A Popular Trader Joe's Salad Just Got Recalled—Here's What to Know

A popular ready-to-eat salad kit from Trader Joe’s has been recalled due to unmarked allergens on the ingredient label. TheUSDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Serviceissued a warning to customers on March 4, after Trader Joe’s announced they would be taking the salad off of shelves in the states of Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Over 400 Types of Ready-to-Eat Salad & Sandwich Products Recalled Due to Possible Listeria Contamination Courtesy of Brand; EatingWell collage...

January 18, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · Vicki Duran

A Protein-Packed 2-Ingredient Ice Cream Made with Cottage Cheese? Yes, Really!

Close Photo: Getty Images The weather is warming up, which means we’re already gathering the ingredients to make some ofour favorite cool-down treats, including everything fromfrozen banana bitestocreamy, fruity ice cream. But while we’re used to seeing ingredients like Greek yogurt and frozen fruit get pureed into easy homemade ice creams,Yumna Jawad of Feel Good Foodiejust introduced us to a new ice cream base we can’t wait to try: cottage cheese....

January 18, 2025 · 3 min · 494 words · Alexandra Finley

A Protein-Packed Pasta Sauce Made with Cottage Cheese? Yes, Really!

Yumna Jawad from Feel Good Foodie warned us that cottage cheese was going to be thefood trend of the summer, so we’re not surprised that yet another variation of the cheesy trend is taking over the internet. Fromice creamtoedible cookie dough, we’ve talked about cottage cheese starring in your favorite desserts, but this time, the curdled cheese is highlighted in a savory dish: pasta. The cheese being mixed into pasta sauce shouldn’t be too shocking, but we understand if there’s some hesitation....

January 18, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Andrew Cook

A Registered Dietitian Answers All of Your Carb Questions

There is no standard definition for a low-carb diet. It is simply a diet that is lower in carbohydrates than what is recommended or than what most people consume. The Dietary Guidelines recommend that 45-65 percent of calories come from carbohydrates. So any diet with carb intake less than 45 percent of total calories is considered a low-carb diet.What are carbs?Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients in our diets. The other two are protein and fats....

January 18, 2025 · 15 min · 3014 words · Jessica Powers

A Simple Recipe for Blackened Catfish

Close Photo: Caitlin Bensel Active Time:10 minsTotal Time:30 minsServings:4Jump to Nutrition Facts Active Time:10 minsTotal Time:30 minsServings:4 Active Time:10 mins Active Time: 10 mins Total Time:30 mins Total Time: 30 mins Servings:4 Servings: 4 Jump to Nutrition Facts Jump to recipe Blackened Catfishis big on flavor and perfect for a weeknight meal. Catfish is budget-friendly, low in mercury and is packed with lean protein. And did we mention delicious too? You can make your blackening spice ahead of time so you can get dinner on the table in no time....

January 18, 2025 · 4 min · 837 words · David Goodwin

A Simple, Delicious Pasta Aglio e Olio (With Garlic and Oil)

Close Photo: Greg DuPree Active Time:25 minsTotal Time:25 minsServings:4Jump to Nutrition Facts Active Time:25 minsTotal Time:25 minsServings:4 Active Time:25 mins Active Time: 25 mins Total Time:25 mins Total Time: Servings:4 Servings: 4 Jump to Nutrition Facts Cook Mode(Keep screen awake)Ingredients7ouncesuncooked bucatini pasta½cuproasted walnut oil5garlic cloves, thinly sliced¼cupchopped fresh flat-leaf parsley¼teaspoonsea salt¼cupgrated pecorino Romano cheese (optional) (Optional)Freshly ground black pepper (optional) (Optional) Cook Mode(Keep screen awake) Ingredients 7ouncesuncooked bucatini pasta ½cuproasted walnut oil...

January 18, 2025 · 2 min · 311 words · Joseph Ibarra

A Study Hints That 38% of Cognitive Decline Risk Is Impacted By These Lifestyle Factors

In This ArticleView AllIn This ArticleWhat One Brain Health Study FoundCognitive Decline Factors In This ArticleView All View All In This Article What One Brain Health Study Found Cognitive Decline Factors If you can still sing along to every boy band song of the early 2000s and can recite your childhood best friend’s phone number, you might be thinking you’ll never have to worry about memory challenges. While it’s true that a minority of Americans are officially diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, it’s probably far more common than you might expect....

