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Whether you’re looking for healthy living ideas to jumpstart your next diet, change up your dinner plans, or looking for something lite, you’ll be able to find something right here. This category features all of our healthier recipes, rolled up into one, easy location. We cover everything from smoothies to detoxes to salads. Our recipes are budget, family, and living-on-your-own friendly, and easy to make! We’ve made every recipe featured here and our posts will let you know how we liked the dish. Let’s be honest, we’ve loved pretty much everything. Leave a comment if you have one. If you’re looking for something more specific use our search bar or check out one of our niche categories. Thanks for stopping by, hope to have you back soon!

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Miso Glazed Salmon with Cashew Dressing

July 11, 2024
miso glazed salmon

If you tried the salmon quinoa salad then you’ll love this miso glazed salmon with spicy cashew dressing. This recipe is a mix of a bunch of different recipes we mashed to make our own. We’ve been experimenting with rice bowls and making sure to include salmon more often in our diet. One of my favorite bowls so far has been this blackened salmon and corn salsa rice bowl. Lilies…

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Crispy Chicken Salad with Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

June 20, 2024
honey mustard vinaigrette

We’re continuing our journey through “make your favorite fast food salad at home” with a trip to Just Salad. One of my favorites is their honey crispy chicken salad. It combines corn, romaine, spinach, red cabbage, crispy chicken, crumbled feta, quinoa, crispy onions, carrots with honey mustard vinaigrette drizzled all over. This salad fills me up every time. To make this crispy chicken salad at home, I pared it down,…

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Crispy Chicken Salad with Poblano Ranch Dressing

May 15, 2024
Poblano Ranch Dressing

I’m hitting a wall on lunch options. It’s the most boring meal of the day; I’d rather skip it. Once we started making these salads, I felt inspired to continue my journey to find new lunch options. So the next stop on this salad journey is a crispy chicken salad with poblano ranch dressing. I took some inspiration from some of my and Brian’s favorite salads. Broiled corn, avocado, pickled…

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Guacamole Greens Salad

May 1, 2024
Guacamole Greens Salad

Sweetgreen is one of our favorite salad places when we’re eating lunch in the city. Once it started to feel like spring, we went into salad mode. We’ve been in salad mode for two months now! I thought it would be a good idea to try and recreate one of our favorite Sweetgreen salads, guacamole greens. We love our salads. One of Brian’s favorites is from Cravings. Personally, I like something…

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Kale Salad: Cooking Through Cravings

June 15, 2022
Kale Salad

This kale salad is really as basic as it looks, but we loved it. To be honest, we tried this recipe to make the croutons, haha. They were really good and are the star of the salad. If you’re looking for a lite, yet seemingly hearty salad, this may be for you. Lilies and Loafers has affiliate relationships, so we may get a small share of revenue from your purchases.…

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Salmon Quinoa Salad: Cooking Through Cravings

May 29, 2022
Salmon Quinoa Salad

The literal secret sauce in this salmon quinoa salad recipe is the carrot-ginger-miso dressing. It was a surprising and bright addition to the dish overall. This meal makes a perfect dinner in the summer. When we’re meal planning for the week, we like to balance with meat, fish and other vegetarian options. We started doing that a few years ago when we realized our entire week was filled with chicken…

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Roasted Salmon and Vegetables

November 15, 2021
roasted salmon and vegetables

Every once in a while, we just get sucked into one channel for a few weeks. A little over a year ago, we were watching Food Network all the time. The last time we did that was during my entire parental leave with Liam. One day, I was watching GZ make a really delicious-looking meal on the Food Network. GZ was making a one-pan roasted salmon and vegetable dinner. The…

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Bulgur Salad

July 15, 2020
bulgur salad

Last summer, we had an indoor BBQ for the Fourth of July where we made this delicious bulgur salad. We had never made bulgur wheat, and to be honest, I was a little nervous. However, Martha Stewart for the win! The bulgur wheat seemed odd, the thought of cherries, lemon juice, and walnuts made me think twice about making it. But then why would we make this? TO TRY SOMETHING NEW!…

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Cobb Salad: Cooking Through Cravings

July 8, 2020
Cobb Salad

I love everything about this cobb salad: the dressing, the flavors, and the hint of spice. I love how it makes me feel like a Kardashian with a never-ending bowl of salad. While there’s a bit more prep than your typical salad, it’s so worth it. Since we’re both working from home, we build in lunch and dinner prep at the beginning of the week to make our days run…

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Immune Boosting Ginger Shot

March 31, 2020
Ginger Shot

Hey you, we see you. Thanks for finding us. Right now, we are (by “we” I mean “the world”) going through something. We’re all feeling something: stressed, upset, anxious, isolated, and a million other emotions all at once. You’re not alone. No, really, we want you to know that. While we may not be able to enjoy the physical presence of our friends, family, and neighbors right now, we will…

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Kale Super Smoothie

November 27, 2019
Kale Super Smoothie

Thanksgiving is upon us and most of us will enjoy turkey, a bunch of savory side dishes, and pie. I think I love next-day Thanksgiving food more than day-of. I love chilled apple or pumpkin pie for breakfast, turkey sandwiches layered with sides for lunch, and constant snacking on Brussels sprouts, greens, and butternut squash, and other sides all day. But soon the leftovers are no more and the feeling…

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Everything Snap Peas

November 24, 2019
Everything Snap Peas

This past summer’s Food Network magazine was on point. Not only did we find the blueberry basil iced tea, but we found this everything snap peas recipe. One may ask, what is the “everything” in everything snap peas? It’s everything seasoning like what you’d find on an everything bagel! Trader Joes has an “everything but the bagel” seasoning and it’s fantastic! Snap and sugar snap peas are frequent sides at…

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Air Fried French Fries

February 20, 2019
Hamilton Beach Air Fryer

Our 2019 goals are not off to a great start. Target runs (big-box store shopping in general) have reverted back to their old ways. Our reading? Still on the same books. And a balanced diet? Sure, I think that’s the one goal we’re sort of hitting, at least with these air fried french fries. It’s so hard to try to wait until you’re out of everything. But then a few…

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Sweet Potato and Pomegranate Salad: Cooking Through Cravings

October 17, 2018
Sweet Potato and Pomegranate Salad

The more proper name for this salad should be ‘Harvest Salad’. This will make a great starter or side salad for Thanksgiving or compliment any fall meal. While pretty basic, this sweet potato and pomegranate salad is delicious. Everything works together really well and the garlicky honey-dijon dressing pulled it together. The original salad was filled with butternut squash, which would be just as delicious, but we substituted it out…

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Orange C-Booster Cold Buster Smoothie

November 29, 2017
Cold Buster Smoothie

November and December are our busiest months of the year and we’re always on the move. Isn’t everyone? Once we get on the other side of the holiday season, I feel like we always crash. Usually, I’m the first to get sick, followed by Fatima. But when I do catch a cold, my go-to remedy is Jamba Juice’s Orange C-Booster. After a few days, my cold diminishes. To make it…

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