It’s National Nutrition Month! Savor the Flavor of GGL Recipes!

 

National Nutrition Month Savor Flavor Recipes Beth Rosen, RD

Happy National Nutrition Month!  Every March, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics celebrates the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.  This year’s theme is “Savor the flavor of eating right.”  Eating right means choosing an eating plan that promotes your best health, but also includes taking the time to enjoy the foods that nourishes you.  There are a number of ways to “savor the flavor”: Enjoy your food by eating mindfully; paying attention to choosing foods that energize you and make you feel good.  Become curious of new flavors and try new foods and recipes.  Find the fun in eating again by removing negative thoughts about food and eating all food in moderation.

Since I started blogging, I have been posting recipes that I love (and I hope you love too!)  So, in honor of National Nutrition Month, I thought I would highlight a number of my favorites!

Favorite Slow Cooker Recipe:

By far, I make this Three Bean Chicken Chili more often than any other slow cooker recipe.  It yields enough for leftovers that can be frozen and served on another night.

Hot in the pot.

Three Bean Chicken Chili hot in the pot.

Favorite Snack Recipe:

Have you tried my Energy Bites?  They are quick and easy to make and require no cooking!  They are also a perfect snack for those following a gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan or low FODMAP diet.

Yummy, customizable Energy Bites.

Yummy, customizable Energy Bites.

Kid Favorite Recipe:

I teach a nutrition program at the local Boys and Girls club and making fruit and veggie smoothies is their favorite recipe/activity session.  We made a strawberry smoothie and a green smoothie (using spinach as our green ingredient) and the kids told me that they taught their parents how to make both of them at home.  That makes me happy!

easy smoothie recipe kids Beth Rosen, RD

Favorite Allergy-Free Recipe:

Whenever I am invited to a pot luck meal, I always bring Sweet Mediterranean Quinoa along.  It has quinoa – which is a protein source while also being a gluten-free grain – it’s vegetarian, and contains not one of the top 8 allergens, so it is safe for all to eat!

Favorite Sneaky Vegetable Vegetable Recipe:

I am always looking for gluten free-foods that my family can enjoy with me, but pasta has been a tough one.  My Asian Peanut Noodle Salad contains flat rice noodles (GF!) but also contains another “pasta”; zucchini noodles! My picky eater even eats it!

Asian Peanut Noodle Salad. Yum!

Asian Peanut Noodle Salad. Yum!

Favorite Side Dish Recipe:

My Ginger Snow Peas are the easiest side dish to throw together, and a great starter vegetable for non-veggie eaters.  They have a little bit of spice and a whole lot of crunch.  The best part, is there is very little prep to get this dish to the table fast!

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Ginger snow peas

Pinterest Favorite Recipe:

I pin all of my recipes to my Pinterest page, and the pins that get the most repins aren’t the ones I would have thought would be enjoyed by so many people.  The Roasted Grape Tomato Sauce recipe that I developed when I had a bumper crop a few summers ago continues to be viewed and repinned on a daily basis.  Have you tried it?

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Roasted Grape Tomato Sauce – only five ingredients!

Enjoy National Nutrition Month and be sure to take time and savor the flavor of your favorite foods and recipes, and maybe try one or two of mine!

 

 

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Beth Rosen

Eating Attitudes™ & Gut Expert

Beth Rosen, MS, RD, CDN is a Registered Dietitian and owner of Beth Rosen Nutrition. She practices a non-diet philosophy and is a Health at Every Size" practitioner. Her goal is to end the pain of diet culture, one person at a time. Beth's techniques and programs empower chronic dieters, and those who consider themselves emotional and /or stress eaters, to ditch the vicious cycle of dieting, eat fearlessly by removing Food and diet rules, and mend their relationship with food and their bodies. Beth's works face-to-face with clients in Southbury, CT, and virtually with clients, worldwide.

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