3 Healthy And Delicious Recipes For Your Best Summer!

Wow, summer is in full swing and the temperature is climbing fast! It’s time to beat the heat. Sure, you can crank up the AC or turn on your ceiling fans and hope for the best, but the one thing that will truly cool you down this summer is some delicious cold food. This isn’t your average cold food, no this is a collection of healthy, mostly vegan, refreshing, and fundamentally incredible recipes that you can start crafting and enjoying for you and your family tonight! Sound off in the comments with your favorite healthy summer recipes and let us know if you ended up trying one of today’s recipes! We’d love to hear from you. 

Recipe #1: Ice Cold “Dessert Fruit Delights” (vegan)

Here’s the thing. Dessert is great, let’s get that clear right now. The thing is that modern cooking and baking has done nothing but reinvent the wheel and add unhealthy things like processed granulated sugar and butter and flour. The truth is that mother nature has already provided the perfect dessert for us, we just have to add a little touch of technological magic and we can have a healthy, delicious, and plentiful dessert within reach at any time. We’re talking about frozen fruit! Did you know that applying acute reduced temperatures to the sugar solids in ripe fruits like grapes, blueberries, or water melons actually increases the sweetness level without increasing the caloric intake level? Well, now you know! Starting with dessert first as all good meals should go, here is the recipe for frozen Dessert Fruit Delights.

  • Purchase or harvest 1 bundle each of green grapes, red grapes, blueberries, and one other favorite berry or melon

  • Wash thoroughly and take off the vine

  • Arrange together on a freezer safe dish like a glass container and place in a freezer bag with a zip top

  • Allow to freeze for at least 3 hours or overnight if possible. Take the dish out of the freezer bag and enjoy with your favorite meal or movie

Recipe #2: Fresh Hand-Cut Cucumber Summer Fiesta Salsa (vegan)

This next recipe takes vegetables and elevates them to the next level so that you can enjoy them as a side or as a main entree if you’d like. Pair this salsa with your favorite healthy chip or even make your own if you’ve got some hand-made tortillas handy.

Here’s the recipe.

  • 4 fresh ripe tomatoes, deseeded and chopped into small chunks

  • 1 green chili deseeded and diced into matchstick sized pieces

  • 1 red onion peeled and diced

  • 3 jalapenos deseeded and diced

  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove of freshly diced garlic (you can roast if first if you’d like)

  • .5 medium cucumber peeled and chopped into 1 or 2 cm square chunks. You can also grate it with a cheese grater

  • 1 teaspoon of chili powder

  • The juice of 1 fresh lime

  • Salt and pepper to taste

  • The prep: Mix all ingredients into a medium serving bowl and stir with a wooden spoon. Add salt and pepper to taste and you can even add some diced red bell peppers or other flourishes if you’d like. Serve fresh with your favorite chip or on top of your favorite grilled chicken breast and rice. 

Recipe #3: Watermelon Radish & Avocado Summer Rolls (vegan)

Hey, they’re called summer rolls, so we may as well eat and make them in the summer! Here is an excellent and healthy recipe for summer rolls that will have you and your guests asking for seconds. It is full of cooling veggies and is topped with a refreshing peanut sauce that will cool and refresh you and your guests. Here’s the full recipe.

For The Road
We hope you enjoyed learning about some of our favorite healthy summer recipes. Before deciding on a dietary change, we suggest getting to the root cause of your disease or health problem. For some people, adding ice can exacerbate their health issues often making digestive problems, menstrual pain or infertility worse. This is why we strongly suggest an in-person visit or a telemedicine consultation to create the most medicinal food suggestions for your body type. If you would like to know more about this or any of our excellent services, we are happy to help. Just contact us and we can go over your options and help you find the best path for your health and fertility goals. We hope these tips have helped you along your journey. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, please reach out to us HERE.

Colin Eggleston