Easy Healthy Summer Dinners for the Family

If your family is like most, then summertime is a busy time of the year. Keeping the kids occupied with fun activities while still trying to maintain some normalcy at work can be a tough challenge – but it doesn’t mean it’s ok to sacrifice your health, which is why you should invest in some easy healthy summer dinners for the entire family.

You can still have fun, get work done, and eat healthily. You simply need to find recipes that are both delicious and easy. To help you out, we’ve got a few ideas we think you will love.

Balsamic Grilled Steak Salad with Peaches

A little bit of sweet, a little bit of savory. The balsamic grilled steak salad with peaches is simple, filling yet light, and it brings together flavors you may have never otherwise tried. It includes a lightly grilled marinated steak (using vinegar, garlic, and brown sugar), peppery arugula, sliced peaches, and crumbled feta. Top off with a dressing made of olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. That’s it!

Basil Avocado Shrimp Salad Wraps & Sweet Potato Chips

For those trying to watch their carbs, lettuce wraps are a great way to indulge in delicious foods without all the extra. Just like your traditional shrimp salad, the basil avocado shrimp salad wrap with sweet potato chips includes flavors of basil and avocado in addition to your grape tomatoes and red onion. Serve in butterhead or romaine lettuce as a wrap.

To make it feel more like a traditional meal, make a side of sweet potato chips by baking thinly-sliced sweet potatoes in the oven until crispy.

Taco Tomatoes

About those carbs… What if we told you that you could have tacos without the tortilla and without sacrificing flavor? Sounds like a great idea? This is where taco tomatoes come in. We’ve got taco meat, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, or anything else you like on your taco – all stuffed in a tomato.

Beefsteak tomatoes work best for this recipe due to their hardiness and stuffable size. Cook up your meat with taco seasoning, and then add it to your wedged tomato with all the toppings. Delish!

Caramelized Tofu Lettuce Wraps

Tofu is one of those things that not everyone understands how to cook. But when you find the right recipe, even carnivores will find pleasure in consuming some tasty tofu. And this right here, the caramelized tofu lettuce wrap, is the go-to summer recipe.

Using a block of firm tofu, you will want to cook it up on a mixture of dark brown sugar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, and a few more. Once it reaches that caramelized appearance, pile it on some butterhead (or romaine) lettuce and top with chopped roasted peanuts, cilantro, and lime wedges. The flavor is unbelievable.

Pineapple Bun Burger

Think tropical, Hawaiian escape. Think burger on a pineapple bun, or a pineapple bun burger. And really – it’s just like it sounds. It really is a burger with all the fixins’ – a beef patty formed with seasonings and grilled to perfection, topped with pepper jack cheese, crispy bacon, red onion, and lettuce.

Grill two slices of pineapple and use one to stack the burger and toppings on and the other as the top bun. The combination of sweet and tart yet spicy and savory is sure to delight your taste buds. Plus, no bun means no unnecessary carbs!

Honey-Lime Tilapia and Corn Foil Pack

Have you ever cooked fish in a foil packet? Not only is it simple and fast to do, but it makes for easy cleanup, too. All you have to do is wrap up your fish and any seasoning into one foil package and place it on the grill. When it’s done, you’ve got dinner.

For this recipe of honey-lime tilapia with a corn foil pack, you add your tilapia to a foil packet and grill it to perfection. Within the foil, the fish remains juicy and tender. Add some honey, lime, and corn to the finished product for a refreshing summer dish.

Cheeseburger Cabbage Wraps

Ok, if the pineapple wasn’t your cup of tea, perhaps cabbage is. That’s right – cabbage. When used one leaf at a time, it makes a great, sturdy option to wrap your burger and keep it all intact as a cheeseburger cabbage wrap.

There’s just one catch – you need a big head of cabbage, so you know its leaves will be big enough to wrap the burger, plus the lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, cheese, bacon, and whatever else your heart desires.

Shrimp & Mango Salad

Summertime salads are always a delight. Filling, light, and full of flavor. You won’t find anything less than that with a shrimp and mango salad, either. A combination of raw napa cabbage sliced super thin with or without a little romaine. Add some lightly seasoned grilled shrimp, sweet mango chunks, red onion, and avocado.

For the dressing to top your salad, you will need lime zest, lime juice, olive oil, cilantro, honey, jalapeno for a little kick–and a little avocado if you want.

California Grilled Chicken

If you are looking for something a little more hearty than a salad, this California grilled chicken can help. Fire up the grill and cook up your chicken (after marinating it in Italian seasoning). Top it with fresh mozzarella, a slice of zucchini, and a slice of tomato. Then, follow with a balsamic glaze.

This is a great dish to serve with a chilled glass of Chardonnay or Blanc de Sauvignon from the wine cooler.

Zucchini Bun Hot Dogs

Hot dogs are famous in the summer. And they shine at every outdoor BBQ throughout the country. And since eating healthy doesn’t mean giving up everything you love, you just find great-tasting alternatives. In this instance, zucchini buns.

Hollow out zucchini, grill it, and sit your hot dog neatly in its hollowed-out space. This way, you don’t feel like you are missing out.

Eggplant Steaks

Vegetables are good for your body, red meat – not so much. Eggplant steaks allow you to have a steak made of eggplant rather than the real thing. But, if we are being honest, as long as it is cooked right – you are going to enjoy this meal so much you won’t care that your steak was replaced with eggplant.

Slice your eggplant into steak-size slices. Grill it up and top with tomato, and fresh mozzarella, then drizzle with a balsamic glaze.

Enjoy Easy Healthy Summer Dinners this Season

Summer will be over before you know it. So as you continue to enjoy all the season brings, enjoy these healthy meals, too!

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