Healthy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert to turn healthy eating into a habit and something you enjoy. Next Gen Natural column by Michelle von Hahn.

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6 Healthy and Easy Recipes for Every Meal

A frantic work, family, and social schedule can leave you little time or energy to put a healthy meal on the table. That’s why it’s time to garner an appetite for the ready-in-a-hurry cooking method known as stir-frying. These globally inspired recipes will make you feel like a wok star.

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Wok your way toward worldly stir-fries 

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Stir It Up

As the old saying goes, “Variety is the spice of life.” Add some sass to your diet with these new foods you should put on your shopping hit list.

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Exciting new foods to keep your menu from running on repeat

New Kids on the Block

Ever dreamed of living on a farm, growing veggies, with cows leaning over a fence? Get a taste of the farm life with these garden to table recipes.

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Farm-to-table in our own backyard

Growing a Dream

We’ve got your Monday to Friday vegan eats covered with barbecue classics, international favourites, and salads that satisfy.

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Your plant-based meal plan

A Week of Living Vegan

Turn up the temperature and flavour with roasting, a naturally nutritious cooking method that turns everyday ingredients into golden brown dinners.

5 Roasting Recipes You'll Want to Make All Winter Long | alive

Kick up the heat; turn up the flavour

Why Not Roast?

The holidays are a time for indulging, but you don’t have to wolf down comfort food every evening. Stick with this lineup of healthy winter meals.

14 Healthy Winter Meals to Balance out Your Holiday Indulgences | alive

Stick with these simple, weeknight-friendly meals

14 Healthy Dinners to See You Through Winter

This fish pie was inspired by Jamie Oliver and lightened up by yours truly. Perfect for a crowd, it’s super easy to make and oh so tasty.

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Serves 8.

Dinner

Entree

Gluten Free

Curried Fish Pie

We’ve enlisted five social media superstars you may recognize to share some wow-worthy potluck dishes. These recipes are sure to impress!

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Family favourites from social stars

Crowd-Pleasing Potluck Dishes

These sushi bowls can be made using fresh ingredients from the farmers' market. The whole family can get involved in making this recipe.

Serves 4.

Salad

Asian

Roasted Chicken Sushi Bowls with Carrots and Miso Gravy

The most prominent colour at farmers’ market is undoubtedly green. This recipe makes the most of all the delicious greens you'll find there.

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Super-Green Salmon Pesto Salad with Baby Kale, Arugula, and Peas

Cook up a delicious feast with your farmers’ market goodies. The whole family will love these recipes that take fresh ingredients from farm to table.

From Farm to Table: 5 Farmers' Market Recipes | alive

Get the kids involved in making dinner

A Week of Healthy Recipes

Naan makes a great crust option when you want a hassle-free pizza night. This peach naan pizza with an arugula pesto will definitely knock your socks off.

Vegetarian

Pesto Peach Naan Pizza

Yes, you can make your own brown rice sushi at home! It's surprisingly easy.

Triple Seaweed Brown Rice Sushi

Don’t scrap the good stuff. Save money on your food bill while reducing food waste with these glammed-up goodies.

5 Food Waste-Reducing Recipes

Delicious recipes made with kitchen scraps

Few foods scream summer like freshly picked basil. Put it to creative culinary uses in the kitchen!

5 Summer-Inspired Basil Recipes

Spice up the dishes of summer

It’s Basil Time!

Leftovers can be the bane of any well-stocked refrigerator. But when you convert last night's dinner leftovers into tomorrow's lunch, it's a win-win.

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