Tag: healthy swaps

Chocolate Dipped Pineapple “Pops”

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date June 9, 2021
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Breaking news – pineapple & chocolate is the combo you have been missing in your life… and you only need two ingredients!

Tags chocolate dipped, dessert, easy, frozen fruit, Hawaii, healthy dessert, healthy swaps, pineapple, summer, two ingredients, under 10 ingredients, under 5 ingredients

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Homemade Spicy Fusilli (Jon & Vinny’s Inspired)

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date January 23, 2021
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A healthy twist on a classic LA dish— swaps out heavy cream and butter for Greek yogurt and olive oil… but don’t worry, you still get to light your sauce on fire!

Tags Basil, cooking with alcohol, entertaining, healthy swap, healthy swaps, homemade remake, italian, Jon & Vinny's, pasta, pastafarian, pastas, vodka sauce, weekend project, wow factor

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Dark Chocolate Chunk Olive Oil Cookies

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date December 24, 2020
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Mediterranean diet – cookie edition. Swap out that butter for some olive oil and let’s get baking!

Tags baking, chocolate chip cookies, cookie, cookies, dark chocolate, dessert, healthy swaps, olive oil

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Healthier Gingerbread Loaf

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date December 4, 2020
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A little gingerbread holiday cheer. This might not be quite a healthy food, BUT it has greek yogurt & avo oil instead of butter and white whole wheat flour so it’s a step in the healthier direction while still being delicious 🙂

Tags Christmas, christmas recipes, gingerbread, greek yogurt, greek yogurt baking, healthier dessert, healthy swaps, holidays, loaf, tree decorating, winter

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Chocolate Chip Greek Yogurt Pumpkin Bread

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date November 5, 2020
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Pumpkin bread gets a healthy face lift with the addition of Greek yogurt to cut the butter, without sacrificing any of the deliciousness!

Tags autumn, baked goods, baking, cake, chocolate, fall, greek yogurt, Halloween, healthy baking, healthy swaps, loaf, pumpkin, pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice

Dressings and Marinades Sides and Snacks

5 Min Homemade “Granch” Dressing

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date September 13, 2020
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Looking for a healthy but yummy way to get you to start snacking on more veggies? Enter: 5 min homemade
“granch!”

Tags dill, dip, dressing, granch, greek yogurt, greek yogurt week, green onion, healthy swap, healthy swaps, snack

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Honey Drenched Greek Yogurt Bark

Post author By The Carmel Kama'aina
Post date September 13, 2020
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I have developed quite the ice cream addiction in quarantine. Not that I didn’t like ice cream before, but I thought of it as a fun treat I’d get out at an ice cream shop. Now, if I’d have my way, I’d buy a pint with every grocery store run so that I could have […]