Are you looking for easy and delicious low-calorie meals the entire family will love? It can be hard to please everyone you’re cooking for while also watching your calorie intake. Avoid having to cook separate dinners for yourself while you watch your weight with these tasty, prepped, low-calorie dinners the kids will love just as…
Tag: Healthy Eating
Easy Summer Side Dishes for Families
With the kids on summer vacation, many of us have more mouths to feed throughout the day. And with vaccinations ramping up and things getting back to normal, summer parties and backyard BBQs are on everybody’s minds. Whether you’re hosting a cookout or just looking for creative side dish ideas for the family, we’ve got…
7 Easy Low-Calorie Dinners to Make this July
Cooking low-calorie dinners that the entire family will love can be challenging. Luckily, we have plenty of low-calorie options on our July menu that also happen to be family favorites. Say goodbye to the days of trying to please the entire family while also counting your calories. With these 7 meals under 400 calories, counting…
Holding On to the Good Parts of a Rough Year
The beginning of the year is always a time to let go of the last year and welcome in opportunity and hope for the future, and that approach was heightened to the nth degree at the start of 2021! We were all so ready to say an enthusiastic “BYE!” to 2020. But now that we’re…
Low Carb Recipe Remixes
Happy new year from all of us at Dream Dinners! “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” – Melody Beattie The holidays are such a magical time of celebration, and we hope yours were truly wonderful. As we recover from a season of indulgence, it’s normal…
Fill up your Summer Season with Fruits and Vegetables
Summer is the perfect time to focus on eating plenty of delicious, ripe seasonal fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with disease defying vitamins, minerals and fiber. An adequate intake is good for your skin, immune system, digestion, and will help ward off high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. Often our…
2 Foundational Principles for Defeating Childhood Obesity
Are you Worried that your Kids are Headed Toward Obesity … before they Grow Up? We’re a culture obsessed with media-glorified body images and yet our lifestyles are mostly sedentary with a high caloric intake. We live in a contradiction that’s challenging to win. The grocery check-out highlights our dilemma with these two messages: (1) Follow these…
Healthy Snacking
Dream Dinners has you eating homemade meals at dinner time, but we want to help you avoid ‘famished-overeating’ by incorporating healthy snacks into your diet. Why healthy snacks? Because sugary snacks make you crave more sugar causing your blood sugar levels to vacillate like a yoyo. Low blood sugar makes you feel hungry and therefore…
A Heart Healthy February
February is American Heart Health Month. Staying heart healthy can be challenging with all of the high calorie, high fat and salty foods readily available as mealtime solutions for you and your family. This month we have 7 heart healthy* dinners and 4 of those can be served in 30 minutes or less.
New MyPlate icon helps families plan meals easier
The Federal government’s MyPlate icon was created to help everyday consumers think about eating healthier at dinner time. This icon provides a visual representation of what your dinner plate should look like in the way of protein, vegetables, dairy, fruits and grains.
Get motivated with a little help from your friends
If you want to lose weight or change your eating habits, let your family and friends know what you are doing, and be specific about how they can help you.
“…but Doc, I don’t add salt to my food!”
It is countless the number of times that I hear this or a similar response from patients when the topics of “low salt” or “heart healthy” diets arise during an office visit…