25 Healthy Recipes for Your Memorial Day Menu

25 fun, wholesome recipes to make this Memorial Day, including fruit-filled drinks, veggie-loaded salads and mains, the perfect snacks and apps, and nutrient dense desserts!

Warm weather is finally here and I seriously couldn’t be more excited! After a long, gloomy, cold, rainy spring these sunny days are giving me LIFE! I’m so ready for long walks in the woods, days at the beach, grilling dinner outside, and trips out to our favorite farms to stock the chest freezer with local produce for the fall and winter ahead.

And, of course, Memorial Day is the unofficial kick-off of summer, so I figured it was perfect timing to share some of my go-to recipes for brining to backyard barbecues, picnics, potlucks, and the like. These recipes are all easy to make, packed with wholesome ingredients, and total crowd-pleasers that you can try out this weekend and then use all summer long!

Dust off that patio furniture and let’s celebrate the arrival of summer!

Summery Drinks

Raw Honey Lemonade

Watermelon Jalapeno Margaritas

Ginger Honey Lemonade

Blackberry Kombucha Gin Fizz

Easy Apps & Snacks

The Best Salsa Con Queso (that happens to be Vegan)

My Favorite Guacamole

Easy Homemade Salsa

The Best (Vegan) Salsa con Queso

Garlicky Everything Bagel Hummus

Cornmeal Crusted Goat Cheese Jalapeno Poppers

Veggie-Powered Salads & Mains

Grillable BBQ Black Bean Veggie Burgers

Roasted Green Bean & Potato Salad

Strawberry Avocado & Goat Cheese Salad

Feta Pesto Pasta Salad with Arugula and Sun Dried Tomatoes

Purple Cabbage & Apple Slaw with Lemon Vinaigrette

Thai Kale Salad with Peanut Ginger Dressing

Greek Salad Flatbread

White Bean Tortellini Salad with Lemon Basil Vinaigrette

Pesto Caprese Farro Salad

Grillable BBQ Black Bean Veggie Burgers

Greek Chickpea + Feta Veggie Burgers

Crowd-Pleasing Desserts

Cherry & Blueberry Crumb Bars

Peanut Butter Fudge Cereal Bars

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Smore’s Cookie Pie

No-Bake Chocolate Cream Pie

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Sunflower Seed Butter Cookies

Flourless Double Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Coconut Oil Chocolate Chunk Blondies

If you make any of these recipes, be sure to leave a comment below letting me know how they turned out, or take a picture of your Memorial Day spread and share it with me on Instagram so I can see!!

XO,

Chelsea

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