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Our Top 10 Best Healthy Recipes of 2014

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January 17, 2015

#1 ALMOND FUDGE

This recipe comes from my latest cookbook Whole Food American Favorites. It includes 40 whole food vegan desserts like this one. It’s perfect for your holiday party!

#2 TRADITIONAL SWEET POTATO PIE

This traditional sweet potato pie completes any holiday, but it’s good all year round.

#3 SPINACH POTATO SALAD

Top 10 healthy recipes, spinach potato salad — McKoy, Kirk –– – LOS ANGELES, CA., CA. – SEPT. 15, 2009: SOS: Bacon potato salad. (Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times)

Not only is this summer side dish something to look at, it’s a treat for the taste buds, too. The medley of textures and garden-fresh ingredients perfectly compliment one another for a delightfully different potato salad.

#4 KALE CAKE WITH BLUEBERRY FROSTING

That’s right. Yes, we did. A kale cake! And it is great. The best response we have heard was a big “WOW” from a carnivore! Give it a go with Lime Frosting; we love it with Blueberry Frosting, Serve with Banana Soft Serve for the final wow!
Note from Barbara: I am surprised how quick and easy this cake is to make. All my Demo Dinner attendees LOVED it!

#5 PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKES

I found this recipe when looking for peanut butter uses (in small quantities). Voilà! These pancakes come out fluffy and with a delicious hint of peanut butter. I like to add at least a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon (helps with blood pressure as well as adds great flavor). They make great gluten-free “bread” for my sandwiches, of which I keep several frozen all the time.

#6 BREAKFAST TOFU SCRAMBLE

Yes! Soy is healthy (organic, non GMO). This tofu scramble is quick and easy to make and a great way to introduce tofu as a meat alternate and a good source of protein and calcium! Enjoy it with any meal.

#7 LEMON GINGER BLAST

A great post Holiday tonic and anytime healthy treat.

#8 GLUTEN-FREE BUCKWHEAT PANCAKES

I found this recipe when looking for peanut butter uses (in small quantities). Voilà! These pancakes come out fluffy and with a delicious hint of peanut butter. I like to add at least a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon (helps with blood pressure as well as adds great flavor). They make great gluten-free “bread” for my sandwiches, of which I keep several frozen all the time.

#9 HOLIDAY NOG WITH FRESH NUTMEG

After trying many recipes, making several versions of each I finally came up with the “best of” that tastes like the eggnog I used to wait to drink for the Holidays – only then because it was so “unhealthy and fattening”. Now I don’t worry about it that much knowing that there isn’t any dairy, the sugar is as natural as you can get “dates”, the spices are high in antioxidants, and using “lite” coconut milk and coconut water make this a much healthier Holiday Drink!

#10 HOLIDAY LENTIL LOAF

This recipe comes from my cookbook, “Whole Food Goodness.” It makes a wonderful main dish for your next holiday feast. One of my cooking class students made this loaf a couple of weeks ago, and this is what she had to say: “I made your Holiday Lentil Loaf, and it was one of the best things my husband and I have eaten that is vegan. It reminded us of the best part of Thanksgiving, which is the stuffing.”

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