Quick Healthy Summer Recipes & Snacks
Looking for recipes that you can cook in under 30 minutes ?
If you can make sure you've got some fresh ingredients in the refrigerator, there are plenty of meal ideas that
you can easily cook in a hurry.
Here's our choice of easy to cook recipes that are nutritious and bursting with flavor:-
Avocado, Bacon and Bean Salad - for outdoor eating
with friends & family
Baked Sweet Potato - easy to cook, with a range of tasty
toppings
Cold Chicken Salad - a great way to use up leftover cooked
chicken
Easy Greek Salad - for a salad recipe that's bursting with
color & vitamins
Simple Healthy Soups - simply make and freeze ahead, for a
quick snack from the microwave
Please do send in your favorite quick & healthy summer recipes for us
to add to this page!
Quick Healthy Snack Recipes
Everyone either loves or hates tuna melts.
Here's our own healthy version of the popular tuna melt recipe, aimed at being low calorie, yet full of
goodness.
- Healthy Tuna Melt Recipe
Tips on how to make a light and healthy low fat tuna melt with wholemeal bread , mustard & tasty cheddar cheese for a quick lunch or snack.
- Salmon & Potato Wedges Bake
This tasty recipe is easy and quick to prepare, full of goodness and flavour (& omega 3) and a perfect simple supper for guests
Entertaining A Large Party of Friends
If you're inviting guests with a variety of dietary requirements - whether they're vegetarian,
lactose free, diabetic - it can be a challenge to know what to serve.
A great meal for getting to know everyone, whilst having fun, is to serve tortillas. Cook up a couple
of dishes, perhaps a chilli mix and also cook a few chicken breasts, slice and serve hot.
Serve buffet-style with guacamole, tortilla chips, sour cream dip, salsa, grated cheese, chopped tomato and
cucumber.
Perhaps you could even ask guests to bring one or two of the above ingredients each, to make it a real
bring and share occasion.
Serve plain wraps, but maybe have a pack of wholemeal wraps too (they're lower GI, so more appropriate
for a diabetic diet)
Allow guests to serve themselves - thus enabling to make their own diet choices.
This can be an enjoyable evening with friends, providing plenty of opportunity for conversation and getting to
know one another.
Summer Dessert Idea for Diabetics
One of our favourite summer dessert recipies is so quick and easy, yet full of flavour and pretty healthy
too.
Simply fill a bowl half full with greek style yogurt.
Top with fresh or frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc)
Leave for flavours to mix in together (frozen berries work best for this effect)
Serve with a teaspoon, to really enjoy and make the most of those wonderful flavours.
Of course, this also gives you one of your five a day fruit portions, and you can bet that kids wouldn't even
notice it was a healthy option!
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