Note: This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Kim and Deborah who each won a copy of this great cookbook!
I have a special treat for you today, which is a giveaway for The Clean Plates Cookbook: Sustainable, Delicious, and Healthier Eating For Every Body, by Jared Koch and Jill Silverman Hough. (Running Press.) I will be giving away copies of this cookbook to two lucky winners!
This beautiful cookbook is crazy full of absolutely delicious and healthy looking meals that I wish someone would fix for me. But it also features tons of inspiring information about what it means to be a lifelong healthy eater. Although it contains recipes for meat based meals, there are also a lot of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. So seriously, something for everyone!
To enter to win a copy of The Clean Plates Cookbook, write your favorite healthy meal in the comments section below. I will randomly choose two winners Monday, February 25th at 9:00 P.M. PST.
Here, I’ll start. My favorite healthy meal is pesto made from kale instead of basil. Not only is it a year-round cheap option, but keeping a jar of it in the fridge has saved me from takeout pizza hell on multiple occasions. And yes, it’s just as delicious as regular pesto.
Now, your turn! What’s your favorite healthy meal?
Please enter one time only, U.S. residents only.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
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My favorite healthy meal is roasting sweet potatoes and carrots.
I make a massive stir-fry of veggies: zucchini, yellow squash, onion, mushrooms, broccoli, red bell pepper–whatever is in the crisper drawer. You can add spices, garlic, and herbs to make it Italian, Indian, Mexican, whatever you want. Add protein of your choice and it’s a fabulous supper. Leftover veggies are good in fritattas, on pizza, over pasta or rice. Yum!
Hydroponic lettuce locally grown with local strawberries and grilled chicken. Topped with walnuts and my homemade balsamic dressing. Yum! Now I want to eat that!!
Farro salad with kale, cabbage, fruit or tomatoes, cheese, toasted nuts, and ravining goddess dressing… mmm! Endlessly variable, which keeps it interesting.
Black bean soup from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home. So fast and easy (a little less fast if you cook dried black beans, but still pretty easy with some planning). And all of the ingredients are staples that I generally have around, except the fresh jalapeno and cilantro.
Lentil soup – hands down my favorite, least expensive and filling meal. Dry lentils, water, carrots, potatoes, celery, tomatoes, a little olive oil, parsley, salt and pepper – put it in a pot and cook for ~ one hour. It freezes well too.
My favorite healthy meal is what we call lentil stir fry. I par-cook lentils and add to stir fried peppers, carrots, celery, garlic and onions. We then can mix it up by adding tomatoes, kale or spinach and just about any other veggies we want. Even my carnavore hubby likes it and doesn’t complain that “theres no meat”. Served with a green salad and crusty whole grain bread, it’s amazing!
Our favorite healthy meal is a simple noodle bowl – I just chop up or shred various veggies (like baby bok choy, carrots, green onion, etc.) and heat up broth, then pour it over fresh linguine in big bowls (which are a mish-mash of any big bowls that are clean, like smaller mixing bowls and serving bowls). The kids love it and get to practice their chopstick skills.
I really love a bowl of beans and rice. It’s healthy, simple and cheap.
Avocado Banana Applesauce breakfast bread and a coffee with steamed soymilk and a healthy glug of maple syrup. Yummers
Black beans & brown rice with salsa & a big green salad.
Any veggie left looking sad and lonely in the fridge sauteed lightly and then thrown in with scrambled eggs. Veggie eggs! Yum!
Baked Cheesy Quinoa
I roll my own sushi: rice, avocado, tofu and a spicy sauce.
Spinach salad w/ oranges, craisins, red onion, feta,and homemade honey Dijon topped with a piece of grilled salmon.
(Very) locally sourced drug-free, laying mash-free, free-range chicken eggs, made into an omelet with fresh from the naturally grown garden bell pepper, green onions (scallions) and tomatoes chopped into it. I could eat one almost every night -yum.
Fajitas – easy to prep, easy to make and endlessly customizable!
Our favorite and cheap healthy meal is an egg burrito. We use our own eggs from our girls – scramble, slap in a tortilla with a little cheese and salsa and avocado if I have it. Good for breakfast, lunch and dinner and really sticks with ya.
Lately I’ve been loving baked sweet potatoes topped with spicy black beans and a heap of kale
My favorite healthy meal is wild salmon filets baked in parchment along with tiny golden potatoes and whatever veges are fresh and in season. Sometimes I put in lemon slices or sprigs of dill from my garden, but often I just use salt and pepper with a light drizzle of olive oil. It’s ridiculously easy and really really tasty.
Lentil soup with kale, made with vegetable broth! Meatless and crockpot friendly… a busy mom’s dream combo!
My favorite meal to make for guests is salmon with a simple marinade of EVOO, dijon mustard, soy sauce and garlic. For the side dish I make a warm potato salad by boiling potatoes and then adding fresh green beans in for the last two minutes of cooking. I add halved cherry tomatoes and a dressing of EVOO, garlic, dijon mustard, lemon juice and lemon zest. Fresh and yummy and I can make it with my eyes closed – almost!
Robin
Cary, NC
My favorite healthy meal is spinach edamame hummus!
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie has been a big hit around here lately.
My favorite healthy meal is coconut curry shrimp. Shrimp, coconut milk (homemade from dried coconut shreds), curry powder from a local spice shop, onions, bell peppers, and spinach. So very delicious over rice! It is also a very quick meal to make. When the veggies are in season and the shrimp is on sale it can also be somewhat frugal as well.
I love a good vegetable stir fry with rice. So simple but so good.
I am very fond of a good vegetable soup or stir-fry with whatever is in season or preserved/canned from my own garden. A little leftover grilled chicken or some crumbled local goat cheese is a good addition.
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