7 Day Healthy Meal Plan (Aug 3-9)

A free 7-day, flexible weight loss meal plan including breakfast, lunch and dinner and a shopping list. All recipes include calories and updated WW Smart Points.

7-Day Healthy Meal Plan

Who loves salads? I do, I do! What are some of you favorite go to salads? Some of mine include my  Cobb Salad In a Jar With Buttermilk Ranch, Spiralized Carrot Salad with Lemon and Dijon and the Spiralized Greek Cucumber Salad with Lemon and Feta. Leave a comment and tell me yours!
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Easy Blueberry Buttermilk Cake

This light and Easy Blueberry Buttermilk Cake loaded with fresh, juicy blueberries in a lightly sweetened, moist buttermilk cake is ideal for summer.

Easy Blueberry Buttermilk Cake

I know many of my readers prefer baking from scratch over using boxed mixes, so I love to test new recipes and share the very best with you. This Blueberry Buttermilk Cake is one of the winners. Blueberries are one of my favorite additions to any dessert. A few other blueberry recipes I enjoy are Blueberry Banana Bread, Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins (which are also gluten-free and dairy-free), Blueberry Scones, and Blueberry Peach Crisp.

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9 Ways to Make Pesto Straight from the Garden

If your garden is bursting with fresh herbs and vegetables, now is the time to make ALL THE PESTO! Don’t limit yourself to basil pesto. Try mint, parsley, arugula, kale and even carrot top pesto. It freezes beautifully so you can enjoy your garden bounty all year long.

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Editors’ Picks: Pizza-Making Supplies

Who needs delivery? You can make the best pizza at home with a solid recipe and the proper tools, like a pizza peel, pizza stone, and more! Here's what we recommend.

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Easy Sautéed Zucchini

This sautéed zucchini with dill is such a simple and easy side dish for summer meals. Six ingredients, 15 minutes, and it's ready. Great on its own, or serve with grilled chicken or fish.

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Greek Turkey Burgers

These Greek Turkey Burgers, mixed with Kalamata olives, feta, and spinach,combine all my favorite Greek flavors and can be served with or without the bun.

Greek Turkey Burgers

These Greek Turkey Burgers are so flavorful, and I love that they can be served two different ways. Serve them on a toasted whole wheat bun with butter lettuce, cucumber slices, thin red onion slices, sliced tomato, and a little Greek yogurt or as a main dish without the bread served with rice, tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onion on the side. For some other turkey burger recipes, try my Naked Greek Feta-Zucchini Turkey Burgers or Turkey Burgers with Zucchini.

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Ingredient Spotlight: Tahini

Tahini isn't just for hummus! Add this creamy, slightly nutty, rich ingredient made from sesame seeds to granola and brownies or make a dressing, marinade, or sauce for roasted vegetables, salad, and grilled meats.

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Easy Cucumber Salad

Use up the bounty of summer with this refreshing and crispy salad with cucumbers, rice vinegar, salt, pepper, and chopped fresh dill or basil.

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Tuscan Chicken Pasta Skillet

This quick and easy Tuscan Chicken Pasta Skillet is a one-pot noodle dish made with simple, yet flavorful ingredients. Marinated chicken breast is tossed with tender spaghetti, tomatoes, artichokes, olives, freshly grated Parmesan cheese, and herbs. It’s the perfect easy weekday meal!

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Crustless Quiche Lorraine

This easy Crustless Quiche Lorraine with bacon and Gruyere is a lighter take on the classic, made lighter without the crust.

Crustless Quiche Lorraine

I love making crustless quiche for weekend brunches. They are so simple to make. Plus, since there’s no crust, not only is it healthier, but it’s also quicker to prepare. You can mix all the ingredients the night before so it’s ready to bake when you wake up. This Quiche Lorraine is made with Bacon and Gruyere, but you can also try my Ham and Cheese Crustless Quiche, Crustless Broccoli and Cheese Quiche, or if you want the crust this Spinach Ricotta Tomato Quiche is delicious.

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Chewy Tahini Blondies

If you're a fan of blondies, and you should be, look no further than these chewy, slightly nutty, and utterly indulgent blondies made with tahini. The recipe was created by Adeena Sussman, for her cookbook Sababa.

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Zucchini Bread

Zucchini bread is a perennial favorite and what to make when the gardens are overflowing with this summer veggie. This easy bread is tender and gently spiced.

