Fall and Winter Fruit Salad
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This Fall and Winter Fruit Salad makes a perfect easy dessert for Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. It’s also great as a simple healthy snack that you can add to just about anything. Made with juicy and sweet fruits available in late fall and winter, this recipe doesn’t include any added sweeteners.
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New Potato Salad with Tomatoes and Dill

This new potato salad is incredibly flavourful and super budget-friendly, especially when tomatoes are in season. This salad can be served as a side dish for a weeknight dinner and is perfect for a BBQ party. If you have been following low Glycemic Index / low Glycemic Load way of eating for a while, you…
Beet Salad with Walnuts
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This Beet Salad with Walnuts is a perfect combination of earthy beets, sweet prunes, and crunchy walnuts. It’s a very simple recipe made with only four or five ingredients. It’s a great salad to make in advance as it tastes even better the next day. This article for Russian Beet Salad with Prunes and Walnuts…
Goat’s Milk Cheese and Sautéed Mushrooms Wrap

This wrap is perfect for lunch. Serve it with a garden salad and you’ll have a great low glycemic meal!
Oat Bran Banana Bread

This oat bran banana bread is made with whole wheat flour, yogurt, olive oil, and coconut sugar. If you don’t have coconut sugar, you can also sweeten it with maple syrup. Everyone needs a foolproof banana bread recipe in their recipe box. And it’s even better if the recipe is a bit healthier than the…
How to Make Russian Borscht
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Borscht is a vegetable soup that is very popular in Russia. The recipe has many variations – it seems that every family has their own secret to cooking Borscht. Traditionally, Borscht is cooked using home-made beef stock. I prefer a vegetarian version. Borscht is a low glycemic soup that is very filling and can be…
Romaine Salad with Chopped Veggies and Feta
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Romaine lettuce may be boring but this romaine salad with chopped veggies and feta is delicious, easy to make, and super versatile. It makes a great side salad and you can also have it for lunch or dinner if you add some more protein to it. This recipe is quite large in volume so this…