Cancer fighting foods play a huge role in the life and wellness of a cancer patient. These easy, healthy recipes can help your body get well and stay well!

If you have been following this site for a while, the chances are good that you’ve heard me mention the Little Red Door Cancer Agency and their nutrition education Door to Wellness cooking classes. I have been a volunteer there for a quite a while now.

All of the recipes made in the Door to Wellness classes focus on the use of cancer fighting foods, and they’re budget friendly, too. During each class, 15-20 of the clients create a meal together using healthy, budget friendly, easy-to-find cancer fighting foods, then they share the meal with the other clients after class.

Everyone sits down to eat the meal together. It’s nice for the clients to be around other people who are fighting similar battles, and it’s a friendly, encouraging, fun group of people.

The topic of cancer fighting foods has really hit home lately, because my mom was recently diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments. I’ve been helping her to understand what cancer fighting foods are the healthiest for her to be eating while she’s receiving chemo. It’s been an eye-opening experience, and I am glad that I can be here to help her fight this battle.

*UPDATE* – Sadly, my mother passed away unexpectedly on April 30, 2016, just before this post was scheduled to be published.

Here are links to several of the recipes that we’ve made in the Door to Wellness classes lately. I hope you’ll click over and print them out and/or Pin them to your favorite healthy recipes Pinterest board.

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Chinese Chicken Cabbage Salad with Peanut Sauce is a healthier, more affordable version of your favorite Chinese takeout food.

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Minestrone Soup isn’t just filled with cancer fighting foods. It’s perfect to help cure the common cold, too!

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Skinny Lasagna is hearty comfort food without the guilt!

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Healthy Veggie Pasta Salad is one of my favorite lunch recipes.

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The clients really enjoyed the Steelhead Trout with Mango and Black Bean Salsa.

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Eggs are one of the best cancer fighting foods, and eggs are in all of these quiche recipes!

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This Greek Chicken Bake is easy to make and it tastes delicious. Tomatoes have Lycopene, another one of the great cancer fighting foods.

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Whole Wheat Pizza with White Beans and Spinach isn’t a typical pizza, but it sure was a favorite for many of the clients!

Do you have any favorite cancer fighting foods?

Let me know what they are in the comments below this post! Feel free to share links to your favorite healthy recipes online, too.

 

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