Looking for a fun new recipe to take to your 4^th of July barbecue? Try this recipe below to switch things up and add a twist to your typical watermelon.

Watermelon Fruit Pizza

Recipe adapted fromEatingwell.com

 

Ingredients

• ½ cup plain low fat Greek yogurt
• 1 teaspoon honey
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large round slices of watermelon (about 1 inch thick), cut from the center of the watermelon
• 2/3 cup sliced strawberries
• ½ cup halved blackberries
• 2 tablespoons torn fresh mint leaves

 

Preparation

1. Combine yogurt, honey, and vanilla extract in a small bowl.
2. Spread ¼ cup yogurt mixture over each slice of watermelon. Cut each slice into 8 wedges. Top with strawberries, black berries, and mint.

It’s that time of year again! The Holiday season is full of lots of food, love, and family. It is also a time for exchanging gifts with your loved ones. To help you find the perfect gift for the loved ones if your life, we have picked our top 5 RD approved gifts.

Infusion Water Bottle

Staying hydrated is a key component of living a healthful life. Often times, drinking water

throughout the day falls to the end of the to do list. Keeping a water bottle with you at all times can increase your water intake throughout the day. We know water can get boring though. These infusion water bottles help jazz up your water and keep it exciting.

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Hydroflask

Pretty much anything from Hydroflask would be a perfect gift. This company makes water bottles, coffee mugs, beer mugs, and food containers that are insulated to keep the food/beverage either icy cold of steaming hot. These containers come in all sizes and fun colors!

**RD Trick: use the smaller containers (designed for coffee) to keep your smoothie cold and in it’s original consistency all day long!**

Check out everything Hydroflask has to offer here!

Food Pun Wall Art

I do-nut know about you, but I think food puns are so funny and so cute! Etsy makes food pun items in all forms (wall prints, coffee mugs, tea towels, etc.). I personally think the wall prints make great decorationsfor the kitchen!

Click here to find food pun gifts.

Snack Box Subscription

Monthly box subscriptions are becoming more and more popular these days and they now make these monthly surprise boxes for food lovers! How it works, for a monthly fee, these companies will send you a box of a variety of healthy snacks. The items in the box will change each month and will be a surprise. This is a fun way to try new foods that you may not ordinarily pick up at the grocery store!

Click here to see a list of the top 13 box subscription companies.

Gift Certificate for a fresh meal ingredient delivery service

Cooing at home saves money, enables us to have more control over the food that we put into our bodies, and can be a fun activity to do with your family or friends. However, we all know that sometimes everything associated with cooking at home (making a grocery list, grocery shopping, preparing the ingredients, etc.) can take some of the fun out of cooking and make the fast food restaurant down the street a lot more appealing. Luckily, there are many meal delivery services, which make cooking at home a lot more convenient and would make for a great gift for anybody in your life!

There are several meal delivery services (Google to see which are available in your area) but click here to see one of the many options.