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Ground beef on a designed background Credit: Adobe Stock / Coprid Ground beef on a designed background Credit: Adobe Stock / Coprid Ground beef on a designed background Credit: Adobe Stock / Coprid Ground beef on a designed background Credit: Adobe Stock / Coprid Keeping a package of ground beef in the freezer is an easy way to ensure you always have a healthy, versatile protein on hand. While using frozen ground beef requires some forethought (after all, it needs time to defrost), what happens when dinner plans change and you no longer need the ground beef?...

Farfalle with Tuna, Lemon & Fennel Farfalle with Tuna, Lemon & Fennel Farfalle with Tuna, Lemon & Fennel Farfalle with Tuna, Lemon & Fennel If you have diabetes, making carbohydrates part of your healthy diet can be confusing. It’s a misconception that folks with diabetes should avoid all carbs. Below you’ll find what you need to know about carbs, which are the best to include in meals and what your meals should look like....

While it’s only one day, and honestly, usually only one meal—all at the end of November—Google search trends for “Thanksgiving menu” begin to climb in early October. That means many of us spend about 7 weeks dreaming about the big day, Turkey Day, and planning out the perfect spread. We can now score great ideas from countless sources from TikTok to the TODAY Show to blogs and magazines (we might be partial to one in particular!...

The Situation When Sarah Montgomery arrived in Rabinal, Guatemala, in 2000, the country was still recovering from a 36-year civil war that had ended just four years earlier, leaving villages decimated and farmlands scorched. As a recent college graduate, she had come to learn Spanish, but stayed to volunteer with a project helping war widows replant gardens. Yet the women told her: “We can’t save these seeds we’re given.” She learned that many well-meaning international nonprofits handing out seeds were shortsighted: typically, their seeds were hybrids....

Even in grade school, you probably knew that there was some link between your stomach and your brain. Remember those butterflies you felt when you saw your crush? Or the stomach-in-knots feeling that flared up when you were in trouble? “Stress can play a major role in tummy troubles, even initiating symptoms when there are no changes in diet. But people are often pretty surprised to learn that a whopping 90% of the communication between the brain and the gut is actually moving from the gut to the brain,” explains Desiree Nielsen, RD, a Vancouver, Canada-based registered dietitian and the author of Good for Your Gut....

vegan sushi vegan sushi vegan sushi vegan sushi Pictured Recipe: Vegan Sushi with Tomato “Tuna” To be clear, I’m very far from being a vegan in my normal day-to-day life. As the Test Kitchen Manager at EatingWell, I develop and taste an average of 40 recipes per week, most of which are not vegan. At home, I put a hefty splash of half-and-half in my coffee every morning, assemble a small cheese plate instead of dessert almost every night, and my freezer is stocked with a quarter of a cow, half a pig, and venison and rabbits my husband hunted himself....

a photo of Ilona Maher with a gradient background Credit: Maher: Michael Kovac/Getty Images. Collage: Cassie Basford. Ilona Maher is the current face of women’s rugby. The Team USA star became a viral sensation when she started documenting her experiences at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on TikTok. Since then, she has accumulated over a million followers by promoting body positivity, enjoying her favorite foods, making “train with me” content and more....

Bento Bento Bento Bento More than five years of packing lunches quickly teaches you survival-of-the-fittest methods. I’ve learned how to create a healthy bento box lunch for my kids that they’ll actually eat (and get them out the door before missing carpool or the bus). For me, it’s important to pack foods with a variety of nutrients, textures and flavors. But it can’t just be healthy-my girls are selective about the foods they eat and I want them to look forward to lunch....

whipped egg whites in a bowl Credit: Getty Images whipped egg whites in a bowl Credit: Getty Images whipped egg whites in a bowl Credit: Getty Images whipped egg whites in a bowl Credit: Getty Images Sometimes a recipe will call for only egg yolks, leaving you with more egg whites than you may know what to do with. Aside from freezing them or adding them to omelets or scrambles, what can you do with excess egg whites?...

Vegan Freezer Breakfast Burritos Pictured Recipe: Vegan Freezer Breakfast Burritos See if switching to a completely plant-based diet is right for you. Mention a vegan diet just a few years ago and you might have gotten an eye roll or two. For many folks, the plant-based diet-which excludes all dairy and animal products-once conjured up visions of crunchy granola and Birkenstocks. But no more. While only about 2 percent of Americans describe themselves as vegan, the diet is becoming more mainstream, with celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and Beyoncé claiming to be followers (well, at least part-time)....

