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Skipping the Salt for a Low Sodium Diet: Using Herbs to Flavor Your Food

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In case you haven’t heard, having a low sodium diet is the way to go. Too much salt in your diet is definitely a bad thing. From increased blood pressure to diabetes, even stroke, consuming more than the newly recommended 1,500 mg per day…
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8 Miso Soup Recipes that Feel Like Healing in a Bowl

If you thought miso soup was a dish you can only enjoy at a Japanese restaurant then good news: you were wrong! You can actually make this dish at home, and it's not nearly as difficult as you might think. If you haven't cooked with miso before,…
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Perfect For Potluck: The Homesick Texan Lisa Fain's Chicken Spaghetti Casserole

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Creamy chicken spaghetti casserole becomes even more irresistible when you add a Tex-Mex spin. Lisa Fain, the face behind the popular Homesick Texan blog and cookbooks shares her Chicken Spaghetti recipe that’s perfect for potlucks. But…
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Pears Please: 10 Pear Recipe Ideas to Get Into Now

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Don't underestimate the power of a good pear recipe. Pears are one of the few fruits that we could eat every day, pretty much year round. They’re not always in season so the sweetness ebbs and flows, and sure, we occasionally get a mealy…
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Italian Food 101: 10 Pasta Dishes that Represent the Different Regions

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UPDATED August 1st, 2016 Many of us think of Italian food as an all-encompassing description of the country's cuisine. In fact, Italy has 20 distinct regions with their own signature pasta dishes, sauces and flavors. Though Italy is a small…
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A Whole Grain Foods Breakfast as Porcupine Meatballs

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There’s nothing more comforting than to start off your day with a bowl of your favorite cereal, as the healthy ones are usually filled with great sources of whole grain foods. Well there’s another way you can put that box to use: crunchy…
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Mariner Meals: 10 Seafood Soup Recipes to Salute Right Now

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One fish, two fish, red fish, stew fish. Wait, no, that's not right. Sorry, we have seafood soup on the brain, and you can't really blame us. It's cold outside, it's not ending any time soon (damn you Punxsutawney Phil…) and we all need…
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Vegging Out in the Cold: 10 Winter Salad Ideas that Keep Things Cozy

We’re cold. For real. Around this time every year we’re pretty much over the snow and the wind and the draft from our decades-old windows and we know you get that way too sometimes. To keep warm, we fill our bowls with soups and stews…
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The Comfort Files: 15 Ideas for an Awesome Grilled Cheese Sandwich

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Humans have combined bread with cheese for centuries. When exactly it became grilled and gooey, we don’t know. Curiously, it is said that when the first grilled cheese sandwich appeared in the U.S. in the 1920s, it was prepared open-faced…