Dine on one of these delicious, heart-healthy meals this spring. They’re full of nutritious foods like avocados, carrots, and cabbage, so you can take advantage of seasonal items when they’re at their freshest. This collection also includes heart-healthy ingredients like bananas, potatoes, and green leafy vegetables that are full of potassium that can help lower blood pressure. Each dish is low in saturated fat and sodium and with at least 940 milligrams of potassium per serving to maintain healthy blood pressure levels.
Recipes like our Eat-the-Rainbow Vegetable Soup are tasty make-ahead options to take to work or school. And you’ll want to make others like our Chipotle Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowl again and again.
Chipotle Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowl
This tasty burrito bowl features grilled chicken coated in a spicy chipotle glaze. Loading it up with veggies and using quinoa instead of rice adds nutrition for a healthier dinner.
Vegan Superfood Grain Bowls
Photographer: Fred Hardy, Food Stylist: Margaret Monroe Dickey
This nutrient-packed grain bowl recipe comes together in 15 minutes with the help of a few convenience food shortcuts like prewashed kale, microwaveable quinoa, and precooked beets. Pack them ahead of time to have on hand for easy meal prep lunches or dinners on busy nights.
Chickpea and quinoa grain bowl
Robby Lozano
It seems that grain bowls come in as many variations as there are stars in the sky, and there’s no wrong way to build one! But we prefer to keep things classic and simple with hummus, quinoa, avocado and loads of veggies!
Eat the rainbow vegetable soup
Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall, Accessories Stylist: Shell Royster
This vibrant and healthy soup recipe helps maintain your well-being. It’s full of a variety of colorful vegetables, like tomatoes, which contain lycopene, a phytochemical that can help reduce inflammation. The soup base is prepared in advance and stored in separate containers. Simply add the broth and heat it up in the microwave when you’re ready to eat. If you don’t want to travel with vegetable stock or don’t have access to a microwave, you can use low-sodium stock and add hot water.
Chicken and cucumber lettuce wraps with peanut sauce
We love the crunch of sliced cucumber and jicama in these savory chicken lettuce wraps. Serve with the simple peanut sauce for an easy dinner recipe that will impress kids and adults alike.
No-cook black bean salad
The dressing in this vegan black bean salad gets its creaminess from the avocado mix. Any mix of salad greens will work well, but try arugula if you want to give this hearty salad a kick of pepper.
Quinoa avocado salad
Protein-packed quinoa combines with creamy avocado in this refreshing grain salad. It is the perfect side dish to prepare for a picnic or to take to a lunch. Either pack it for lunch or enjoy it as a light dinner.
Rainbow Grain Bowl with Cashew Dip
This vibrant bowl is packed with nutrients to keep you full for hours. Look for precooked lentils in the refrigerated section of the produce department.
High fiber matcha green smoothie bowl
Eating Well
Matcha powder and spinach give this healthy smoothie bowl a beautiful green hue. If you don’t have spinach on hand, try substituting a dark leafy green like kale.
Baked potatoes topped with bacon and avocado
A baked red potato is topped with crumbled bacon, diced avocado, salsa and shredded Colby Jack cheese, a meal in itself!
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