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Healthy Dinner Ideas – 15+ Healthy Recipes For All Diets

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These healthy dinner ideas are easy, healthy, and very tasty recipes that you can make for a simple dinner or to impress your guests.

You’ll find my best keto, healthy, vegan, or gluten-free dinner options. All you have to do is to pick what’s best for you!

15+ Healthy Dinner Ideas

What Are Healthy Dinner Ideas?

Healthy Dinners are delicious recipes made with classic, wholesome ingredients that are fulfilling and simple instructions.

They are healthy dinner options because none of them are loaded with sugar, complicated, or refined ingredients.

But these recipes don’t skimp on taste and flavor!

So choose your cuisine, pick between one course, two courses, or three courses, and get ready to cook something delicious!

Why You Need Healthy Dinner Recipes

These healthy dinner ideas are some of my favorite dinner recipes.

You’ll find a combination of keto-friendly, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, diabetic-friendly, and nut-free recipes.

Most of these recipes can be made in less than 40 minutes, cooking included so you won’t spend your evening in the kitchen.

They are dinner ideas that the whole family and your guest will love, and I’m sure they’ll ask for the recipe!

1. Healthy Keto Dinner Ideas

Summer BBQ Keto Dinner

If you need a quick Barbecue-friendly keto dinner that you can eat with your finger, combine my Zucchini Boats with my keto chicken nuggets.

stuffed zucchini boats recipe
Keto Stuffed Zucchini with Ground Beef
4.96 from 233 votes
An easy keto stuffed zucchini recipe with ground beef, taco seasoning for a healthy low-carb taco night.
4.1g
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Keto Chicken Nuggets
4.98 from 449 votes
Juicy, crispy almond flour parmesan Keto Chicken Nuggets, perfect to enjoy fast-food-style food at home on your keto diet!
3.1g
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Keto Cheesecake (Key Lime)
4.89 from 245 votes
This easy, refreshing Key Lime Keto Cheesecake is a delicious recipe for a low-carb dessert to make and remake!
5.6g
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Keto Chinese Dinner

To make your own Panda Express-style dinner, you can make my Keto Orange Chicken. It taste just like classic orange chicken without the carbs.

I love to make it with my coconut cauliflower rice. There’s something about this that turn any Chinese Keto dinner into a real experience.

Keto Orange Chicken Recipe
Keto Orange Chicken
4.95 from 470 votes
This Keto Orange Chicken recipe tastes like your traditional Chinese restaurant takeaway, without the sugar or carbs! Sticky pieces of fried chicken, coated in low-carb keto orange sauce!
5.8g
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Coconut Keto Rice
Coconut Cauliflower Rice
4.99 from 257 votes
An easy 4-ingredient Coconut Cauliflower rice for a low-carb Asian style side dish.
2.8g
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Ginger Shot For Weight Loss and Immunity
Ginger Shot
4.95 from 68 votes
These Ginger Shots are ultra-concentrated ginger juice perfect for boosting immunity and reducing inflammation. They are ten times cheaper than store-bought but packed with the same health properties and no sugar added.
2.4g
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Healthy Southern Comfort Dinner

For a banger of a keto dinner with all the flavors of the Amercian south, combine my much-loved Keto Jambalaya with a hearty smoked cauliflower.

The best Keto Jambalaya recipe
Keto Jambalaya recipe
4.98 from 420 votes
This keto Jambalaya recipe is an easy one-pan Spanish, French-Inspired dinner combining boneless chicken breast pieces, sausage, and shrimps cooked in a rich Cajun Spices tomato sauce.
5g
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Smoked Cauliflower Recipe
Smoked Cauliflower
4.94 from 290 votes
A tender smoked whole cauliflower with a crusty smoked layer and soft cauliflower flesh, perfect as a healthy low-carb side dish or light dinner. This smoked cauliflower recipe works with charcoal barbecues, electric barbecues, and even in your oven! It's also vegan, gluten-free, and keto-approved.
3.7g
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Devilled Egg Salad
Deviled Egg Salad
4.99 from 180 votes
This Deviled Egg Salad is a high-protein egg salad with crunchy vegetables and a creamy mayonnaise paprika dressing.
2.4g
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Keto Mexican Dinner

For an authentic Mexican food taste without the carbs, I make my Corn Tortilla that I fill with Guacamole, Salsa, and chicken cooked in my taco spices, and I add a side of Beef Empanadas.

