53: Heart-Healthy Valentine's Day Recipes

Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and we’ve got you, your bae, and your HEART – covered! According to surveys, Americans spent a whopping 41% on a special celebration or dinner at home in 2021. While eating out is fun, cooking in can be so much more romantic and healthier.

Our guest, Chef Mareya Ibrahim, “The Fit Foodie,” is a nationally recognized food safety and clean eating expert, a television chef, lifestyle nutrition expert, author of Eat Like You Give A Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive, and founder of and founder of Grow Green Industries. She’s dishing up heart-healthy recipes and dessert ideas. Don’t worry if you’re new to cooking, or intimated behind the apron – she shares easy-peasy secrets that will have your love swooning! Chef Mareya shares the KISS approach to cooking, what color foods you should be eating for heart health, how you are either upgrading or downgrading with every bite you take, and healthy swaps for your kitchen – including a produce wash that removes up to 99.9% of pesticides, chemicals, and residues.