We made it! You made it! 2021! A brand new, shiny New Year! A clean slate!
I hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas and a safe and celebratory New Years Eve. We spent it quieter than I hoped, as I ended up sick.
With my family’s help we made a very simple ham dinner, and enjoyed a quiet day celebrating the Lord’s birth together. And now I am feeling much better! Wahoo!!
20 Healthy & Budget Friendly Recipes for the New Year
I know we are all looking to eat healthier and it’s a bonus if they happen to be budget friendly too! I could use both right now!
Enjoy this clickable recipe collection of my favorite healthy, budget friendly, immune boosting recipes for 2021.
Healthy & Budget Friendly Recipes for the New Year
A collection of delicious, healthier and budget friendly recipes, these recipes are easy to make and delicious to taste! Breakfast, Smoothies, Snacks and meals.
Bircher Muesli (Original Overnight Oats)
Bircher Muesli is the original overnight oats; a quick and easy recipe for a healthy, whole grain and delicious breakfast. Lots of options!
Basic Crock Pot Soft Granola
Soft, hearty and chewy textured granola. Easily customizable to your tastes. Delicious on it's own with some milk or in a yogurt bowl or parfait.
Homemade Creamy Greek Yogurt
Creamy, thick, smooth homemade Greek yogurt! Takes a little time, but so worth every moment.
Bulletproof Coffee {Keto Coffee}
Bulletproof Coffee or as my husband and I call it, "Brain Coffee" is so smooth, rich and nutrient dense! Plus I'll share the benefits of drinking this coffee, also known as "Keto Coffee" and "Butter Coffee".
Cherry Clementine Protein Smoothie
I stumbled upon something AMAZING! This Cherry Clementine Protein Smoothie tastes like a cherry version of an Orange Julius, but with healthy, keep you full, nutrient rich ingredients!
Grandpa Frank's Spaghetti Sauce
One of my favorite budget friendly and healthy recipes! Makes a lot, freezes great, works in so many dishes! This robust tomato sauce is easy, all-natural, and so versatile.
Amazing & Delicious Winter Soups & Stews
More than 15 delicious Winter Soups, Stews and Slow Cooker Recipes that are easy, budget friendly and many of them healthy!
Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Salad
Sure, pasta salad people is a summer thing right? But it's so great for meal planning, make a big batch of pasta salad and eat for lunch all week long!
Easy Baked Spaghetti Pie
This Easy Baked Spaghetti Pie has been around forever and it IS easy and SO delicious! Layers of meat, cheese, a rich tomato sauce and spaghetti, create this spaghetti dinner in pie form, a budget friendly meal!
Instant Pot Homemade Elderberry Syrup (+ Stovetop Instructions)
A spoonful of Homemade Elderberry Syrup every day will help boost your immune system, preventing and treating flu and colds. Instant Pot or Stovetop
Homemade Vegetable Mineral Broth
Delicious, nutritious, immune-boosting, gut-healing vitamin and mineral rich vegetable broth! Perfect to sip, use in soups, stews or anywhere you use veggie broth.
Beef Bone Broth
This recipe for Beef Bone Broth is one of the most powerful superfoods there is and is extremely nutrient rich. In a relatively short period of time you will be sipping on this amazing broth or using it for soups and stews. Easily convert this bone broth to Chicken Bone Broth.
Slow Cooker Red Beans & Rice
Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice is chock full of smoky sausage (add chicken or ham), delicious creole cajun spices, veggies and healthy red beans. Perfect for Mardi Gras, or anytime you need some delicious comfort food!
Greek Quinoa Bowl
Bright, fresh, healthy and satisfying quinoa bowl, hearty enough for dinner, light enough for lunch.
Healthy Crack Chicken aka Creamy Salsa Chicken
This healthier crack chicken recipe (aka creamy salsa chicken) is easily made in your instant pot or slow cooker! Loaded with better for you ingredients, but still packs a ton of flavor. This recipe is great in tacos, sandwiches, quesadillas, enchiladas, salads or by itself for a low carb meal.
Mediterranean Layered Dip
A must have recipe in your appetizer collection, makes a great healthy meal too. This Mediterranean Layered Dip or Greek Layered Dip comes together in minutes; it's fresh, easy, flavorful, healthy and tastes amazing.
Copycat Chipotle Chicken
Craving a Chipotle Chicken burrito, bowls or just looking for a chicken recipe with amazing flavor? Now you can make this copycat Chipotle Chicken recipe at home, this recipe is on repeat in our home! In fact, I double the recipe and freeze one for later.
Chicken Shawarma Bowls
A simple marinated and grilled chicken dish that is easy to dress up or down. Serve with couscous, rice, pilaf or quinoa. Add chopped fresh cucumbers, tomatoes and artichoke hearts and drizzle with an amazing garlic yogurt sauce. Low Carb, Keto, Gluten Free options!
Easy Instant Pot Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya
Instant Pot Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya – a quick, easy, healthier, not-so-spicy version of jambalaya. It has so much flavor, you’re going to love it! No Instant Pot? No problem, I provide easy instructions for making on the stovetop!
The Best Homemade Sloppy Joes
Delicious brown sugar bacon sloppy joes are simmered in a rich, thick, full-bodied, sweet and sticky tomato sauce loaded with caramelized onion, red pepper, and bacon!
And if you are sending your college student back to school, send them armed with recipes they can make that are easy, budget friendly and college kid approved!
Healthy Recipes for College Students!
New Year, New Diet
I am not so much of a resolution girl, more of a goal setting girl and typically short term at that.
As this year has proven planning too far out isn’t wise! So join me goal setting in small chunks.
For instance, this is my 3rd year joining my friend and fellow blogger Eliza at The YOLO Blog for her January Money Diet. This is the kind of “diet” I can wrap my arms around!
From decluttering, spending challenges, selling items, a financial cleanse after a month of spending. I hope you will join me too! Sign up with me!
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BROWN BUTTER BUCKEYE BARK BARS
With being sick for the past few weeks, I did not get to all of the holiday recipes I had hoped to, but I did finally finish one, and it’s a winner, and not just for the holidays!
Make this no-bake, gluten free Brown Butter Buckeye Bark anytime you need a creamy, nutty, chocolatey treat!
TAKE ME TO THE NEW RECIPE ALREADY!
What’s The Fresh Cooky Cookin’?
Not a whole lot! I am grateful for friends who have brought us dinners, shopped for us; you know who you are — THANK YOU! But I did make a few things as I started to feel better.
- Cranberry Walnut Bread | Why do carbs taste so darn good when you don’t feel well!?
- Cheeseburger Soup (oh my word) | Recipe coming soon!!
- Cola Bourbon Ham, Cheesy Funeral Potatoes & Roasted Brussels Sprouts
- Traditional Tiramisu | a fabulous anytime dessert, looks fancy, but it’s not!
- Cranberry Lemon Drop Martini & Cherry Bomb| Because life is worth celebrating!
- Hammy Sammies | fabulous for leftover ham and always a favorite!
- Key Lime Pie | Because the sweet-tart creamy perfection is the best!
Thanks for hanging out with me today! May God give us all a happy, healthy New Year!
P.S. Check out last weeks Fresh Fridays, for more great ideas and recipes!
pat watson
Wishing you and family a great New Year, thanks for a good and interesting food blog.
Kathleen
Thank you so much Pat, wishing you and your family a great year as well!