Healthy Artichoke Dip
This recipe for Healthy Artichoke “Dip” is really more like a Baked Artichoke Casserole. Chunky artichoke quarters are married with *just enough* cheese to hold them together. It will make you rethink artichoke dip in a whole new way.
Welcome to the Good and Good for You™ newsletter, a quick 5-minute read with ideas and info on ways to help improve your life – including a tasty and healthful recipe.
This issue shares:
- 🥫 Best Life Living Tip: Want to order in? Can it!
- 🍽️ Self-Care Strategy: Eating more to weigh less…
- 🇮🇹 Ideas and Inspiration: Fight food insecurity and enter to win a fabulous trip!
- 🙌🏻 Good and Good for You™ Recipe: Healthy Artichoke Dip
Thanks for reading! It’s wonderful to see that it’s really resonating with people. If you’re reading this, you are likely a person who wants a better life. Let’s do it!
So, read on for more — including this Healthy Artichoke Dip. It’s great for game day, parties, and will be super handy this holiday season. Coming in at only 80 calories and 3.25 WW points per serving, you’re going to love it.
Best Life Living Tip
Keeping a smart and healthy pantry of canned goods is a best life living tip.
Seriously? Canned goods as a best life tip? YES. 💯
When you have a decision to make about what to eat, the easiest option often wins. A lot of folks will reach for a delivery app, go out, or make an unhealthy choice. Canned food is budget-friendly, convenient, and can be good and good for you, too.
- Low-sodium black beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, pinto beans, and white beans can be soup, turkey chili, hummus, sweet pepper nachos, quesadillas, and creamy puree in mere minutes.
- Canned tuna and salmon are both high in omega-3s and are great for salads or sandwiches.
- Canned artichokes can be transformed into a casserole or dip, like here, or stitted into Spinach Dip Chicken.
- Canned pumpkin is a fantastic swap for fat like with these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins.
- Canned tomatoes are a must. I generally keep only whole tomatoes. (You can cut but you can’t uncut.)
- Canned green chiles, salsa, and chipotles bring bold flavor, not fat.
It sounds silly to suggest a well-stocked pantry, but treat this tip as a gentle reminder to make it a healthy resource.
Drive-thrus and delivery are costly in more ways than one. Having a well-stocked pantry allows you to create healthy, simple meals in the same time or less than it would take for delivery.
Self-Care Strategy
Eat more to weigh less. How’s that work?
Well, you can pretty much eat a truckload of broccoli.
This Healthy Artichoke Dip came about because I needed an app to take to a tailgate. The first time I made it, I only used one can, and it was good, but I decided I wanted MORE vegetables. The next pass I doubled the number of canned artichokes, and now I LOVE it.
Want an easy way to eat better and feel your best? Start by adding more vegetables, not cutting more things out.
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🥦 Add, don’t restrict. Doubling up on veggies brings color, flavor, and nutrients to every meal.
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🥕 Feel full, not deprived. Vegetables add satisfying volume and fiber that keep you energized longer.
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🥬 Balance naturally. When your plate is half (or more!) vegetables, you naturally eat fewer calorie-dense foods.
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🌽 Eat more, weigh less. This simple, sustainable shift helps you feel nourished and satisfied—while supporting a healthy weight.
It’s an abundance-based approach to self-care: the more vegetables you eat, the better you feel—inside and out.
You can do it!
Click HERE to purchase a “Golden Ticket” to support the Atlanta Community Food Bank
The winner chooses the destination: Tuscany, Cabo, Sedona, or Kentucky Bourbon Experience
Ideas and Inspiration
The Atlanta Community Food Bank is one of the premier food banks in the United States, and I am proud to be an advisory board member. They do an amazing job!
- With every $1 you donate, the Food Bank can provide enough food for up to 3 meals.
Make sure to give them a follow on Instagram and Facebook, and sign up for their newsletter.
Canned Food Drive
The Golden Ticket is part of the Can Can Ball, an annual black-tie event co-hosted by the Atlanta Apartment Association and the Atlanta Community Food Bank for more than 30 years.
Your donation will help support the largest food drive in the US!
The ACFB works with more than 700 community-based nonprofit food distribution partners in metro-Atlanta and north Georgia across 29 counties, including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, and more.
- 1 in 8 in the ACFB service area is food insecure.
- 1 in 5 children in the ACFB service area will go to bed hungry tonight.
- 1 in 10 senior citizens in the ACFB service area is food insecure.
Click HERE to purchase a “Golden Ticket” for only $100.
The winner chooses the destination: Tuscany, Cabo, Sedona, or Kentucky Bourbon Experience
Good and Good for You Living Spotlight
It’s sweatshirt season!! I LOVE my You Can Do It! EcoSmart® Pullover Hoodie Sweatshirt and live in it once it gets cold.
Who doesn’t love a hoodie? I always keep a hoodie in the back of my car – you never know when you might need one on a walk!
This supersoft fleece is made with up to 5% recycled polyester from plastic bottles and is available in grey, white, or blue.
Make it Count
This Healthy Artichoke Dip is great for tailgates, parties, and even as a side dish. It’s a new fave, for sure. Make sure to get artichokes in brine, not oil.
Remember, if you choose what’s Good and Good for You™ most of the time, you’re headed in the right direction! You’ve got this!
For more tips, inspiration, and healthy recipes, please follow me @virginiawillis on Instagram.
I hope you enjoy this easy pantry recipe for Healthy Artichoke Dip. I’m thrilled to have a creamy, cheesy and good-for-you nibble as we head into the holidays. Thanks for reading.
Bon Appétit, Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Healthy Baked Artichoke Dip
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup panko
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 2 cans artichoke hearts in brine rinsed and drained
- 4 ounces Neufchâtel
- 1/4 cup light mayo
- 1/4 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 cloves of garlic grated on microplane
- Pinch cayenne
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F. Combine the panko, parmesan, and paprika in a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the artichoke hearts, Neufchâtel, mayo, yogurt, garlic, and cayenne. Season with freshly ground black pepper.
- Transfer the mixture to a broiler proof casserole dish. Bake until bubbly, about 15 minutes. Increase the temperature to broil and cook until browned, about 3 minutes, depending on the strength of your broiler.
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