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Asian Beef Lettuce Wraps

Try this easy Asian-inspired take on lettuce wraps with grilled beef, crisp vegetables, and fresh herbs. The spicy marinade of sriracha, ginger, lime, and fish sauce doubles as a dipping sauce!

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Flourless Chocolate Zucchini Brownies

These Flourless Zucchini Brownies are so fudgy and rich, loaded with chocolate chips plus zucchini which makes them extra moist!

Flourless Zucchini Brownies

Occasionally I share lightened up dessert recipes here. Making desserts light is a challenge, so when it works I’m thrilled! These brownies are so incredibly rich and fudgy you won’t believe there’s no oil or butter added. And, since they are made with ground almond meal instead of flour, they also happen to be gluten-free. For some more lightened brownie recipes, try my PB2 Flourless Chocolate Brownies and Flourless Black Bean Brownies.

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5 Quick, Easy, and Delicious Summer Dinner Recipes

This week's meal plan is full of clever ways to squeeze the most out of every meal. Ideas on how to turn last night’s dinner into today’s breakfast, multiple uses for a tasty marinade, and ways to use up extra Tuna Patties. Efficient and delicious!

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7 Day Healthy Meal Plan (July 27-Aug 2)

A free 7-day, flexible weight loss meal plan including breakfast, lunch and dinner and a shopping list. All recipes include calories and updated WW Smart Points.

7-Day Healthy Meal Plan

If you are a zucchini lover or gardener who has an abundance ready to pick–you will LOVE this weeks meal plan!  (we are talking 4 and a half pounds!) Let me know which is your favorite!
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Sourdough Biscuits

Use up your “discarded” starter in these EPIC biscuits! With that sourdough tang, these biscuits are so flaky, so buttery + so so good.

With the recent pandemic, everyone started baking bread, particularly sourdough – hence the yeast shortage (right behind toilet paper and Purell, of course).

I, myself, tried my hand at sourdough. I was not successful. Hence my weekly no knead bread baking.

But I did have a ton of discarded sourdough. So I made some pancakes. Which were of course, amazing. And then I made some biscuits. And it was legit NEXT LEVEL EPIC.

The added sourdough tang knocks these biscuits right out of the park. Not to mention, the ultra flaky, light and fluffiness these biscuits encompass.

Just be sure to serve them super warm with all the melted butter. And this works as an appetizer, snack or dinner.

I prefer to have them for dinner though.

Sourdough Biscuits

Yield: 8-10 biscuits

prep time: 30 minutes

cook time: 20 minutes

total time: 50 minutes

Use up your “discarded” starter in these EPIC biscuits! With that sourdough tang, these biscuits are so flaky, so buttery + so so good.

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Sourdough Biscuits

30 minutes20 minutes

Chungah Rhee

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, frozen
• 1 cup active sourdough starter
• 1/2 cup buttermilk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
3. Grate butter using the large holes of a box grater. Stir into the flour mixture.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk together sourdough starter and buttermilk. Add to the flour mixture and stir using a rubber spatula until a soft dough forms.
5. Working on a lightly floured surface, knead the dough 2-3 times until it comes together. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a 1 1/2-inch thick rectangle. Cut out 8-10 rounds using a 2-inch biscuit or cookie cutter.
6. Place biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Place into oven and bake for 14-18 minutes, or until golden brown.
7. Serve warm.

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How to Make Easy Refrigerator Pickles

Homemade refrigerator pickles are so easy to make yourself! No canning necessary. They're ready in about 24 hours. Great for burgers, sandwiches, and snacking all summer long.

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Basic Pickling Spice Blend

Make your own pickling spice blend! Mustard seed, black peppercorns, and cinnamon (or allspice!) are essential. The rest are mix-and-match. Lasts for up to a year and makes enough for several batches.

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Aperol Spritz

The effervescent Aperol Spritz is here for your summer enjoyment! Made with Aperol, Prosecco, and a splash of soda water, this sparkling cocktail can be enjoyed before dinner, or anytime!

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Peach Cobbler

Peach Cobbler is a summer favorite — and so EASY! Just mix together fresh peaches and add a simple cobbler topping. Bake and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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9 Picks to Spruce Up Your Outdoor Dining Space

Enhance your outdoor dining space with a few fun and versatile updates.

