Healthy Eating and Special Diets

Collection of healthy eating recipes Over 1,000 diet specific recipes - and growing! Whether you are looking for low carb, low fat, or gluten free CDK is the place to start. We also have health specific recipes like diabetic or low sodium recipes.

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View the pictures of some of our favorite healthy eating recipes!

Gluten Free Recipes - CDKitchen Go Gluten Free
Gluten hides in a lot of packaged foods, so try making more of your meals at home. We've got recipes for cakes, muffins, cookies, stuffing and more.

Vegetarian Recipes - CDKitchen Very Vegetarian
If you've nixed meat then these recipes are for you. Both vegetarian and vegan recipes (and everything in between) including tofu fried rice, vegetarian taco dip, and vegan brownies.

Low Fat Recipes - CDKitchen Low In Fat, Not Low In Taste
These tasty low-fat recipes will keep your calories in check. Try our favorites like low-fat chicken enchiladas, almost fat free brownies, or Weight Watcher's au gratin potatoes

Cooking Glossary

Cooking Glossary light: the FDA-approved food-labeling term used to describe a nutritionally altered food with at least 33% less calories, 50% less fat or 50% less sodium than the regular or reference (i.e. FDA standard) food.

mock duck: Made from fresh, organic wheat gluten, a protein folded and pressed to create a chewy, meaty substance that is then glazed and treated as a meat-free alternative to duck in Buddhist and other vegetarian dishes. Available in cans in Asian grocery stores.

Helpful healthy eating Hints

Cooking Tips Lowering the Fat, Cream cheese: In most recipes you can use fat-free cream cheese or blended fat-free cottage cheese instead of regular cream cheese. For recipes where fat content is necessary, try using half regular cream cheese, and half reduced or fat-free cream cheese

Cutting Calories, Tips: When cooking a dish with both vegetables and meat (i.e. in stir frys and stews), reduce the amount of meat by 1/3 and increase the amount of vegetables by 1/3. You will hardly notice!

Cooking article by Josh Gunn Vegetarians Get Gumbo Too
If it's not obvious by now, y'all should know I love to eats-da-meats: chicken, steak, alligator, or snail--if it is seasoned right, I'll put it in my mouth. Okay, well, not everything: I turn up my nose...

Cooking article by Rebecca Michaels Getting Back In the Saddle (Without the Saddlebags)
All right, it's a new year and all. Time to get back on the Stairmaster, eat better, forego dessert--wait! Hold the phone! My friend Lucy recently lamented how she's sick of hearing about how "weight...