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Skyterra Wellness Simple Fruit Crepes

Skyterra Crepes This crepe batter recipe will yield a soft and tender Simple Fruit Crepe. Skyterra’s tip: it is tempting to try and mix your batter until it is completely smooth, but you’ll get a better result if you take the extra step to strain out the large lumps, then allow the batter to rest. This method keeps your crepes light, thin, and soft. The filling is up to you — but we serve it with diced fresh fruit and chopped nuts, and then top with 100% pure maple syrup. A light and clean breakfast crepe ready to be filled with your favorite…
April 1, 2019 |

Pritikin Raspberry Mango Sorbet

Mango Raspberry Sorbet Craving ice cream but don’t want to mess up your weight? This guilt-free all-fruit Raspberry Mango Sorbet is a guest favorite frozen treat at the Pritikin health resort in Miami, but you can whip it up yourself at home!   This sorbet is vibrant, sweet and sour (depending on the berries) and lovely to look at, too.   ABOUT PRITIKIN The Pritikin Eating Plan is proven in more than 100 peer-reviewed studies to have life-saving benefits like lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. Plus, you aren’t losing your mind while losing weight. There’s no calorie counting, no hunger. Just plenty of…
June 1, 2018 |

Pritikin Banana Berry Cottage Cheese Salad

Banana Berry Cottage Cheese Salad Here’s a delicious and super-easy Banana Berry Cottage Cheese Salad that hits the spot just about any time of day, from breakfast to snacks to a nighttime dessert.   The tartness of berries. The creaminess of cottage cheese. The wonderful sweetness of bananas. You get it all in this little gem of a salad! And so easy to make!  Thanks to the award-winning chefs at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Miami. For 40 years, the renowned health resort has helped tens of thousands worldwide adopt healthy lifestyle habits that dramatically reduce cholesterol levels, blood pressure, excess weight, and other heart disease risk…
May 1, 2018 |

No Bake Oatmeal Cookies

No Bake Oatmeal Cookies Recipe These no bake cookies are made easily, and quickly in the microwave, combining oatmeal, peanut butter and cocoa.  We tried this recipe, courtesy of Conagra Brands, with both sugar and Splenda Baking Blend®, to save on additional calories.
January 23, 2018 |

Chocolate Almond Meringue Cookies

Chocolate Almond Meringue Cookies Meringue Cookies are fun to make with children and for cookie trays because they are fairly easy and attractive to look at.  Only patience is required, letting the cookies “bake” in a passive pre-heated oven, with the door closed, as the temperature cools over night.  The appeal is the crispy chewy texture and the low-fat calories.
January 15, 2018 |

Fruity Spa Popsicles

frozen fruit popsicles Taking a cue from nature, Lake Austin Spa has perfected these recipes for healthy spa popsicles to include summertime ingredients of fresh herbs, yogurt, fruit, coffee and avocados. They are simple to make and free of high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors and dyes that are typically found in store bought varieties.
July 8, 2017 |

Ginger Basil Limeade

Ginger Basil Limeade If the heat gets you beat, try this enlivening Ginger Basil Limeade chilled to feel light and bright. Refreshing sour lime mixes with spicy-sweet fresh ginger. Fresh basil cuts through with its light, bright pungent herbal taste. This limeade will clear your mind, stimulate digestion, take care of a gassy stomach and even cool you down.
June 13, 2017 |

Cinnamon Banana Chips

Cinnamon Banana Chips Steer clear of purchased banana chips which are usually coated in sugar (for a fruit already sweet on its own!) and preservatives. Instead, try this simple recipe for Cinnamon Banana Chips. They are great way to satisfy sweet and crunchy cravings at the same time.
June 6, 2017 |

Peanut Butter Ricotta Spread

peanut+butter+and+ricotta+spread Peanuts and Peanut Butter are strongly flavored foods so a little goes a long way in flavoring this spread, which makes use of low fat or fat free ricotta cheese as another protein source. Together, they make a fluffy peanut spread which is terrific on rice cakes or used as a dip for celery sticks and apple slices — and it’s popular with children and teens.
February 25, 2017 |

Quick Egg Drop Soup

Egg Drop Soup Recipe The groaning table of Thanksgiving has been cleared, the leftovers are hopefully gone, and the question what do fix that’s light, flavorful, quick and easy — Quick Egg Drop Soup is the answer.
November 27, 2015 |

Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta

Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta This colorful Asparagus Ricotta Bruschetta appetizer is full of color and has a flavor terrific for brunch, spa party, or light lunch. It can made with soft ricotta cheese, or consider a fat-free herby substitute, like Laughing Cow or Boursin.
August 2, 2015 |

Chilled Avocado Cucumber Soup

Chilled Cucumber Avocado Soup Cucumber Avocado Soup is a quintessential menu item for a Spring spa party, reception, or to take to work when it’s overly warm outside. This version has creamy avocado so you feel just a bit more sated than you would without it.
July 22, 2015 |

No Mayo Deviled Eggs

No Mayonnaise Deviled Eggs This is a simple Mayonnaise Free Deviled Egg recipe from The UltraMetabolism Cookbook 200 Delicious Recipes That Will Turn on Your Fat-Burning DNA. Dr. Mark Hyman, The UltraWellness Center.   A perfect little treat, good protein, good fat, and very satisfying.
July 19, 2015 |

