How to Not – A Healthy Eating Plan

Bake a single, perfect cookie. This toaster-oven-ready recipe is a smart way to satisfy a sweet craving without going overboard.

Pickle the vegetables, such as this salad with harissa vinaigrette, or char them with this broccolini and escarole salad.

Turn your vegetables into noodles. This healthy spiralized zucchini with chicken and watercress takes only 40 minutes to make.

Buy sustainable fish like char and trout. Jerk seasonings transform trout and caraway and fennel seeds spice up arctic char.

Swap in vegetables. Three kinds of mushrooms plus eggplant and carrots come together in this satisfying vegetarian Bolognese.

Get crunch from shredded wheat. Kay Chun coats pork chops in unsweetened shredded wheat cereal and lots of seasonings, then bakes.

Stretch a small amount creatively. This recipe calls for pounding beef tenderloin fillets thin and grilling them superquickly, so they stay supertender and juicy.

Prepare a healthy breakfast soufflé. Much of the prep can be done the night before.

Swap in yogurt, coconut oil or nut butter. Kay Chun gives her crisp cookies a deeply nutty flavor with sliced almonds, almond butter and almond meal.

Make a fruity iced tea. To cut back on sugar, Kay Chun mixes sweet tangerine juice with tart hibiscus tea.

Make yourself a cheesy snack without carbs. As a healthy way to deal with a pizza craving, bake freshly grated Parmigiano cheese until crisp, then serve it with a juicy tomato-basil salsa.

Try a tart, refreshing mocktail. This shrub is sweet and zippy and equally as good for a party as it is for a hangover.