Recipes
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 our recipe collections featuring MSU chefs and health promotion staff members to help spice up your routine!
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:
- 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.
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- 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.
Festive Pomegranate Guacamole
Enjoy this colorful take on guacamole with a splash of tart from the pomegranates.
Christmas Tree Spinach Dip Breadsticks
Enjoy this creative spinach dip and breadstick creation this holiday season!
Vegetarian Taco Salad
This recipe was demonstrated in the 2022 Well-being Wednesday Series with the Worklife office. This is a nice reacipe to use your fall garden greens.
Lunch Salad - 3 Different Ways
Enjoy this light and refreshing summer salad at lunch all week long. Create the base. Then, add the extras each day to enjoy a different variety all week.
Vanilla espresso Energy Bites
Make these delicious energy bites and enjoy them as a quick burst of fuel in the morning or afternoon.
Monster Cookies
Make these delicious cookies to enjoy with a glass of milk for an after-school snack or dessert with lunch or dinner.
Braised Buffalo with Pan Sauce
This buffalo recipe was a part of a program exploring North American Cuisine with a focus on Great Lakes Indigenous Foods. Enjoy this hearty entree along with Beans, Corn & Squash and Wild Rice Pilaf.
Corn Cakes with White Bean Spread
Enjoy Chef Rob Trufant's take on corn cakes providing a vessel for white beans and smoked salmon. This recipe comes from a demonstration focused on Great Lakes Indigenous Foods. Enjoys these as an appetizer or as a main dish served with salad.
Beans, Corn & Squash
This recipe was used as a second side dish in our Great Lakes Indigenous Foods cooking demonstration. The dish includes 4 simple ingredients and goes a long way! We originally paired it with the Braised Buffalo, but it also makes a great leftover lunch.
Wild Rice Pilaf
This side dish was one of two dishes created for our Great Lakes Indigenous Food cooking demonstration. Wild rice has a long history in the Great Lakes region. Enjoy this flavorful yet simple recipe with the Braised Buffalo!
Fry Bread with Wojapi
Wojapi is a traditional Native American berry sauce cooked down to a thick jelly or pudding consistency. This sauce is delicious over Fry Bread or a nice dressing over turkey, chicken or pork.
Chicken Pot Pie
Enjoy this warm and savory chicken pot pie on a cool day!
