Family Mealtime Inspiration, A Recipe for The Marvelous Mediterranean, And a...
What are your favorite go-to family dinners? For Tina Ruggiero, a fellow dietitian, friend, and author of The Truly Healthy Family Cookbook, it’s recipes like All-Star Kale and Potato Frittata,...
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Celebrate the New Year with a Recipe for Slimmed Down Scallop and Cauliflower...
To ring in the New Year, we decided to get a little more fancy than usual here at The Meal Makeover Moms’ Kitchen. For the holidays, Liz’s friends, Chris and Marybeth, send her five pounds of gorgeous...
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A Recipe for Pasta Primavera with Zucchini, Cherry Tomatoes, and Ricotta from...
When it comes to feeding your family, what’s your biggest dinnertime dilemma? Lack of time? A tight budget? Feeding picky eaters? If getting healthy dinners on the table night after night feels like—or...
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10 Back-to-School Good Nutrition Tips and a Lunchbox Recipe for California...
This lunchbox recipe features orzo pasta, avoids, olives, cucumbers, pine nuts, and feta. Read on for the recipe as well as 10 back-to-school nutrition tips. It’s hard to believe that between us, we...
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How to Dehydrate Tomatoes + Gluten-Free Fusilli with Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Preserve your bounty of summer tomatoes with this easy oven-dried technique, and toss them into this healthy family dinner made with gluten-free pasta and a low-fat cheese sauce. Right now, my garden...
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A Healthy Pin It Party: Blue Plate Special
Finding healthy recipes on Pinterest is getting a whole lot easier these days thanks to Pin It Parties like the one being hosted by Lindsay at The Lean Green Bean. To participate in the party, we were...
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Tortellini Lunchbox Salad for National Pasta Month
Add excitement to your child’s lunchbox with this Tortellini Lunchbox Salad. It’s filled with color, flavor, fun, and great nutrition … and it’s easy to make too! October is National Pasta Month. In my...
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Two New Recipes: Peanut Butter & Honey Noodles and Peanut Butter Chocolate...
Plant-based diets have received quite a bit of attention over the past few months … from the growing popularity of Meatless Monday to the recommendation in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans to...
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Food Network Throwdown / Part II: Giada’s Butternut Squash Lasagna Gets a...
In Part I of our Food Network Throwdown, we gave the Neely’s Whoopie Pies a healthy makeover. Today, for Part II of our series, we take on Giada De Laurentiis and her rich and luscious recipe for...
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World Heart Day, Recipes for Bistro Chicken Pasta Salad and Quick Dark...
September 29th is World Heart Day, so we decided to devote this week’s Cooking with the Moms podcast to easy tips for eating and savoring a heart-healthy diet. Back in the day, a heart-healthy diet was...
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Hamburger Helper Gets a Recipe Rescue: Give our Healthier Hamburger Helper a...
Walk into your local supermarket and chances are, that sitting along a very long shelf, you’ll find not one, not two, not three but as many as 40 varieties of Hamburger Helper. Convenient? Yes....
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A Q&A with the Food Editor of American Profile Magazine and our Recipe for...
Back in early August, we received a call from Candace Floyd, Food Editor at American Profile magazine. The magazine was interested in featuring us in an upcoming story on healthy comfort food...
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Nutrition Over the Decades: An Interview with Janice’s Mentor, Katherine...
Katherine Musgrave is the reason I became a registered dietitian. During my sophomore year at the University of Maine, I took an elective course called Intro to Food and Nutrition, and Katherine was my...
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Eating and Shopping My Way Through Boston’s North End
Liz and I are up to our eyeballs testing recipes this week and have had no time to record a podcast, so I thought I’d share some photos of a recent trip I took to Boston’s historic North End with Don...
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Our Recipe for Skinny Fettuccine Alfredo Appears in Every Day with Rachael Ray!
Fettuccini Alfredo gets a healthy makeover with reduced-fat milk, grated Parmesan cheese, and fresh herbs. Your waistline will thank you. Fettuccini Alfredo gets a healthy makeover! Yes, it IS...
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The Power of Citrus, a Recipe for Leek & Lemon Linguini (with Shrimp), and...
One of the best things about winter is all the citrus fruit available at the market. As long as there’s still a nip in the air, we’ll keep grabbing for oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, clementines …...
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A Recipe for Simple Fresh Mozzarella Pasta Casserole AND a Giveaway for The...
No one ever said feeding kids would be easy. Just when you nail one mealtime dilemma, say getting kids well fed and out the door on time in the morning, more dilemmas pop up: making school lunches that...
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