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Transform Your Thanksgiving Leftovers With These Recipes

Tired of turkey sandwiches? Try these recipes to repurpose your Thanksgiving leftovers.

By Maddie Augustin

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How to Cook With Wine

Using the right wine can deepen flavor, tenderize ingredients, and add acidity, sweetness, or umami to your cooking. Learn more.

By Susan Pagani

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10 Recipes for a Healthier School Lunchbox

Unhappy with questionable school lunch fare — or just looking for some healthy noontime options? Here are some lunch ideas and recipes you and your kids can feel good about.

By Experience Life Staff

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How to Cook With Tea

Discover how tea can enhance your cooking — from tenderizing meats to enhancing barbecue sauce, replacing vanilla in your baking, and even creating a zingy martini.

By Susan Pagani

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How to Cook With Coffee

Discover how coffee can enhance your cooking — from braising meats to creating robust flavor in your chili and folding into your pastry creams.

By Susan Pagani

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How to Cook With Beer

Discover how beer can level up your cooking — from tenderizing meats to enhancing sauces, baking, and even sourdough starters.

By Susan Pagani

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Live to 100 — One Recipe at a Time

Blue Zones researcher and Netflix’s Live to 100 host Dan Buettner shares recipes from his new book, The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals: 100 Recipes to Live to 100.

By Dan Buettner

Cooking & Food Food Culture

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4 Fall Recipes Using Canned Pumpkin

Crack open a can of pumpkin and make these sweet and savory fall recipes, including Pumpkin Butter Chicken and Pumpkin Halwa.

By Mish Sen

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5 Hearty Mains Featuring Cruciferous Veggies

Cruciferous vegetables like bok choy, broccoli, and cabbage are packed with vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. These recipes feature them at the center of your plate.

By Kate Morgan

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Level Up Your Cooking With Beer, Tea, Coffee, and Other Flavorful Liquids

Coffee, tea, wine, beer, and even pickle juice can add flavor and complexity to some of your favorite dishes. Here's how.

By Susan Pagani

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Environmental Working Group (EWG) Releases 2025 “Dirty Dozen” and “Clean Fifteen” Lists

Here are the most contaminated — and cleanest — fruits and veggies.

By Arielle Patin

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

alternative milks

5 Dairy-Free Milks to Try Now

Tired of the same old almond milk? Try these nondairy alternatives made with walnuts, pistachios, pecans, oats — and bananas!

By Experience Life Staff

Cooking & Food Product Reviews

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5 Things to Pay Attention to in Dairy-Free Milk

The nondairy milk aisle can be overwhelming. Cut through the confusion with this advice.

By Stephanie Soucheray

Cooking & Food Nutrition Tips

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5 Recipes That Are Fresh, Flavorful, and Full of Herbs

These nutritious recipes make fresh herbs the star of the show.

By Kate Morgan

diy ice cream alternatives

5 Healthy DIY Alternatives to Ice Cream

These refreshing summer desserts don’t require any special equipment — but they’ll give you that ice-cream feeling with whole-foods ingredients.

By Maddie Augustin

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5 Recipes to Help Fight Candida

These recipes feature plenty of plants, lean protein, gluten-free whole grains, and other ingredients that help fight candida overgrowth.

By Kate Morgan

Cooking & Food Gut Health

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How 7 LifeCafe Experts Mix-and-Match to Build Their Perfect Shake

Eyeing the create-your-own shake option on the LifeCafe menu? Take inspiration from these team members’ go-to orders.

By Callie Fredrickson

Cooking & Food Membership

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6 Food Swaps to Try at the Grocery Store

If you’re always buying the same few things at the grocery store, try these swaps.

By Camille Berry

Cooking & Food Mindful Eating

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4 Vegetarian Recipes That Will Change the Way You See Mushrooms

With their earthy flavor, meaty texture, and wealth of nutritional value, these meatless recipes are sure to satisfy.

By Maddie Augustin

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5 Anti-Inflammatory Recipes

Soothe systemic inflammation with these recipes featuring nutritious foods like fatty fish, cruciferous vegetables, berries, and more.

By Robin Asbell

Cooking & Food Inflammation

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What Are the Best Heart-Healthy Foods?

Experts share which ingredients they keep in their heart-healthy pantries — and which foods they try to avoid.

By Lauren David

Cooking & Food Heart & Cardiovascular Health