January 18, 2025 · 5 min · 860 words · Amanda Smith

A Sunday Meal-Prep Plan for When You Only Have 30 Minutes

Close Don’t jump ship on your meal prep when you’re super busy! Instead, tweak your meal-prep plan to maximize your time. Focus on tasks that yield big returns to help you eat healthy during the week. Maybe you won’t have time to get everything done on Sunday, but any time spent prepping meals for the week ahead is time well spent, even if it’s only 30 minutes. Here we break down easy meal-prep steps you can do even on your busiest days and offer up two 30-minute example plans for streamlining your lunches, dinner and snacks for the week....

January 18, 2025 · 4 min · 848 words · Paula Richards

A Trader Joe's Candle Is Being Recalled for Potential Overheating Risk

Photo: Courtesy of Brand Did you stop and add a candle to your cart on your last Trader Joe’s run? Check the labeling, because it may have just been recalled. Trader Joe’s has justannounced a recallon their Tomato Leaf Scented Candle. This is due to the product being reported to overheat and crack or break during use. While there are no reported injuries connected to this recall, the candle’s glass jar overheating can cause potential injury and/or damage to consumers and their homes....

January 18, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Michael Nichols

A Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis Before Age 60 Might Increase Dementia Risk By 300%, New Study Finds

Close Photo: Getty Images Rates of diabetes are expected to jump 54% between 2015 and 2030, according to estimates published February 2017 in the journalPopulation Health Management—far outpacing population growth. So while there is certainly agenetic componentinvolved in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, science stands behind the fact that lifestyle factors can play a role in our risk for type 2 diabetes, and its precursor prediabetes. In case you missed it, 11....

January 18, 2025 · 4 min · 756 words · Vincent Marquez

A Visit to Iran Helped This Cookbook Author Find a Deeper Family Connection—and Delicious Recipes

Close The author learned to make chicken stews such as this morgh-e torsh when she visited Iran. .Photo: Eric Wolfinger If I didn’t look so much like my dad’s side of the family, I may have never visited Iran. My father grew up in Tehran but left decades ago, and has never returned. Growing up, my tenuous connection consisted mainly of hearing my father speak to relatives on the phone in the upward-arcing ­cadences of Farsi, and gathering with other Iranians each spring in the Philadelphia suburbs to celebrate the Persian New Year, Nowruz....

January 18, 2025 · 3 min · 631 words · Kayla King

A Week of 5-Ingredient Dinners for Less Than $50

Close If you want to be better at saving money, one place to start is with dinner. Making dinner at home more often and relying less on delivery or dinner out is a strategy that’s made easy with the help of this meal plan. To keep things simple and cheap during the workweek, stick to recipes with only five ingredients (not including the bare essentials like oil, salt and pepper) and rely on low-cost items, like canned beans, brown rice and on-sale veggies....

January 18, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Carrie Fischer

A Week of Easy High-Protein Dinners for High Blood Pressure

Close 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure (also known ashypertension), which is a condition where plaque builds up in the arteries and forces your heart to work harder to pump blood throughout the body. If left untreated, high blood pressure can lead to heart attack, stroke and kidney damage. Thankfully, a healthy diet and lifestyle can help prevent those complications. If you’re trying to lower high blood pressure, research shows the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) is one of the most effective ways to lower high-blood pressure....

January 18, 2025 · 7 min · 1332 words · Jennifer Goodwin

A.J. Rathbun

Title:Contributing WriterEducation:B.S. in Political Science, Kansas State University, M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, Western Michigan UniversityLocation:Seattle, WashingtonExpertise:Mixology, writing, culinary education Title:Contributing Writer Education:B.S. in Political Science, Kansas State University, M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry, Western Michigan University Location:Seattle, Washington Expertise:Mixology, writing, culinary education EatingWell, aDotdash Meredith Brand, has been publishing award-winning journalism about food, nutrition and sustainability since 1990. Our mission is to share flavor-packed recipes from around the world, celebrating fresh ingredients and the farmers, artisans and chefs who bring them to our table....

January 18, 2025 · 1 min · 104 words · Jason Ford

Abbey Sharp, RD

Title:Contributing WriterEducation:B.A.Sc. in Nutrition Sciences, Ryerson University; Dietetics Internship, Sunnybrook Health Sciences CentreLocation:Toronto, OntarioExpertise:Nutrition, meal prep and planning, keto dietAbbey Sharp is a registered dietitian, YouTuber and the founder of Abbey’s Kitchen, a resource for delicious recipes and tips for healthy eating. She has contributed to Self, Best Health, Healthline and Greatist. Her debut cookbook, The Mindful Glow Cookbook, was awarded the Taste Canada Gold Medal award in 2019. Abbey is best known for debunking and dismantling diet culture online with science and sass....

January 18, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Stephen Williams