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 the Health4U recipe collections featuring MSU chefs and Health4U 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
The love for sweet potatoes keeps growing! This recipe is sure to please during the holidays!
Penne Pasta Provencal
If you haven't tried cooking with eggplant yet, this is a great recipe to test it out!
Cream of Fresh Broccoli Soup
A cup of this easy soup made with fresh broccoli and a dash of nutmeg makes a simple supper when served along side a grilled cheese sandwich. What's not to love?
Blueberry Quesadillas
Why limit quesadillas to dinnertime? Enjoy them for breakfast packed with blueberries and cheese.
Marinated Vegetable Stir Fry
The perfect combination of vegetable salad and stir fry.
Spinach Strawberry Salad
Fresh strawberries top this spinach salad while frozen strawberries enhance the dressing.
Roasted Fresh Asparagus
There's nothing like fresh summer asparagus! Roasting brings out the sweetness.
Apple Cabbage Salad
To get the most nutrition, use your cabbage for this recipe as soon as you cut it.