Having regular and reliable meals is a great way of providing good nutrition for health and wellness.   Planning for enjoyable food makes meals or snacks pleasurable and trying a new recipe can help add variety to repetitive meals. 

Check out the Health4U recipe collections featuring MSU chefs and Health4U staff members to help spice up your routine!


NOTE:

Please feel free to use these recipes and to share with family and friends. If you share them on-line or publish them in any way, please follow these guidelines:

  1. If you’re adapting someone else’s recipe, begin with a short note of the goal and what you looked for, perhaps something you changed and why. Then give credit to the person who you got it from: "Recipe adapted from ___________" and give a link to the original source.
  2. If you used someone else’s recipe for inspiration, but changed it substantially and the product is somewhat similar to the published recipe, give credit to the original by saying, " This recipe by (me) was inspired by ____________. The original recipe can be found here." and give a link to the original recipe.
  3.  If you change the ingredients substantially or completely came up with the product on your own; and you write directions in your own words for how you prepared it, the recipe is your own and you should claim it.
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Cranberry Glaze

This deliciously sweet glaze pairs perfectly with any meat, poultry, or wild game.

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Beef Pasties

This pastie recipe is perfect for the Michigan native. The combination of onions, potatoes, carrots and rutabaga in a pocket of pie crust is bound to warm you up in the colder months.

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Red Wine-Poached Pears

When it comes to fruit desserts, there’s none better than this meltingly soft pear infused with red wine and served with pear-wine syrup. Served warm or chilled, love’s in every bite!

Culinary Cooking and Concepts

Baked Salmon with Roasted Corn, Bean and Squash Relish

Simple baked salmon made pretty with a medley of fall vegetables

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Stuffed Red Peppers

Smoky flavor of melted Gouda cheese pairs nicely with sweetness of red bell peppers in this main or side dish

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Pan Seared Cod

Spice up your cod for dinner tonight!

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Go Green Hummus

A sweet alternative to chickpea hummus!

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Pineapple and Shrimp Banh Mi

A Vietnamese-style sandwich

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Kale and Lentil Stew

A hearty, vegetarian stew!

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Tuna Tacos

Spice up your tacos with tuna today!

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White Bean Hummus

If you're a hummus addict, give this white bean version a try!

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Food and Nutrition Counseling Services

Food and Nutrition Counseling Services provides you with access to accurate health and lifestyle information, helping you to explore new behaviors and skills, and identifying useful campus and community resources.

MSU community members eligible for food and nutrition counseling services include faculty, staff, graduate assistants, retirees and the spouses/partners of members of these groups.

To schedule an appointment with Health4U you are not required to email us from your MSU email address; please email us from the email address you are most comfortable with. 

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The goal of department based services is to provide work units and colleagues the opportunity to learn about health and wellness as a group activity or exploration.  

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