Healthy Crock Pot Red Chicken Chili

A delicious healthy slow cooker chicken chili with some of that great red chili taste. You get to "have your cake and eat it too" with this recipe.

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Chicken Carnitas AKA Carnitas de Pollo

Just the title will get some people going. After all carnitas are pieces of fatty pork cooked in more fat...right? But to me carnitas are "little Mexican spiced up pieces of meat" so it fits... for me. With an infusion of great citrus flavor, you'll love this healthier version of carnitas.


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Healthier Cinnamon Bun Doughnuts with Cream Cheese Frosting

Who doesn't like cinnamon rolls? Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could get that great taste at home in  30 minutes with a healthier low fat baked doughnut? Yep you can.

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Easy Crock Pot Pork Chops with Gravy

Fall apart tender pork chops covered with gravy. It makes your mouth water. All in an easy slow cooker recipe.

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Healthier Pork Carnitas with Pork Tenderloin

Packed full of tasty goodness. A simple "skinny" version of Pork Carnitas that is low fat. Start with a pork tenderloin cut and spice it up. Brown on the stove top and then braise in the oven with a citrus infused liquid. Finish with some browning and you will be the kitchen hero.

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Grilled Blackened Tilapia

Wonderfully spicy grill tilapia. Keep them coming back for more with this blackened tilapia. Healthy eating has never been so good nor so simple and easy.

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Low Fat Whole Wheat Blueberry Scones

Guilty pleasures - low fat edition. I love a tasty sweet something for breakfast but they usually ar not good for me.It must be good for you... it has blueberries and whole wheat. Plus it is only 200 calories and just under 3 grams of fat.

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Healthier Low Fat Carrot Cake

Wonderfully moist and almost good for you. At about 250 calories and 7 grams of fat you get one of the best carrot cakes I have had plus it won't leave a pool of oil on the plate. I away though carrot cake would be hard to make. Nope... it was relatively easy with 3/10 skill level and just a little more work than a coffee cake. You can do this cake.

A normal recipe for carrot cake starts with a cup of oil. Read that as almost 2000 calories and you have not added even a carrot yet. You can't really do that very often. So I looked around a lot for just the right recipe. Many had "odd" ingredients. While I'm not a "all natural" guy, it still needs to be reasonably natural ingredients.

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Zero Fat Biscuits

Tender and fluffy with really good taste in a non-guilty zero fat biscuit. Some recipes are low fat but this one is zero. Using non fat yogurt to replace the butter and milk, you still get great rise and texture. Plus, just a few ingredients will get you there.

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Healthier Whole Wheat Banana Bread

A healthier banana bread with mostly whole wheat, less fat and sugar. Drop the calories by over a third and the fat by 75%. It's time to fell less guilty for that great taste.

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Oven Baked Butter Lemon Salmon

A tasty recipe for salmon baked with butter and lemon. This is your basic 20 minute weeknight recipe that you can serve company anytime.

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Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets

A kid friendly healthier baked chicken nugget for lunch time or a weeknight meals. Done in 25 minutes. No mystery ingredient to go into the kiddies with these. You know what is in these nuggets. (You might say pediatrician recommended...)

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Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore

Another "dump and go" easy slow cooker recipe. A classic healthy Italian recipe that is low in fat.  The chicken comes out moist, fall apart tender and packed with taste.

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Healthy Crock Pot Chicken Vegetable Soup

A wonderfully tasty and healthy slow cooker soup for the colder days to come that's chucked full of veggie goodness with a little extra sweetness due to white corn. Plus it's slow cooker easy.

Somewhat inspired by a cooks.com recipe with only a few minor changes. The biggest change was from the white corn that added a lot of extra sweetness.

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Microwave Sweet Potato Chips

It's a fashionable chip. It has it all... First, it is sweet potato. Sweet potatoes seem to be the new health food rage. Everyone seems to love them. Second, they are low fat and somewhat good for you. Last, they are microwave easy and very tasty.

Sweet potatoes seem to be "on fire". Many restaurants have added sweet potato fries to their menus. And more and more articles and recipes are appearing. So I jumped in and went for it. The results are quite nice. A different taste and perfect for you sweet potato fans.

I did microwave chips from russet potatoes a few weeks ago and a comment from Chris at Nibble Me This suggested sweet potatoes. Well, I went on vacation shortly after that and forgot about it. However, just in casual reading, I ran into two articles on microwave sweet potato chips. It had to be.

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Easiest Crispy Oven Baked French Fries

Here are the secrets to the best oven French fry ever. Tasty, crispy, healthy and did I say easy. Now you can do it too.

All the blogs have oven baked french fries. So I'll jump in too. But I don't want to be flipping half way through. I what relatively simple prep and simpler cooking. But I want crispy and tasty too. I'm so picky...

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Healthy Microwave Potato Chips

An amazingly simple, tasty and crispy chip. You just slice a potato up and microwave it. What could be easier? You control the oil and salt. Make it a "healthy potato chip" if you want. Make just a few or make a lot. Flavor them up or just a little salt. And lastly, cheap to make.

I stumbled on this somewhere and had some serious doubts as did my wife. But it works great. I have read so many versions, I can't give an inspired by credit. There are many variations. The cooking times recommended varied from 4 minutes to 10 minutes. Some cooked on high then flipped the chips and continued to cook on 50%. One even stepped it down a few more times. Some soaked the chips and some didn't. You get the idea...
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Grilled Pork Tenderloin Fajitas

I saved the best for last. The chicken and beef fajitas were great. I rated them 5. But this is a shoe in for top ten of the year. Mexican and pork. Oh what a combo. Add in the grill and you have one of the best 30 minute meals ever.

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Healthy Crockpot White Bean Chili Spiced Up

You could say a lot about this chili. You could call it healthy, low fat, and low glycemic. I'm will just call it excellent.

I have always loved white bean in soups or chili and slow cooker chili fits my current life style.  It is just the right thing. One of my favorite chilies uses pepper jack cheese and salsa for spicing. I want to control the spicing and get the cheese out of the recipe.

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Simple Healthy Crockpot Italian Chicken Vegetable Soup

An easy slow cooker soup. It's chicken, veggies and tomatoes with an Italian flair. A healthy soup for all diets but good enough for the first course of that fancy Italian meal. But the real plus is the taste and ease of this soup.

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