Cottage Cheese vs. Greek Yogurt Picking healthy snacks at the grocery store can feel pretty daunting at times. There are thousands of foods to choose from, many touted as beneficial or nutritional. We put two popular high-protein snacks—plain Greek yogurt and cottage cheese—head-to-head in terms of nutrition to find out which is healthier. Let’s take a look at the nutritional information for one cup of plain low-fat Greek yogurt and compare it to the nutrition in one cup of low-fat cottage cheese....

Homemade Ranch Dressing with Veggies It is probably no surprise that fruits and vegetables are the cornerstone of a healthy eating pattern. That being said, most Americans aren’t eating enough. The CDC reports that only one in ten Americans is getting the recommended amount of produce in their day. It can be confusing to know exactly what and how much you need (what is a serving, anyway?). A recent study published in Circulation did a comprehensive review of previous research to find out how much and what type of produce you actually need in a day....

ina garten knife Credit: Getty / NBC / Contributor ina garten knife Credit: Getty / NBC / Contributor ina garten knife Credit: Getty / NBC / Contributor ina garten knife Credit: Getty / NBC / Contributor We seem to become bigger and bigger fans of Ina Garten by the week—especially during 2020. From her supersized quarantine cosmos to her so-simple breakfasts to her new cookbook sneak peeks (psst…it drops tomorrow!...

Making of Fresh Southern Succotash with Bacon Credit: Andrea Mathis Growing up in the South, summertime was always my favorite season. My sisters and I would spend countless hours playing with our cousins, chasing down the ice cream truck and making up dance routines that were performed for only our closest friends. And when the sun went down, we knew that it was time to head into the house, wash up for dinner and get ready to enjoy a bowl of my mom’s famous succotash!...

Hearth and Hand Spring collection Hearth and Hand Spring Collection | Credit: Target.com Don’t ask me why, but Target has been one of my happy places for 15 years. My husband doesn’t understand it and sometimes neither do I, but all I know is I really miss running in for toothpaste and leaving with a new mug, towel and cute sweater. That’s currently out of the question due to social distancing, but the other night I started browsing the spring Hearth & Hand collection and all the cute Joanna Gaines goodies made me so happy (for a few minutes, I almost felt like a global pandemic wasn’t happening)....

aa woman blowing her nose next to an image of Mango-Ginger Smoothie Credit: Blaine Moats, Adobe Stock / Tetiana We can all agree that being sick is no fun. Undesirable symptoms, from a sore throat to a runny nose, are downright uncomfortable and can make it difficult to eat. However, when you’re sick it’s important to get plenty of nutrients to help your body to heal. While soup might be the number one meal you crave when you’re sick, our favorite snack for when you’re feeling under the weather is this Mango-Ginger Smoothie....

What you eat can make a big difference in either stopping inflammation or encouraging it. Some inflammation is natural and not a negative thing (think: your body’s immune response to fighting off a cold). But inflammation that’s caused from a diet too high in inflammatory foods (think: added sugar), plus poor lifestyle choices for an extended period of time (like smoking), can turn problematic and up your risk for chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and more....

hand holding several precariously stacked breakfast sandwiches Credit: Getty Images Breakfast is important—it fuels your morning and may help keep your hunger in check so you don’t overdo it at lunch. But mornings can be hectic and you may not always have the extra time to spend whipping up a breakfast to take on the go. When you’re strapped for time and need a satisfying breakfast on the run, a fast-food breakfast sandwich can be oh-so-tasty and convenient....

aromatherapy shower tablets We’re all at home more than usual right now. And given everything that’s going on in the world (ahem, coronavirus), we’re all holding on to a lot more stress in our bodies. Stress is a normal part of life (especially right now, since our daily routines have all shifted in some way), but if left unchecked it can harm our health. That’s why—even in these crazy times—we need to make room for self-care and relaxation....

Cape gooseberries Credit: Getty Images These little orange orbs are popping up around grocery stores right now. If you’re not familiar with cape gooseberries (also called goldenberries), read on to see if they’re worth trying. What Are Cape Gooseberries? Cape gooseberries —sometimes called “goldenberries”—are small fruits that are about the size of a grape, perfectly round and are opaque orange in color. They’re part of the nightshade family, which also includes tomatoes, eggplants and tomatillos....