Best Healthy Recipes Website

Cooking healthy can be a challenge for many seniors. Part of the struggle is finding good recipes that are easy to fix and fit into your healthy eating plan, whatever that may be. Whether you need low carb, sugar free, gluten-free or just something that consists of eating clean, unprocessed foods, we’ve got a roundup of the best websites that offer healthy recipes. Here are our favorites:

The Food Network has a whole section of healthy recipes on their website. They include special collections of recipes, like Weeknight Dinners and Meals You Can Fix in Under an Hour. Additionally, the Food Network has sections for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and different diets like low-carb and vegetarian.

Clean Eating Magazine has a large collection of recipes on their website that uses only whole, unprocessed foods. They have unique collections of recipes like “Classics Made Clean.” They also have quick recipes and budget-friendly recipes. Clean Eating Magazine also has sections for diets like gluten-free and vegetarian.

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Cooking Light provides recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as different diets. The website also has articles for more specific collections, like chili recipes, slow-cooker recipes, and then recipes that are vegan, gluten-free, or vegetarian.

Food blog Delish has a section of healthy recipes that includes articles with lists of recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Most of the Delish website is made of blog posts, but their healthy recipe section provides dozens of different recipes for all meals and dietary considerations.

Similar to Clean Eating Magazine, Eating Well provides articles and recipes using healthy foods. Eating Well’s collection of recipes is sorted by breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as the kind of food. You can browse through their sections of smoothies, breads, salads, casseroles, and different diets like diabetes-friendly, dairy-free and gluten-free.

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Popular magazine Good Housekeeping has their own collection of recipes on their website, including separate sections for quick & easy recipes, and healthy recipes. The healthy recipe section on Good Housekeeping has both recipes and articles that provide lists of recipes for different meals and special occasions.

Very Well Fit, not only has an incredible database of healthy recipes, but it also enables you to search recipes by medical conditions, including recipes designed with the best nutrients for conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Heartburn, and Cancer, just to name a few. It also has specific recipes for those with a wide range of food allergies.

The Food Hub is sponsored by the American Diabetes Association. Filled with recipes that are safe and recommended for anyone with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, this website also gives you a variety of search options, ability to save your favorite recipes, and an easy way to compile your grocery shopping list to keep you on track.

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The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has their own healthy eating website with plenty of recipes for all cultures and diets. They provide healthier recipes for specific cultures, like “Healthy Latino Recipes” and “Home Cooking African American Style, ” as well as recipes based on the type of food or meal. You can browse based on the kind of meat you’re cooking, lunch and dinner recipes, snacks and different kinds of meals like pasta and vegetables.

Many recipes found on these websites are sized for larger families. But don’t let that scare you if you’re only cooking for one or two. Simply make the recipe and save the leftovers, freezing extra portions so you can enjoy them at a later date. Bon Apetit!One way to optimize your nutrition this year is to focus on eating meals at home more often. I’m not demonizing restaraunt dining (Shout out to all of my hometown favorites who do  local and fresh farm foods)! But for many people, eating out usually means more fat, more sodium, and bigger portions.

This week, the Healthy Eats challenge was to eat at home more often. While I did splurge for this ugly but oh-so-delicious sub I’ve raved about before, I do normally eat at home. I always hear one major hurdle to en casa dining:” What do I make?!” Many of us horde cookbooks, but they can end up as end tables instead of dinner inspiration.

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Healthy Aperture: This food gallery is all about what’s healthy online. Created and maintained by two RDs, they select submitted healthy recipes and photos

Pinterest: Lock me up. I’m addicted to pinterest. It’s recipe and food photography heaven! Just click the food and beverage category to browse things users have ‘pinned’ on an inspiration board. Have something specific in mind? Use the search bar to look for those vegetarian tacos. You can also use Pinterest as a ‘cook later’ file for all of your ideas!

Foodily: This is a recipe aggregator that pulls from a variety of other websites. What I appreciate are the ‘at a glance’ results that show ingredients, time, and ratings side by side. Small buttons also indicate nutrition notes like ‘low fat’ or ‘high fiber’.  Need a recipe without an allergen? Search any thing and pick ‘without’ to exclude results with dairy, nuts, gluten, etc…

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Recipe Redux: While this isn’t a website, you’ll love the frequent updates in this monthly blog challenge by RDs. Each month we get a food or theme challenge and bloggers work to boost the health rating of the recipe. We’ve done healthy breakfast, pumpkin, whole grains, and more! Look for the monthly challenge with all participants’ links on the blog and see previous ones here.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has their own healthy eating website with plenty of recipes for all cultures and diets. They provide healthier recipes for specific cultures, like “Healthy Latino Recipes” and “Home Cooking African American Style, ” as well as recipes based on the type of food or meal. You can browse based on the kind of meat you’re cooking, lunch and dinner recipes, snacks and different kinds of meals like pasta and vegetables.

Many recipes found on these websites are sized for larger families. But don’t let that scare you if you’re only cooking for one or two. Simply make the recipe and save the leftovers, freezing extra portions so you can enjoy them at a later date. Bon Apetit!One way to optimize your nutrition this year is to focus on eating meals at home more often. I’m not demonizing restaraunt dining (Shout out to all of my hometown favorites who do  local and fresh farm foods)! But for many people, eating out usually means more fat, more sodium, and bigger portions.

This week, the Healthy Eats challenge was to eat at home more often. While I did splurge for this ugly but oh-so-delicious sub I’ve raved about before, I do normally eat at home. I always hear one major hurdle to en casa dining:” What do I make?!” Many of us horde cookbooks, but they can end up as end tables instead of dinner inspiration.

Healthy Recipes For Cancer Patients Ebook

Healthy Aperture: This food gallery is all about what’s healthy online. Created and maintained by two RDs, they select submitted healthy recipes and photos

Pinterest: Lock me up. I’m addicted to pinterest. It’s recipe and food photography heaven! Just click the food and beverage category to browse things users have ‘pinned’ on an inspiration board. Have something specific in mind? Use the search bar to look for those vegetarian tacos. You can also use Pinterest as a ‘cook later’ file for all of your ideas!

Foodily: This is a recipe aggregator that pulls from a variety of other websites. What I appreciate are the ‘at a glance’ results that show ingredients, time, and ratings side by side. Small buttons also indicate nutrition notes like ‘low fat’ or ‘high fiber’.  Need a recipe without an allergen? Search any thing and pick ‘without’ to exclude results with dairy, nuts, gluten, etc…

Healthy Meal Prep Ideas

Recipe Redux: While this isn’t a website, you’ll love the frequent updates in this monthly blog challenge by RDs. Each month we get a food or theme challenge and bloggers work to boost the health rating of the recipe. We’ve done healthy breakfast, pumpkin, whole grains, and more! Look for the monthly challenge with all participants’ links on the blog and see previous ones here.

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