Make It Healthy Challenge: Fav Recipes Get Healthy Makeover

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Making Healthier Meals Easier Than You Think

Imagine a world where we all made an effort to eat a little healthier. How would your life be better? How would your family's life be better?

Eating healthier doesn't mean expensive, bland, tiny or complicated meals. It just means choosing healthier alternatives, making better choices and learning a little bit more about food and what impact food has on you and your family. This challenge will prove how easy and delicious and inexpensive eating healthy can be.

Up for the challenge? Find out how you can be a part of it and what kind of badge you can earn.

Thanks for the idea sandyspider.

Eating Healthy

The Healthier View

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The Winners Are.....

Category 1 : How to Make Healthier Zucchini Bread by sandyspider

Category 2: There was a 3 way tie so I chose the winner and the winner is
How to Cook Healthy by bethd821

Category 3: Recipe Lens You Have Updated To Be A lot Healthier No entry

Category 4: Healthy Eating Lenses
Baked Macaroni and Cheese by clouda9

Thank you for entering the challenge and for inspiring other to live healthier happier lives. Feel free to post the badge below on your winning lenses.

The Now Make It Healthy Challenge

The Challenge

Image credit to Steve Thompson

This lens was created for the Healthy Living group, but it is not exclusive to the Healthy living groups. All Squidoo members can participate. All you have to do is add your healthy specific food lenses to the Plexos below. Make sure your lens is truly a healthy one, there must be a healthy focus in your lens.

The challenge is from August 13 to September 30th. The winners of the challenge will receive a healthy living badge, will be featured on my blog and showcased on my facebook fan page(s). and more...

Image by Steve Thompson. Click on the image to see more of Steve's work.

The Badge

Thank you Steve for making this badge!

Image by Steve Thompson. Click on the image to see more of Steve's work.

image credit to Steve ThompsonThis badge goes to: Sandyspider for her How to Make Healthier Zucchini Bread, Bethd821 for her How to Cook Healthy, and Clouda9 for her Baked Macaroni and Cheese.

The winners will also soon be featured on Squidoo Lens Review , as well as my personal blog Gloria's Place, linked the social food site Food Lovers Web, in addition to blurrbing something about it at the Food Lovers Website, tweeted, Facebooked and a lot more. :)

Anyone willing to provide more prizes?

If you are willing to provide additional prizes for the winner(s) of this challenge please contact me.

Add Your Healthy Lenses

Add you healthy lenses below. Make sure you add it to the correct Plexo. Yes, you can add more than one.

Healthy Garden Salad with Fresh Vegetables in Bowl

Please Vote!

Entry into the challenge is over. Now it's time to vote. Vote for your favorite lens or lenses in the four categories below. Voting will start October 1st until October 12. Voting Extended to October 30th.

Thank you for voting!

I hope you enjoyed the lenses. Feel free to share this lens or any of the lens added to this lens with your friends and family. Remember voting ends October 12.

Ecolicious Healthy Food Lenses

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Eating Healthy and Making Healthy Meals

Ideas, tips, suggestions and resources.

Healthy Recipe Books

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Way to make a recipe healthier

Tips and suggestions and healthier ingredient alterantives

If you have any ideas that have worked for you feel free to add them here.

Steam, bake, broil, braise or grill instead of fry

2 points

add fresh fruits and vegetables instead of canned

2 points

reduce the meat portion and increase the vegetable portion

2 points

use whole grain ingredients instead of bleached

ex. flour- whole grain flour
ex. rice - whole grain more...1 point

use organic or locally grown and raised foods and ingredients

1 point

Switch to a healthier frying oil

0 points

use yougurt instead of buttermilk

0 points

use honey instead of sugar

0 points

healthy substitutions

Try some fat-fighting baking substitutions: Use 3 more...0 points

How to Eat Healthier

All Day Long

These are super simple tips you can follow everyday to make eating healthy a routine.

Snack on fresh fruit

2 points

Start your meal with a large glass of water

1 point

Add more fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and seeds to your meals to get more fiber and anti-oxidants.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Any-Meal-Into-a-Health more...1 point

reduce your portion size

1 point

shop healthier

stay away from the junkfood1 point

Eat slowly and appreciate what you are eating

0 points

0 points

Start with one healthier ingredient and go from there.

if you are not use to eating healthy take it slow. Start with one meal or just one healthier ingredient at a time. Don't try to do it all at once.

Share some of your healthy savings with...

The Food For Everyone Foundation's mission is to teach and assist families everywhere to grow successful and sustainable vegetable gardens, and really enjoy the experience.

Now Make it Healthy Feedback and Guestbook

Best Review - Top 3 Now Make It Heal

  • ShamanicShift Dec 2, 2010 @ 7:59 pm | delete
    What an interesting and helpful lens!
  • clouda9 Nov 1, 2010 @ 6:22 pm | delete
    Thanks for the award on my Low Cal Baked Macaroni and Cheese Recipe - proudly displaying the badge ;)
  • sandyspider Nov 1, 2010 @ 6:04 pm | delete
    Congrats to all the winners. Thanks for the badge.
  • sandyspider Oct 4, 2010 @ 3:51 pm | delete
    Looks like a good selection of healthy lenses here. Good luck to everyone.
  • Megal Sep 26, 2010 @ 10:55 am | delete
    I really like that Logo. Anyway, this is great for me because I really need to learn how to cook more.
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Questions about the challenge...

send me a message with any questions. To send me a message scroll up to my bio, click on my profile name Ecolicious. This will take you to my profile page. Look under my very strange profile pic. There is a contact me button. Click on it. A box will pop up and this is where you type your message.

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