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Try this healthy one-pan meal for a balanced weeknight dinner. These unstuffed egg rolls have all the delicious fillings of your favorite takeout egg roll without the wrapper!

Unstuffed Egg Rolls in a Bowl

Unstuffed egg rolls in a bowl displayed in white bowl on white marble counter. Displayed with sriracha, green onions and chopsticks. Sprinkled with sesame seeds.

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This spicy chickpea mash is easy, tasty and loaded with fiber. Try as a sandwich, wrap or dip and discover your new healthy lunchtime staple.

Spicy Chickpea Mash

Open faced sandwich with chickpea salad sandwich mixture and sliced cucumbers, sitting directly on white marble countertop

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This pesto chicken quinoa bowl is my easy weeknight take on sweetgreen’s pesto chicken parm. It uses pre-cooked quinoa, rotisserie chicken and a 5-minute creamy pesto vinaigrette for a flavorful lunch or dinner that comes together in minutes.

Easy Pesto Chicken Quinoa Bowl

White bowl with cooked quinoa, roasted broccoli, cooked chicken, baby spinach and green salad dressing, drizzled with bright red buffalo sauce.

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This nacho salad recipe with creamy salsa dressing is a fun upgrade to the usual taco salad. With gooey cheese, satisfying black beans and the most delicious toppings, this fresh and tasty salad will become your new favorite lunch. Say hello to taco salad’s cooler, hotter older sister: nacho salad. I know they sound identical, […]

Easy Nacho Salad with Creamy Salsa Dressing

White bowl with salad that includes lettuce, ground beef, black beans, tortilla chips, melted cheese, jalapeno slices, lime wedge, and salad dressing.

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This rotisserie chicken salad is a delicious high protein lunch option. Packed with rotisserie chicken, celery, apple, almonds, mayonnaise, greek yogurt and more, this healthy recipe works well as a sandwich, wrap, or dip with crackers and veggies.  If nothing else, I am a salad girl. Not like ‘I love lettuce’ salads. Although those kinds […]

The Best Rotisserie Chicken Salad Recipe

Chicken salad mixture in a white bowl with seed crackers, garnished with lemon, green onion and parsley.

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Need an easy, protein-packed breakfast for busy weekday mornings? This 3-ingredient air fryer frittata with broccoli and cheddar is a quick and healthy way to enjoy eggs. You might already know that I’m obsessed with my air fryer.  It’s quick. Somehow, it cooks everything perfectly. And I’m constantly looking for new foods to shove in […]

Easy Air Fryer Frittata (3-Ingredients)

frittata with broccoli and cheddar cheese on a white plate on a light grey marble background

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