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Eats by April

Healthy snacks and simple meals for families on-the-go!

Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice

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This Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice recipe couldn't have come at a better time🙋‍♀️ Let me back up: we got a meal delivery service. It's pretty cool! We get all the ingredients for 3 meals per week delivered to our door. The food is really, really yummy. It's pretty close to restaurant quality from...

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Easy Quinoa Salad with Feta

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Lunches be damned. Lunches at home, that is. Every. Dang. Day. By the way, why is making lunches at home harder than making packed lunches?! Or maybe it just seems that way. Whatever the deal is, having healthy, yummy and quick lunches is super key these days to keep on the healthy eating track as...

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Moroccan-Spiced Black Bean Salad

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Want a salad that can keep you satisfied, healthy and delicious? I know. Sounds like a pipe dream, right? But fear not, dear reader: I've got a salad for you that hits all these marks. And it's this Moroccan-Spiced Black Bean Salad 😄 With our schedules being so full these days with work, school, hockey,...

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Easy Winter Kale Salad with Spiced Nuts

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This post was sponsored by Canola Eat Well. I was a guest at their cooking event at the Luxe Appliance Studio in Toronto.  Event photos by Josh-Tenn Yuk courtesy of Canola Eat Well. Food photos by me. [mk_divider style="thick_solid" divider_width="one_third"] This Easy Winter Kale Salad with Spiced Nuts is my new go-to this season. When...

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Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds

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What to do with a massive contain of spinach? Make Spinach and Citrus Salad with Sweet and Spicy Almonds of course :) Well, and add it everywhere else I can! Spinach in my smoothies (really - you gotta try it), spinach in mason jar salads, like these: [mk_image src="https://aprilsaunders.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IMG_9588-1.jpg" group="_general" crop="false"] And let's not forget the...

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Easy Vegan Taco Salad

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This post was sponsored by the California Prune Board. This post contains no affiliate links. An Easy Vegan Taco Salad sounds right up my alley these days for 2 reasons: I love tacos (who doesn’t?) They're meat free I'm slowly (oh so slowly) transitioning away from meat for different reasons - (all personal, of course...

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Spicy Potato Salad with Cauliflower

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Nothing says summer like Spicy Potato Salad with Cauliflower! Ok, well maybe that's not exactly the version you grew up with. Maybe it was more of a blob of mayo and over-boiled potatoes with mashed eggs in a white, heavy, glutinous glob. So heavy, in fact, it threatened to cause your whole plate of food to buckle...

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Smoked Salmon Potato Salad

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Salmon salmon salmon! Oh how I love thee. Alright. I wasn't always this pumped about a fish but salmon is my default go-to choice when I eat out. (#ihadthesalmon is my main hashtag) With protein, heart-healthy omega 3 fats and a super versatile profile, I always have canned salmon in my pantry and frozen salmon...

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Roasted Vegetable Salad with Goat Cheese

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With fall in full swing (and with some hints of winter on the way - SNOW!), I'm definitely turning towards those good  ol' root vegetables to provide some hearty and delicious dishes. This Roasted Vegetable Salad with Goat Cheese recipe was inspired by a dish I had at Cafe Plenty in Toronto. Cafe Plenty is this...

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Easy Acorn Squash with Apples

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Now here's a fall recipe if I ever did see one! Acorn squash...apples...celery...onions  Nature's medley for sure :)  And this Easy Acorn Squash - Baked with Apples, is a perfect fall recipe for you to try.  And this one is particularly awesome because it's so easy and super healthy. And easy+healthy in my books, is...

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