50 New Year's Resolution Eats

A cold, healthy, and refreshing berry smoothie. You won't taste the spinach!

Recipe: Triple Berry Spinach Smoothie

Hearty, chewy barley adds texture, taste, and nutrition to this healthy side dish.

Recipe: Barley with Sautéed Leeks, Peas, and Parsley

This year, revamp party food with recipes that make it easy to have the gang over and keep your resolutions intact. Jazz up purchased hummus with a combination of fresh herbs that add bright flavor to this green dip.

Recipe: Herbed Hummus

Try something new with Brussels sprouts, like this salad with red onion, cilantro, peppers, and avocado in addition to the little cabbages.

Recipe: Marvin Woods's Brussels Sprouts, Red Pepper, and Avocado Salad

Our delicious spin on steak fajitas will work for nearly every budget. Plus, they've got just 327 calories and 10.4 grams of fat (4.7 grams saturated) per serving.

Recipe: Southwestern Steak, Corn, and Black Bean Wraps

The dressing for this light, delicious turkey salad is made with low-fat mayonnaise, yogurt, and chopped herbs.

Recipe: Walnut-Cranberry Turkey Salad

Looking for a lighter lunch? Try this turkey salad wrap instead of a heavy sandwich.

Recipe: Turkey Salad Wrap

"I've been known to throw everything into the blender: cabbage, beans, even raw oats," says Melissa d'Arabian. "Green smoothies are one of my favorite smoothie blends and it also happens to be one of my kids' favorites."

Recipe: Melissa d'Arabian's Green Morning Smoothie

A delicious and healthy wrap makes a great lunchtime treat.

Recipe: Rainbow Veggie Wrap

Instead of buying pricey energy bars, fuel your fitness routine with this great-tasting homemade energy bar recipe. Whether you use these energy bars as a pre-workout snack or to refuel and recover post-workout, they'll give your body what it needs. Best of all, you can make this energy bar in minutes.

Recipe: EatingWell Energy Bars

Feta, spinach, and dill flavor these tofu patties. Slice some lemon wedges and pick up some whole-wheat pita bread to serve with this Greek-inspired meal.

Recipe: Feta and Spinach Couscous Patties

This vibrant salad recipe contrasts flavor, texture, and color — the velvety tuna steak is matched with crisp, peppery watercress and the floral tart-sweetness of blood oranges and aniseed. Blood oranges, available December through March, make the dish especially pretty. If you can't find them, use any oranges that look good.

Recipe: Orange, Watercress, and Tuna Salad

Everyone loves mashed potatoes, but this celery root purée is a worthy competitor.

Recipe: Celery Root Purée

Pears, celery root, carrots, and onion combine in this flavorful fall slaw recipe. Use underripe pears to keep the texture crisp. Cutting the pears and celery root by hand into little matchsticks makes a prettier salad, but go ahead and shred them with a box grater if you're in a hurry.

Recipe: Pear and Celery Root Slaw

This kale-and-spinach soup has a beautiful complexity. It's slightly sweet, with a bright note of lemon and the subtle aromatics of thyme, sage, and garlic. Japanese yams are marvelously flavorful; they have a dark purplish skin and are snow-white inside. Ask for them at your farmers' market or grocery, but if they are unavailable, regular sweet potatoes can be substituted.

Recipe: Green Soup with Yams and Sage

A lunchtime bowl includes white beans and broccoli, two foods high in fiber, which can lower cholesterol and may help prevent type-2 diabetes. Tomatoes bring lycopene to the substantial salad. The ingredients can be prepared the day before and refrigerated.

Recipe: White Bean Salad with Spicy Roasted Tomatoes and Broccoli

Lose weight with this satisfying low-fat breakfast option.

Recipe: Granola-Yogurt Parfait

This muffin-tin baked oatmeal is the perfect morning taste treat.

Recipe: Baked Oatmeal

Loaded with fresh tomatoes, peppers, and cilantro and seasoned with cumin and chile, this shrimp and black bean salad recipe has all the flavors of a great fresh salsa and is a quick and easy no-cook recipe. Serve with tortilla chips or fresh corn tortillas.

Recipe: Zesty Shrimp and Black Bean Salad

Pressing tofu before making this tofu stir-fry recipe gives it a chewy, satisfying texture. Three green peas — sugar snaps, snow peas, and shelling peas — balance it out with brightly flavored crunch. Hoisin — a dark brown, thick, spicy-sweet sauce made from soybeans and a complex mix of spices — gives the stir-fry rich depth of flavor with just one ingredient. Look for it, as well as chile-garlic sauce, in the Asian section of the market.

Recipe: Three-Pea, Cashew, and Tofu Stir-Fry