easy recipe Archives - Eats by April

Easy Coconut Energy Bites

September 7, 2020 by April 2 Comments

With only 4 ingredients, these Easy Coconut Energy Bites will soon become your next favourite healthy snack recipe. File these bad boys under dangerously delicious. I can't hardly stop eating them you guys. In fact, a couple years ago, after a summer vacation at a cottage in Ontario (Kawartha lakes area to be a little more...

Easy Chicken Soup with Tomatoes and White Beans

May 10, 2020 by April Saunders 4 Comments

This Easy Chicken Soup with Tomatoes and White Beans is a life-saver kinda recipe, friends. You know when you need an all-in-one meal on a weeknight that's healthy and the kids will actually eat it? I've got you🙋‍♀️ And because this easy chicken soup hits all the points, it's on regular rotation in our house...

Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice

May 3, 2020 by April Leave a Comment

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...

Healthy Banana Bread with White Beans

March 22, 2020 by April 12 Comments

This Healthy Banana Bread with White beans is one yummy recipe. I posted this a while back and have since updated the recipe slightly (1 more banana and a wee bit more salt.) If you're looking for a moist, filling and healthy alternative to "traditional" banana bread, you've gotta check this one out. The recipe...

Simple Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

February 7, 2020 by April 2 Comments

It's February. It's cold. And I feel like the "Christmas-food" isn't ending this year. Do you ever feel like that? Maybe it's just the vitamin D deficiency talking but man. This season is feeling a bit rough. There's all these "extras" around the house that on their own, aren't a big problem, but because they're...

Moroccan-Spiced Black Bean Salad

January 19, 2020 by April 2 Comments

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,...

Kid Friendly Pumpkin Scones

November 3, 2019 by April Saunders 2 Comments

I feel like sometimes my toddler truly lives on air. Well, maybe not air but he certainly has his food, ahem, preferences. I don’t want to label him “picky”. I think he’s just acting like a toddler. However, it can be quite unnerving as a dietitian when your 3 year old eats only the CUCUMBER...

Easy Vegan Taco Salad

March 4, 2019 by April Leave a Comment

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...

Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos with Crunchy Slaw

April 10, 2018 by April Leave a Comment

Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos with Crunchy Slaw is in the house! This delish creation was inspired from a recent trip for tacos in Toronto at La Carnita. Oh boy, dem some good tacos :) I love how the tortillas are super small so they're stuffed to the brim - none of the layers and layers...

Roasted Vegetable Salad with Goat Cheese

November 20, 2017 by April Leave a Comment

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...