Spinach dip can be an excellent appetizer for your hungry guests waiting for more serious foods. Suitable for parties, good for family festive dinners or for any other occasion when people meet to enjoy a meal together, a spinach dip can also be a healthy recipe, if you choose your ingredients wisely and if you make sure to serve it with healthy foods such as raw vegetables. The most common way of serving dips, which is with pita pieces, bread bowls, crackers or tortilla chips is not the healthiest of all. Bell peppers, celery or carrots nicely sliced will also make a tasty combination, and it will surely be a much healthier one. You can always use raw vegetables as a base for serving other dips and spreads such as the beetroot dip we've previously given you the recipe for. 

Vegetable soup is the generic name for thousand soup recipes. If you’re creative, you can experience new flavors and tastes each time you prepare it, by using different spices and vegetable mixes. Depending on the season, you can replace some veggies with others, you can add beef or chicken broth to it, you can even add a nice, big pork chop inside it (although this may not be the healthiest combination of all).

Here’s a vegetable soup recipe you can cook all year round, because what you can’t find fresh in some seasons, will surely be available frozen and ready-cut in small pieces. Of course, fresh is always nicer, yet a frozen vegetable mix can save you some time when you’re in a hurry but still want to cook some healthy meal.

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Serving: 4-6 people