Low Carb Corn Tortilla recipe
Low-Carb Corn Tortillas
4.98 from 666 votes
Easy low-carb keto corn tortillas with the most flexible texture and corn tortillas flavor without the carbs!
3g
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4-Ingredient Guacamole Recipe
4.98 from 423 votes
This 4-Ingredient Guacamole Recipe is a simple avocado dip with only four ingredients. A creamy guacamole, perfect for dipping tortilla chips. 
1.3g
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Keto Salsa Recipe
5 from 204 votes
An easy keto salsa recipe perfect for keto Mexican food night and to dip keto tortilla chips.
2.2g
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Chicken Taco Seasoning
4.99 from 190 votes
Learn how to make your own Chicken Taco Seasoning at home in 5 minutes using only wholesome spices, no sugar, and no additives.
0.5g
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Keto Beef Empanadas
4.95 from 369 votes
A crispy, buttery keto empanada dough filled with juicy ground beef with spicy flavors.
2.3g
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Keto snowball cookies
Keto Snowball Cookies
4.87 from 613 votes
These Keto Snowball Cookies are melt-in-your-mouth buttery, flakey Mexican weddingg cookies with small pieces of pecans and covered with sugar-free powdered sweetener. Bonus, they are gluten-free and only contain 1.2 grams of net carbs per serving!
1.2g
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Winter Keto Dinner Idea

For a heart-warming winter dinner, I recommend combining my keto chicken marsala with my French Green Beans.

Dipping the green beans in the creamy Marsala mushroom sauce is the best. And if you’re still hungry, add a French Onion Soup!

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Keto Chicken Marsala
4.98 from 248 votes
An easy comforting dinner with creamy Keto Chicken cooked in Marsala mushroom sauce.
5.9g
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AUTHENTIC FRENCH GREEN BEAN recipe from my mum sauteed in olive oils with almonds, shallots, garlic and deglazed with lemon juice. An easy side dish for Holidays, Christmas or Thanksgiving. Dairy free + gluten free + vegan.
French Green Beans
4.97 from 320 votes
Authentic French Green Bean recipe from sauteed in olive oils with almonds, shallots, garlic, and deglazed with lemon juice. An easy side dish for any occasion. Dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and low-carb.
4.7g
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Low carb French onion soup
Keto French Onion Soup
4.98 from 409 votes
This Keto French Onion Soup is the keto and gluten-free version of the popular French onion soup.
6.1g
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Keto Italian Dinner

For a keto Italian dinner, start with Keto Spaghetti And Meatballs and top it up with my delicious Focaccia.

Keto Spaghetti and Meatballs
4.98 from 320 votes
This Keto Spaghetti and Meatballs meal uses Wonder Noodles. They have zero net carbs and zero calories.
6.4g
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Keto Focaccia Bread Gluten free focaccia with almond flour
Keto Focaccia Recipe
5 from 222 votes
This easy Keto Focaccia Recipe is a copycat of the classic Italian Focaccia bread without the carbs, made with a combination of keto flours. The texture is crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, with a lovely garlic rosemary flavor. 
4.4g
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keto friendly biscotti
Keto Biscotti Recipe with Almond Flour
4.91 from 573 votes
An easy, crunchy keto biscotti recipe with whole almonds and dipped into sugar-free chocolate.
3.2g
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Healthy Keto Asian Dinner

This is the keto version of your classic Asian takeaway dinner. Black Pepper Angus Steak with Keto Rice.

Enjoy the same taste without the carbs.

Black Pepper Angus Steak Stir Fry Recipe
Black Pepper Angus Steak
5 from 208 votes
This Black Pepper Angus Steak is an easy 15-minute Chinese Beef Stir fry for a quick dinner that reminds you of your favorite Chinese restaurant's black pepper beef dish.
5.9g
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Cauliflower Rice
Keto Rice
4.99 from 265 votes
An easy 3-ingredient Keto Rice recipe perfect as a keto side dish to meat, fish, or curry.
2.3g
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2. Vegan Dinner Ideas

Healthy Italian Dinner

For a simple, healthy Italian vegan dinner, I recommend combining my Zucchini Noddles with my vegan bread loaf. The bread is made with healthier flour: almond flour and coconut flour.

