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Easy Heart Healthy Recipes

Welcome to Being Nutritious!

Our heart healthy recipe site is full of delicious, easy recipes & tips for everyone, all lovingly created by Dietitian Laura. Whether you're looking for full meals, snacks, breakfast, or appetizers, we've got it all.

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These are our most popular heart healthy recipes from our readers!

  • Dehydrated banana chips spilling out of a glass jar.
    How To Make Dried Bananas
  • Glass bottle of salad dressing
    Low Sodium Italian Dressing & Marinade
  • Overhead picture of a bowl of creamy mushroom soup.
    Healthy Mushroom Soup
  • Bowl of marinara sauce
    Low Sodium Spaghetti Sauce (Low Sodium Marinara Sauce)
  • Hand reaching into a bowl of Chex mix.
    Healthy Chex Mix
  • Red sauce in a jar, with enchiladas being made in the background.
    Low Sodium Enchilada Sauce
  • A green smoothie in a tall Mason jar with a metal straw. Cucumber slices and green apple pieces in the background.
    Apple Cucumber Smoothie
  • Wooden bowl with red cabbage coleslaw in it.
    Red Cabbage Vinegar Slaw

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How to Cook with Less Salt

Your doctor said to cut the salt. It's old advice. You've heard it before. You've even tried! Why does salt have to make food taste so good, and why is food so bland without it?! I'll break it down, and share some of my best tips for how to cook with less salt.

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Memorial Day Recipes

Celebrate the unofficial start to summer with these delicious and healthy recipes!

  • Casserole dish with stuffed peppers in it.
    No Bake Chickpea Stuffed Peppers
  • Two glass dishes of cherry ice cream.
    Cherry Nice Cream with Almonds
  • Glass baking dish with lentil baked beans and a wooden spoon scooping some.
    Healthy Baked Beans (with Lentils)
  • Glasses of agua fresca, with strawberries, watermelon slices, limes and mint scattered around. Carafe of beverage in background.
    Strawberry Watermelon Agua Fresca
  • Whole wheat drop biscuits on a serving tray.
    Whole Wheat Drop Biscuits
  • Stack of cookies on a plate.
    Cherry Pistachio Cookies
  • Balls of melon in a watermelon bowl
    Melon Salad with Ginger Lime Dressing
  • Close up of a strawberry muffin on a wire rack.
    Strawberry Cardamom Muffins with Yogurt

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Low Sodium Condiments

Condiments contribute so much sodium to our diet, that these low sodium (and low/no added sugar) condiments are some of our most popular recipes!

  • Small jar of pumpkin spice syrup.
    Healthy Pumpkin Spice Syrup
  • Strawberry sauce in a small glass creamer, with fresh strawberries scattered around.
    Healthy Strawberry Sauce {no added sugar}
  • Large stone mortar and pestle filled with guacamole.
    Low Sodium Guacamole
  • Small wooden bowl with taco seasoning in it, and a wooden spoon.
    Salt Free Taco Seasoning

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Healthy Desserts

Eat dessert first! You don't even have to feel bad about it!

  • 5 peanut butter cookies with chocolate kisses in them, on a serving plate.
    Healthier Peanut Butter Blossoms
  • Small plate of peppermint hot cocoa bites.
    Peppermint Hot Cocoa Cookies (no-bake)
  • Glass dish with three scoops of peach sorbet; garnished with peach slices and fresh tarragon.
    Peach Tarragon Sorbet
  • Overhead shot of a whole pie, with fresh peaches beside it.
    Fresh Peach Pie {no added sugar}

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Laura Yautz in her kitchen

About Laura, RDN

I’m a Registered Dietitian and I love food and cooking. It’s my passion to help you discover how delicious and easy heart healthy eating can be!

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Snack Attack!

Simple, heart healthy snacks.

  • Crispy chickpeas in a heart shaped bowl.
    Garlic Roasted Chickpeas
  • Single muffin on a dish. A stack of muffins is visible in the background.
    Cinnamon Raisin Muffins
  • Close up of a mini muffin on a cooling rack with the rest of the muffins in the background.
    Mini Peanut Butter Oatmeal Muffins
  • Pile of 3 popsicles lying on a dish.
    Mango Pops

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Newest Recipes

Our most recently created heart healthy recipes for your tasting pleasure!

  • Overhead image of whole eggless quiche in a pie plate.
    Eggless Quiche with Spring Veggies
  • Three small jars of smoothie, with straws.
    Banana Beet Smoothie
  • Bowl of lentil and mushroom stew, garnished with parsley.
    Instant Pot Irish Stew with Lentils and Mushrooms
  • Whole, unsliced loaf of bread, sprinkled with oats.
    Irish Wheaten Bread

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We regularly review content for accuracy, and update pictures. Here's what we've been up to recently!

  • Salt pouring from a salt shaker
    Foods to Avoid If You Have High Blood Pressure (and what to eat instead)
  • Close up glass of mango orange smoothie.
    Mango Orange Smoothie
  • Two tall glasses of a smoothie, garnished with a fresh strawberry.
    Pink Smoothie
  • Berry smoothie in a mason jar, with frozen berries scattered around the outside, and a spoon with peanut butter on it.
    Berry Smoothie with Peanut Butter
Laura Yautz in her kitchen

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Seasonal Spring Recipes

  • Bowl of white chili, garnished with sliced avocado, a lime wedge, and chopped cilantro.
    White Bean Veggie Chili

  • Overhead image of a bowl of cooked red cabbage.
    Slow Cooker Red Cabbage (German Style)

  • Overhead image of Halloween pasta salad in a dish.
    Halloween Pasta Salad with Spooky Mushroom Skulls

  • Pumpkin steel cut oats risotto in a heart shaped bowl, garnished with fresh sage leaves and chopped parsley.
    Slow Cooker Pumpkin Risotto with Steel Cut Oats

  • Stack of pancakes with strawberries on top, drizzled with strawberry sauce. A slice is removed from the stack to reveal the inside.
    Strawberry Banana Pancakes

  • Small crock with prune compote inside it, garnished with small slices of orange and a cinnamon stick.
    Prune Compote with Warm Spices

  • Pot of vegetable stew with soda bread dumplings.
    Vegetable Stew with Irish Soda Bread Dumplings

  • Wrap with chickpeas, lettuce, tomato and onion, cut in half, on a plate with celery and carrot sticks.
    Buffalo Chickpea Wrap with Avocado Lime Ranch Dressing

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