The {Healthy} Food Fight

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It really impresses me when an insurance company tries to do something right. My life sometimes feels like it revolves around insurance, and not just when I’m paying medical bills. Winking smile As a dietitian, I’m constantly fighting for insurance companies to cover nutrition services. Not to mention my husband works for an insurance company. So we pretty much breathe insurance over here.

I don’t need to tell you that prevention is the best medicine. Eating healthy can not only prevent disease, in can completely turn it around. That’s why it makes me a little bit too excited to see an insurance company encouraging the nation to eat well. That’s what Aetna is doing with it’s Healthy Food Fight campaign.

I don’t know about you, but when I hear the words “food fight”, all I can think about is that scene from Hook. This isn’t exactly that kind of fun. Winking smile

hook food fight

The Healthy Food Fight campaign is a way to encourage Americans to eat healthy, and to show them that it’s not that hard to do. Bobby Flay partnered up with the team to provide some easy, healthy recipes, as well as a series of 10 second healthy eating and cooking tips. I love the idea that someone can make an improvement to their health in 10 seconds.

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The food fight website also has  a tool to help you rate your recipes, based on how healthy they are. Think you have a healthy recipe people will love? Enter it into their recipe contest! The winners get to go cook for Bobby Flay & get the chance to win $10,000 in groceries from recipe.com.

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Getting to meet Bobby Flay is enough reason to enter. Winking smile I thought about coming up with a new recipe for the contest, but in the end, I went with one of my favorite standbys: black bean pineapple enchiladas. They’re easy, they’re full of fiber, they’re low-fat and vegan, and everybody who eats them loves them.

black bean pineapple enchilads

So go enter your own recipe, or vote for mine. You can also join She Speaks for a twitter party tomorrow night for a chance to win some more goodies:

#SSFoodFight Recipe Swap Party Details
When: Thursday, September 15th
Time: 8pm EST
Hashtag: #SSFoodFight
RSVP: http://bit.ly/PMTWT

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What’s your favorite healthy recipe?