Keto Zucchini Noodles with Pesto
60+ Mouthwatering Low-Carb Vegetarian Recipes
4.99 from 342 votes
These 60+ Mouthwatering Low-Carb Vegetarian Recipes shows you how you can make healthy breakfast, dinners, lunches, snacks, or desserts without many carbs.
4.2g
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THE BEST KETO BREAD WITHOUT EGGS #ketobread #keto #egglessbread #almondflourbread #bestketobread #best #psylliumhusk #easy #vegan
Vegan Coconut And Almond Flour Bread
4.87 from 922 votes
The best low-carb bread recipe with coconut flour and almond flour but without eggs!
3.6g
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Healthy Indian Dinner

For a delicious healthy Indian dinner, I recommend combining the following recipes. The cauliflower rice, naan bread, and vegan curry are the perfect match.

Together, they taste delicious and will impress your guests.

Cauliflower Rice
Cauliflower Rice
4.99 from 265 votes
An easy 3-ingredient Cauliflower Rice recipe perfect as a keto side dish to meat, fish, or curry.
2.3g
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KETO NAAN BREAD
Naan Bread
4.93 from 571 votes
This Healthy Naan Bread is a simple vegan Indian Bread recipe that ticks all diets: Vegan, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Paleo, and Gluten-free.
3.5g
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Vegan Bok Choy Curry
4.99 from 266 votes
This Bok Choy Curry is an easy curry recipe packed with plant-based protein, delicious Indian spices flavor, and comforting coconut cream.
8.6g
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Healthy French Vegan Dinner

This healthy French dinner is made of several typically French recipes. The combination of the mustard Brussels Sprout with the French Fries is perfect.

Add to that a healthier French baguette to finish the sauce, and you’ll be in Paris.

Brussel sprouts with mustard sauce
Brussels Sprouts with Mustard Sauce
4.99 from 369 votes
Roasted Brussels sprouts with mustard sauce. Crispy baked Brussels sprouts covered with a creamy shallots mustard sauce.
6.5g
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Keto baguette recipe
Healthy French Baguette
4.94 from 491 votes
This Healthy French Baguette recipe is a thin, crusty French bread 100% egg-free and dairy-free with a real bread flavor but fewer carbs than a classic French stick.
2.8g
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Rutabaga French Fries
4.97 from 278 votes
Oven-baked keto French Fries with Rutabaga. A low-carb healthy French fries alternative recipe to regular fries.
6.2g
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3. Healthy Gluten-Free Dinner Ideas

Healthy Pasta Dinner

My first choice is to make a delicious Steak Alfredo Fettuccine with its Marinade. The pasta are gluten-free pasta, and the steak is cooked to perfection.

Steak Alfredo
Steak Alfredo
5 from 218 votes
This easy Steak Alfredo Fettuccine recipe combines creamy garlic, Alfredo sauce, fettuccine egg pasta, and grilled steak. A quick 30-minute Family dinner.
8.1g
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3 ingredient Steak Marinade
3-Ingredient Steak Marinade
4.99 from 221 votes
This easy 3-Ingredient Steak Marinade is the perfect combination of ingredients to enhance any cut of beef.
3.4g
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Peanut Butter Protein Cookies
Peanut Butter Protein Cookies
5 from 229 votes
These easy Keto Peanut Butter Protein Cookies are crispy, crunchy protein breakfast cookies perfect for eating after a workout or as a high-protein on-the-go breakfast. Plus, these protein cookies contain no added sugar and a huge 11 grams of protein to keep you full for hours! 
7g
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Healthy Pizza Dinner

Then, one of my family’s favorite dinners – and many others’ – is a good pizza.

Make the following Buffalo Chicken Pizza to feed a crowd! With a gluten-free pizza base, it’s absolutely delicious!

Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
5 from 223 votes
This Buffalo Chicken Pizza is a delicious quick and easy homemade pizza for chicken lovers with the zing of hot sauce.
3.7g
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4. Healthy Classic Dinners

Classic Healthy French Dinner

A classic French Dinner combines savory and sweet. It starts with vegetables,

Ratatouille Recipe
Ratatouille Recipe
5 from 174 votes
This easy Ratatouille recipe is the easiest French dinner. A delicious summer vegetable stew with Mediterranean flavors, perfect as a vegetarian side dish or light dinner.
[add_post_diets] 5.6g
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Florentine Quiche Spinach Mushroom Quiche recipe
Quiche Florentine
4.99 from 198 votes
This Quiche Florentine is a flakey, buttery, quiche crust filled with spinach and mushrooms.
[add_post_diets] 1.9g
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French Crepes
Crepes Recipe
4.99 from 2236 votes
This Authentic Crepe Recipe makes the same crepes you would eat in Paris. French crêpes are thin, crispy on their sides, and filled with delicious sweet jam or chocolate spread. 
[add_post_diets] 19.4g
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Classic Healthy Italian Dinner

A classic healthy Italian dinner is full of taste, creamy texture, and colors. They are typically made with tomatoes, meat, and vegetables..

Tuscan Chicken Recipe
Tuscan Chicken
5 from 172 votes
This Tuscan Chicken is a healthy dinner with grilled chicken breast cooked in a creamy spinach sauce with sundried tomatoes.
18g
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Eggplant Rollatini
5 from 205 votes
This Eggplant Rollatini recipe is the most delicious eggplant recipe for dinner. A soft, tender eggplant layer filled with ricotta basil filling and cooked in oregano tomato sauce.
8.9g
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Keto Focaccia Bread Gluten free focaccia with almond flour
Focaccia Recipe
5 from 222 votes
This easy Keto Focaccia Recipe is a copycat of the classic Italian Focaccia bread without the carbs, made with a combination of keto flours. The texture is crispy on the outside, soft in the middle, with a lovely garlic rosemary flavor. 
4.4g
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Healthy Summer Dinner

A good healthy summer dinner is made with a good meat like pork or turkey and healthy veggies.

4 ingredient Oven Baked Pork Chops
4-Ingredient Oven-Baked Pork Chops
4.98 from 69 votes
These 4-ingredient Oven-Baked Pork Chops are easy and juicy pieces of porkm perfect as a comforting dinner with a creamy casserole.
6.1g
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Learn how to turn eggplant into the best side dish this summer with this sauteed eggplant recipe. You will make everyone fall in love with these soft, tender, and caramelized pieces of pan-fried eggplant, on your next BBQ party.Learn how to turn eggplant into the best side dish this summer with this sauteed eggplant recipe. You will make everyone fall in love with these soft, tender, and caramelized pieces of pan-fried eggplant, on your next BBQ party.
Sauteed Eggplant
5 from 20 votes
Learn how to turn eggplant into the best side dish this summer with this sauteed eggplant recipe. You will make everyone fall in love with these soft, tender, and caramelized pieces of pan-fried eggplant at your next BBQ party.
7.7g
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This 3-ingredient Chocolate Yogurt recipe is the easiest way to enjoy a high-protein dessert that truly tastes like chocolate pudding. In fact, all you need is 5 minutes to make this easy healthy dessert, and it's easy to make sugar-free, vegan, and gluten-free.
Chocolate Yogurt
5 from 26 votes
This 3-Ingredient Chocolate Yogurt recipe is the easiest way to enjoy a high-protein dessert that truly tastes like chocolate pudding. In fact, all you need is 5 minutes to make this easy healthy dessert, and it's easy to make sugar-free, vegan, and gluten-free.
5.3g
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Healthy Winter Dinner

Making a healthy winter dinner is easy and typically contains slow-cooked casseroles and heart-warming dishes.

3 ingredients Butternut Squash Soup
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
5 from 110 votes
This incredibly easy Roasted Butternut Squash Soup is made with only 3 ingredients for a quick healthy dinner that the whole family loves.
20g
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Broccoli Gratin
Broccoli Gratin
5 from 119 votes
This Broccoli Gratin recipe is an easy, healthy comforting French-inspired dinner that combines steamed broccoli baked in a creamy bechamel sauce.
15.3g
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Blackened Chicken
Blackened Chicken
4.97 from 58 votes
This Blackened Chicken recipe makes soft, tender chicken breast with a spicy black crust made from spices. It's a delicious healthy chicken recipe to serve as a main or to top up a salad.
5.2g
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Quick Healthy Dinner

If you need a quick dinner for weeknights, try this one. It’s the perfect combination of healthy ingredients and quick turnaround for weeknight dinners.

