Sausage and peppers is an Italian-American classic that makes a great quick easy dinner. It’s also a perfect recipe when you need to feed a crowd. And now that there are so many tasty chicken and turkey sausages to choose from, it can be really healthy too.
There are lots of different recipes for sausage and peppers out there so I’ve collected all of my favorites here in one place, including a great easy dinner recipe for sausage, peppers, onions and potatoes that cooks altogether in the oven.
Use whatever kind of Italian sausage you like best – pork, chicken or turkey – all work well.
Sausage Recipes fro Dinner
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Have you ever wondered about how to make healthy muffins from scratch at home? Making muffins is easy enough for kids and beginning bakers. All you need is the right healthy muffin recipe and some healthy muffin making tips.
Of course, it’s easy to buy muffins from a coffee shop or bakery. But it can be dangerous to your health and weight. They are usually big and fattening. (If the muffin you’re eating tastes like cake, it probably has as much fat, sugar and calories as cake!)
A better option is to make homemade muffins from scratch.
Making Healthy Muffins from Scratch
When you bake muffins at home from scratch you are in charge of the ingredients you use and the size of the muffins you make. One or two basic muffin recipes are all you really need. Then you can customize them to include what you have on hand at any given time.
But it’s important not to go overboard when making healthy baked goods or you can end up with muffins that are dry, tasteless and/or rubbery. You need to find the healthy balance.
If you enjoy muffins for breakfast, use these tips and strategies to whip up a healthier version. At the end of this post, I’ve included a basic healthy muffin recipe that can be modified in lots of different ways.
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Are you interested in making the best healthy muffins from scratch? You’ll want to check out 750 Best Muffin Recipes: Everything from breakfast classics to gluten-free, vegan and coffeehouse favorites
by Camilla V. Saulsbury .
It it is quickly becoming one of my favorite new cookbooks even though I’ve only had it a couple of weeks. And I’m not alone. (When I last checked, this book had over 30 reviews on Amazon.com and they’re all five stars.)
This isn’t just a book of healthy muffins. It includes all kinds of muffin recipes from healthy to indulgent. But the volume and quality of healthy muffin recipes – including a whole chapter of muffins made with super-foods – are impressive. Once you make a few batches of muffins from this book, you’ll never want to go back to using a boxed mix again.
750 Best Muffin Recipes Cookbook
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Healthy breakfast muffins are perfect for both kids and adults. These delicious recipes are quick, easy and healthy options to help you get your day started right.
All of these recipes are brimming with good for you breakfast ingredients and best of all are easy to make. If you’ve ever wondered how to make healthy muffins from scratch, you’ll want to give one of these recipes a try to see just how easy it is. Once you do, you’ll never need to make muffins from a box or buy expensive fattening bakery muffins again.
Healthy Oatmeal Muffins
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I love making pumpkin muffin recipes with canned pumpkin puree.
Did you know that pumpkin is one of the most nutritional foods available year round? It’s low in calories, rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals including vitamin A, vitamin C, riboflavin, potassium and manganese; fat free, cholesterol free and an excellent source of fiber. Just one-half cup contains 5 grams of fiber which helps reduce bad cholesterol, protect the body from heart disease, control blood sugar, promote healthy digestion, and help with weight loss.
As a lazy cook, I like canned pumpkin puree better than fresh. It’s quick, easy and consistently good. In addition to using it to make muffins, you can use pumpkin puree in soups, breads, pasta, puddings and smoothies.
Healthy Homemade Pumpkin Muffins
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If you’re looking for easy tasty healthy blueberry muffin recipes, you’ve come to the right place.
Blueberries are healthy but unfortunately, most blueberry muffins found at the grocery store, coffee shop or bakery are not. They are huge calorie and sugar bombs that are a whole lot more like cupcakes than muffins.
You’re much better off making blueberry muffins at home from scratch so you can control both what ingredients you put in them and how big you make them. You can boost the health and nutrition of your blueberry muffins in lots of different ways – use wholegrain flour instead of white, decrease the sugar and fat, and add more blueberries – for example.
Fresh Blueberry Muffin and Coffee
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Here are my four favorite healthy bran muffin recipes. I know it’s a little strange to have four favorite recipes for bran muffins, but I’ve been a bran muffin fan forever.
Unfortunately, the bran muffins you buy in bakery and coffee shops can be hazardous to your health and waistline.
Years ago I used to begin my day with coffee full of cream and sugar and a Dunkin’ Donuts honey bran muffin, thinking I was being healthy. I couldn’t understand why I had a hard time losing weight since I walked miles and did Aerobics almost everyday.
Imagine my shock and dismay when I discovered that this supposedly healthy food had 490 calories, 15 grams of fat and 44 grams of sugar. (I would have been better off eating their Boston Kreme Donut, which has 310 calories and16 grams of fat and 16 grams of sugar.)
Healthy Homemade Cranberry Bran Muffins
That’s when I began making healthy bran muffins at home. You’re always better off making muffins at home from scratch because you can control what you put in them and how big you make them, saving yourself a ton of calories.
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I love to have healthy banana muffins around for both easy healthy breakfasts and afternoon snacks.
Most of the muffins you find in coffee shops, bakeries and grocery stores are really more like cupcakes – filled with sugar and high in unhealthy fats. Almost any muffin you make at home from scratch will be a better for your health and waistline.
There are lots of easy ways to boost their health even more. You can use wholegrain flour for all or part of the white flour. Use less oil or sugar. This is especially easy with healthy banana muffins. When you use really ripe bananas they provide a lot of natural sweetness so you need less sugar.
Healthy Homemade Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
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Are you looking for healthy apple or applesauce muffins?
There are lots of ways to make muffins healthy. The key is to find the balance between taste and health so that the muffins taste delicious, not heavy or rubbery.
Some of my favorite ways to make muffins healthier include using whole wheat flour in place of some or all of the all-purpose flour, substituting applesauce for some of the oil and adding healthy ingredients like apples, oats, nuts and cranberries.
Healthy Whole Wheat Apple Muffins
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Here are two healthy easy recipes for chicken and dumplings – one cooked on the stove and another that cooks in the slow cooker.
If you love chicken and dumplings made from scratch but don’t have the time or desire to cook the chicken, cool it and then remove the skin and bones, here are two great quick and easy alternatives that use already cooked chopped chicken and chicken broth instead.
I never make chicken and dumplings from scratch. Instead I make it when I have leftover chicken to use. It’s so much easier.
Healthy Easy Chicken & Dumplings
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