Greens and Herbs Frittata

Spinach Greens and Herbs Frittata Savory, aromatic, and light, the Greens and Herbs Frittata is a rustically nourishing way to begin your spring morning. Transport yourself to a wide, tiled-floor kitchen overlooking lush Italian countryside as you dig into this hearty, yet light dish.
May 24, 2015 |

Miraval Trail Mix Cookies

Miraval Trail Mix Cookies This recipe for a hearty and chewy trail mix cookie is courtesy of Mirval Resort in Arizona and appears in Sweet & Savory, the resort’s newest cookbook. This is a family favorite version of a cookie that is packed with ingredients more nutritious than your average chocolate chip recipe, although it does have some chips, too. Each cook has 2 grams of fat.
April 21, 2015 |

Golden Door Four Citrus Salad with Honey and Sherry

Golden Door Four Citrus Salad with Honey and Sherry This four citrus salad courtesy of Golden Door Spa in Escondido is light, lively, and beautiful. We are fortunate to have citrus year round so we don’t need to rely on specific seasons, but the salad is good any time of year if you wish to substitute a few citrus fruits available and supplement with other colorful fruits, including pear and pomegranate seeds.
March 16, 2015 |

Chocolate Dipped Rice Cakes

Chocolate Dipped Rice Cakes This dessert is so simple, and isn’t restricted to the holidays. With just three ingredients (and sometimes 2) you can have a crunch, sweet, low-fat treat. Use your favorite rice cake or puffed corn cake, melt semi-sweet good quality chocolate chips (or your favorite carob or peanut butter chips), add a drop of two of extract if desired, and you’ve got a light, satisfying dessert.
November 23, 2014 |

Three Sisters Succotash

Three Sisters Succotash Corn, beans and squash are the principal foods of many Native American tribes. They’re called “the three sisters” because they support one another as they grow. The corn grows tall, allowing the bean vine to twine around her stalk. The bean fixes the nitrogen in the soil, and the squash has big leaves that hold in moisture.
October 13, 2014 |

Rancho La Puerta Spiced Apple Salad

Spiced-Apple-Salad Rancho La  Puerta Executive Chef Bill Wavrin, author of the best-selling Rancho La Puerta Cookbook, comments that this salad is “often requested by returning guests who can’t wait to get back and have it for lunch.” One of our readers notes: “This salad is easily adaptable for one person by just tossing a cut up apple with a handful of the loose ingredients, and then a splash of each wet ingredient, a shake of spice, and you’re there, in a few minutes flat. This healthy salad will also appeal to children.”   Rancho La Puerta Executive Chef Bill Wavrin, author…
September 5, 2014 |

Canyon Ranch Cold Pea Vegetable Salad

Cold Pea Vegetable Salad This unique salad is wonderful for entertaining because it can be made ahead of time. In fact, we like it even better the day after it is made. Because it is so easy to serve it is perfect for buffet-style service, a delightful addition to holiday menus, and great for picnics and tailgate parties.
August 19, 2014 |

French Canadian Spring Pea Soup

French Canadian Pea Soup Nothing tastes more like a Spring Garden than a bowl of this Spring Pea Soup with a vegetable sandwich and a light smoothie. It works well as both a warming bowl in colder months, but it’s also the perfect entree for a “Ladies’ Spa Lunch” in the Spring.
April 25, 2014 |

Canyon Ranch White Bean Soup with Pesto

Bean Soup with Pesto Both the bean soup and the pesto in this recipe can be served separately. The soup is good served cold with chopped leftover vegetables added to it and the pesto is a wonderful sauce for pasta. This simple faux pesto sauce has fewer ingredients than the recipe for Pesto Sauce in Canyon Ranch cookbooks, which also contains Miso and pine nuts. It can be served for vegan-vegetarian menus at Canyon Ranch because it does not contain cheese.
February 25, 2014 |

Pritikin Tomato Sauce

Tomato Sauce This tomato sauce was created for the Pritikin Eating Plan. The guest favorite recipes have no artery clogging fats like butter and cream and no added salt. Try it with chicken, meatloaf, and even fish!
February 3, 2014 |

Biggest Loser Breakfast Sausage

Biggest Loser Breakfast Sausage This recipe for healthy breakfast sausage is courtesy of Chef Devin Alexander and The Biggest Loser Cookbook. You’ll truly be surprised how easy it is to make your own pan sausage. Lower fat, higher flavor, easily customized to your liking with more or less spices, and no mystery nuggets or gristle bits.
October 4, 2012 |

Low Fat Citrus Pots de Creme

Citrus Pots de Creme Choose your favorite citrus flavors — tangerine, orange, lemon, lime, pineapple, or grapefruit for your perfect “Citrus Pots de Creme.” Keep in mind that orange and pineapple juices are sweet and you’ll need less sweetener. Perhaps none!
April 4, 2011 |

Mushroom Zucchini Frittata

Mushroom Zucchini Frittata This is from the Wooden Door Spa, a working woman’s health and diet retreat (the name was in gentle and fun response to the much more glamorous Golden Door Spa, in California) located on the shores of Lake Geneva, north of Chicago, in the 1980s.
April 4, 2006 |

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