This souffle omelette is the perfect weekend breakfast a light, fluffy omelette with crispy edges and filled with herbs and cheese. Plus, this is a healthy breakfast packed with protein to keep you full for hours and it takes barely 15 minutes to make.
Soufflé Omelette
5 from 13 votes
This Soufflé Omelette is the perfect weekend breakfast, a light, fluffy omelette with crispy edges and filled with herbs and cheese. This healthy breakfast is packed with protein to keep you full for hours and takes under 15 minutes to make.
2.5g
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These Roasted Zucchini recipe is the most easy side dish recipe ever packed with summer flavors. Plus, it's low-carb, vegan and gluten-free so all the family can enjoy it.These Roasted Zucchini recipe is the most easy side dish recipe ever packed with summer flavors. Plus, it's low-carb, vegan and gluten-free so all the family can enjoy it.
Roasted Zucchini
5 from 22 votes
This Roasted Zucchini recipe is an easy side dish recipe packed with summer flavors. Plus, it's low-carb, vegan, and gluten-free, so the whole family can enjoy it.
3.8g
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Japanese Crepes
Japanese Crepes
4.94 from 44 votes
These Japanese Crepes are thin, large pancakes served in a cone shape and are perfect to eat as an on-the-go sweet treat. They are filled with freshly whipped cream, berries and chocolate sauce for a delicious sweet dessert.
27.7g
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Best Healthy Meal Prep Dinner

When you need to prepare several days of dinners at once, you need to try this meal. It’s made with just a two recipes for many dinners and desserts.

Keto Cheeseburger Casserole
Cheeseburger Casserole
4.97 from 432 votes
This Keto Cheeseburger Casserole is an easy keto meal to fix all your hamburger cravings without the carbs.
3.1g
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Sheet Pan Pancakes
Sheet Pan Pancakes
5 from 58 votes
These Sheet Pan Pancakes are easy family breakfasts for the holidays. Serve pancakes for the whole family in one go with this one-bowl pancake recipe baked in a sheet pan.
17.1g
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the healthiest dinner food?

The healthiest dinner food is a combination of all macro-ingredient groups (about 60% calories from carbs, 20% from fat, 20% from protein, or if you are on a keto diet, about 20% from protein, 70% from fat, and 10% from carbs.
Then it’s essential to include veggies, nuts, seeds, grains, and fruits as much as possible to bring various vitamins, minerals, and omega-3 fatty acids.
It’s also crucial to vary your dinners. Having the very same healthy dinner every nights becomes unhealthy because of the repetition and lack of variety.
The protein in your dinners can come from meat, fish like salmon, seafood like shrimps, or from legumes like black beans or edamame beans.

What is an easily made and healthy dish for dinner?

Easy dinners can be as simple as a black beans soup or a Chicken Bacon Ranch Casserole, but it can also be a Sweet Potato Puree with Cast-Iron Chicken Breast.

What are good easy dinner ideas?

Try any of the dinners above! They are a combination of a main dish with a healthy side dish that bring a good balance of micronutrients and macronutrients.

Can I lose weight by not eating dinner?

Loosing weight is a matter of reducing the total caloric intake. As a result, skipping dinner can theoretically suffice.
However it would be necessary to not balance the intake to other meals.
As a result, most dietitian recommend not skipping meals but rather reducing potion size and including more vegetables and protein.

What healthy dinner can I make?

The best healthy dinner is a balanced combination of about 60% calories from carbs (present in vegetables, pasta, bread, rice, etc.), 20% fat (coming from meat, oil, butter, some vegetables, whole grains, and seeds), and 20% protein (sourced in meat, seafood, fish, legumes).
It also contains various micronutrients like vitamins, minerals and fatty acids.

Carine Claudepierre

About The Author

Carine Claudepierre

Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.

I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet

Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!

All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.

Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.

I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!

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