Some healthy and light snacks you can make are Strawberry Spinach Salad and avocado toast with radish. For the strawberry spinach salad, you need fresh spinach, strawberries, feta cheese, walnuts, and balsamic dressing. To prepare the dish you need to wash and dry your strawberries and spinach then slice your strawberries into a desired size. Washing all the fruits and vegetables ensures a cleaner and fresher taste. Mix into a bowl, strawberries, spinach, and then top with feta and walnuts. For the final topping, drizzle balsamic dressing and serve. For Avocado toast with radish, you need: a slice of bread, or more if you plan on making more, ½ avocado, 2-3 radishes, and salt and pepper. If you want, you can also put in lemon juice and red pepper flakes. First toast your bread to your liking, then in a bowl mash the avocado, add your selected spices and toppings, then spread the mixture on the toast, and after that you place then radish slices on top.  

For a nice meal, you can make lemon herbal chicken with asparagus. For this recipe you need: 2 chicken breasts ,1 bunch asparagus, 2 tbsp olive oil, 2 cloves garlic (minced), 1 lemon, Salt & pepper and optional ingredients are Italian seasoning or however you’d regularly season your meats. First, you need to preheat the oven to 400 degrees and while the oven preheats you place your chicken and asparagus on baking sheet or pan with nonstick spray. Drizzle your selected olive oil all over everything and then add your garlic, salt, pepper, and seasoning, and squeeze lemon juice over top. Then bake for 20-25 minutes.  Serve warm and add more seasoning and lemon if you want.   

A dessert you can make for a nice tart and fresh taste are lemon bars, a sweet treat you can make on a spring afternoon  You need for the crust: 1 cup flour, ½ cup butter, and ¼ cup sugar then for the filling you need 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp flour, and finally ¼ cup lemon juice.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees and let it heat up, while the oven is heating cream together your sugar and butter, then mix flour for the crust in a bowl until crumbly; not all pushed together. After its crumbly press into a pan and bake for 15 minutes till the crust is golden brown. In another bowl, while the crust is baking, mix eggs, sugar, flour, and lemon juice until the filling is liquid. After the crust is golden brown, take it out, don’t wait for it to cool, then pour the filling over the crust. Bake another until the filling is firm and not sloshing around; the filling on top should be a consistency of Jello. Let it cool all the way, it shouldn’t be warm, but it should be cool. Then for the last step, cut into squares or, however, you please then serve. 

All these recipes are good to make for the spring and some into the summer. From quick snacks to full meals, these recipes make it easier to eat healthier without feeling like a chore. In the end, cooking in spring is about enjoying food that feels fresh, simple, and alive.