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Foil Packet Spice Rubbed Fish with Watermelon Salsa

Spice Rubbed Fish is zesty and so flavorful, the refreshing watermelon salsa is the perfect compliment. Cooked in foil on the grill or the oven!

Foil Packet Fish with Watermelon Salsa

You can use any fish fillet to make this! Last week I made it with halibut, this week I tried it with salmon. I bet shrimp would also be great, use your favorite! This dish is healthy, low-carb, gluten-free and ready under 30 minutes!

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Lemon Herb Pasta Salad with Marinated Chickpeas

This recipe is sponsored by DeLallo

Consider this your weekly (daily?) reminder that really delicious food does not need to be complicated.

The basics – garlic, lemon, herbs, olive oil – are prepared to deliver. They are usually somewhere in the pantry or fridge, and they are always going to serve us well.

I give you Exhibit A: The Lemon Herb Pasta Salad with Marinated Chickpeas which involves deliciously squishy pasta coated in a silky “sauce” of olive oil and lemon juice, tossed with chickpeas that have been soaking in a flavor bath of fresh garlic and herbs and such, and finished with more herbs and lots of salt and pepper and some Parmesan cheese. Is it good warm? Is it good cold? Is it good as a side or a main or a… snack? The answer to all of the above is Y-E-S.

This is all you need:

• Chewy, tender, appropriately noodley pasta
• Hearty little chickpeas
• Olive oil
• Lemon juice
• Basil and parsley
• GARRRRLIC
• Salt and pepper
• Parmesan cheese

Thank you for understanding the amount of effort I’m prepared to give right now (minimal) and the delicious results I am expecting in return (major).

This served me so right on both levels.

“Marinated chickpeas” is how you make it FEEL fancy, but all it really is is giving a shot of big garlic / lemon / herb flavor into the whole thing with very little effort.

First, grab your pantry ingredients. DeLallo all the way.

We’re working with fewer ingredients here, so QUALITY MATTERS! Phenomenally textured authentic Italian pasta, good solid olive oil that actually, um, tastes like olive oil, and a can of never-fails-you chickpeas, and you’re basically halfway there.

The pasta gets cooked.

The chickpeas get… marinated. Overnight would be ideal, but lol. If you are short on time, I promise your mouth will still be happy with the work that’s been done. Just let the chickpeas hang out with all their flavors while you prep the rest. If you are bold, give them a little mashing with a fork so they soak up some extra flavor.

Toss with herbs and cheese and salt and pepper and lemon zest and the other good things you like….

And YOU’RE EATING THIS YUMMY LUNCH.

Or second lunch. Or bedtime snack.

Lemon Herb Pasta Salad with Marinated Chickpeas – it is there for you this week. THERE. FOR. YOU.

Lemon Herb Pasta Salad with Marinated Chickpeas

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• Author: Lindsay
• Prep Time: 30 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 45 minutes
• Yield: 4 servings

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A super fresh, super summery Lemon Herb Pasta Salad! Packed with tangy marinated chickpeas, chewy pasta, lots of herbs and garlic, lemon juice and olive oil, and a handful of parmesan to top it off.

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Ingredients

Marinated Chickpeas

• 1 14 ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed (DeLallo)
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, grated or crushed into a paste
• a generous squeeze of lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon salt

Pasta

• 8 ounces farfalle pasta (DeLallo)
• 1/4 cup olive oil (as needed) (DeLallo)
• juice and zest of one lemon
• 1/2 cup finely chopped parsley and basil
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese

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Instructions

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1. Prepare marinated chickpeas by combining everything together in a shallow bowl. For the best flavor, allow this to marinate for 8 hours or overnight. But hey, if you don’t have the time, just let it all hang out while you prep the rest of the pasta. It’s all good.
   
2. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain. While pasta is hot, toss with marinated chickpeas and allow to cool slightly.
   
3. Add more olive oil (as needed). Add lemon juice and zest and herbs. Season with salt and pepper. Add in Parmesan cheese last so it doesn’t completely melt. Serve warm, cold, or room temp with extra lemon, Parmesan, and herbs as needed!
   

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• Category: Lunch
• Method: Toss
• Cuisine: American

Keywords: pasta salad, lemon herb, chickpeas, marinated chickpeas, DeLallo, summer salad, herb salad

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