Hi friends! Matt and I are still in Charleston right now (you can see our adventures over on Instagram), so I thought today would be a good day to share a round up of some of my best recipes and health/nutrition tips all in one post. For those of you looking to get healthier this year, I hope you find this round up of my best content from over the years helpful! And see also: Simple Tweaks for a Healthier Life, Tips for a Healthy New Year and How to Set a Successful New Year’s Resolution.
My Absolute Favorite Easy, Healthy Recipes to try:
- Perfect Microwave Banana Oatmeal
- 5-Minute No Bake Peanut Butter Granola Bars (vegan, gluten free if you use GF certified oats)
- Almond Butter Banana Breakfast Bars (vegan)
- Almond Encrusted Tilapia
- Chunky Turkey & Vegetable Soup
- Corn Flake Encrusted Chicken Fingers (gluten free)
- Creamy Mexican Chicken Chili Soup (gluten free)
- Dark Chocolate Quinoa Bars (gluten free)
- Greek Lamb Burgers (gluten free without bun – can be made with turkey too)
- Healthy Tuna Salad
- High Protein & Flour-Free Breakfast Pancake (gluten free)
- Mexican Lasagna (gluten free if using corn tortillas)
- Nutty Protein Granola Bars (gluten free with GF certified oats)
- Peanut Butter Power Cookies (vegan, gluten free)
- Pesto Baked Salmon with Veggies
- Salty Maple Nut Energy Bites (vegan, gluten free)
- Savory Curry Granola Bars (gluten free)
- Scrambled Egg Muffins
- Sweet Potato & Black Bean Veggie Enchiladas (vegan if omit cheese)
- Sweet Potato Lentil Chili (vegan)
- Tart Cherry Pie Snack Balls (vegan, gluten free)
- Veggie-tastic Minestrone Soup (vegan)
- Zesty Lemon Zucchini Muffins
Food-related tips and round up posts:
- How to pack lunch in 5 minutes flat (and here are more packed lunch ideas)
- How to Eat a Better Breakfast
- How to Make {Microwave} Oatmeal More Tasty, Filling, and Satisfying
- Quick & Healthy Dinner Recipes
- Simple & Healthy Weekday Lunch Ideas
- How to Make a Quick & Healthy Weeknight Dinner
- 10 Healthy On the Go Snack Recipes
- 4 Healthy, Quick, and Portable Breakfast Ideas
General/Nutrition Hot Topic tips:
- How to make time for health when you’re busy
- The Sneaky Thing That Might Be Causing Your Stomach Pain
- What Oils To Use When (e.g. high heat cooking vs. baking vs. salad dressing)
- 10 Immunity-Boosting Foods for Flu and Cold Season
Exercise/Running tips:
- How to Love Exercise (or at least not hate it)
- How to Eat for Running: Top 5 Nutrition Mistakes Made by Runners
Interested in learning more about sports nutrition, fueling right without driving yourself crazy, and getting additional sport-specific recipes? Check out my Nutrition for Runners Program. It also includes running training plans, as I co-authored it with a running coach!
Not ready to commit to purchasing a program but interested in learning more about how to fuel right for your workouts? Check out my Sport Nutrition Myth Busting Q&A, which is free to download. It would be perfect to listen to on your next long run! My Nutrition for Runners co-author Jason and I recorded it together, and we answer and discuss a lot of the typical hot topic running nutrition questions, like:
- How can I eat enough to fuel my runs but still maintain my goal weight?
- What’s the best way to refuel after a tough workout, especially if I have no appetite?
- The top myths about calorie counting, scoring, and tracking percentages
For those of you training for spring races, here are my previous plans/tips:
- My full marathon training plan, plus injury prevention & nutrition tips
- My 2nd half marathon training plan
- My 1st half marathon training plan
- 10 miler training plan
- First full marathon training reflections
- What have you guys done already this new year towards improving your health or wellness in a sustainable, non-extreme way? Any specific tips posts or topics you’d like to see me write about this year?
Found your website by accident today while doing a google search for “egg muffins”. Nice site, some great tips on your site. I enjoyed reading a bunch of your past posts especially the ones on running.
Great — thanks for stopping by!
So fun to see your Charleston adventures on Instagram! Love that city. I think one improvement I’ve tried to make is to be more mindful about my eating–sometimes I find myself mindlessly snacking, especially when I’m training, even though I’m already full. And I’m definitely trying to be more aware of how much sugar I consume–it’s hidden in so many products!
It definitely is! Being more mindful about everything is a good idea – but especially food! If you’re going to eat something, might as well pay attention/enjoy it, right? :)
I decided to pick one habit to focus on every week, that way my focus isn’t all over the place and I can get really good at that one healthy habit :)
Great idea! :)
I’ve been working to cut out the creamer in my coffee and sugary lattes. A couple posts ago you listed the ingredients in a coffee creamer and it’s really made me think about what I’m putting in my body.
I’d love to see a post about your thoughts on the new Dietary Guidelines and the fact that they’re still recommending low- or non-fat dairy.
I actually talked about that in my previous nutrition myths post — I was not happy to see low/fat free dairy is still being recommended. Ridiculous! https://www.fannetasticfood.com/2016/01/13/7-common-nutrition-myths/
I’d love to find out what you think about intermittent fasting! I feel like some people really benefit from it but it’s definitely not for every one, so I’d like to hear a dietician’s take on it instead of someone who’s selling their diet book. ;-)
Good question! I’m not a fan simply because I think it sets people up for the starve/binge cycle that dieting also encourages. Basically, the best advice is to listen to your body and honor its hunger – not ignore it – or it will backfire later in a big way.
Gotcha! That makes sense, thanks!!
Saw this site on a list of recommended blogs for personal health, so I came over. Lots of great information and recipes here, for people of all ages. Not a runner myself, but the exercise articles are useful. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for stopping by!