We're rounding up our favorite posts from the past year — and today we're looking all the way back to January. We started January with a seriously fresh start: We launched an all-new site design! This was a great way to start the year, and we jumped right into fresh cooking and lighter eating. Here's a look back at 15 of our best posts on eating lighter, packing more vegetables into meals, and making the kitchen a more refreshing place to cook.
LIGHTEN UP!
• 1 10 Easy Ways to Eat More Vegetables Every Day
• 2 Tips for Making Better Smoothies in the Dead of Winter
• 3 Hold the Cake: 10 Light Desserts to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth
• 4 5 Questions to Help You Clear Out Unused Goods in Your Pantry
• 5 Why January Is the Time to Purge Your Kitchen of Unused Tools & Gadgets
LIGHTER RECIPES
• 6 Snack Recipe: Raw Avocado Lime Mousse on Rice Cakes
• 7 Recipe: Roasted Beets with Cumin, Lime, and Mint
• 8 Recipe: Blackened Catfish Fajitas
• 9 Recipe: 3-Ingredient Healthy Ice Cream
• 10 Recipe: Baked Panko Rockfish with Gingery Cabbage
SMART TIPS
• 11 The Rubber Band Trick: How to Keep a Cut Apple Fresh in Your Lunchbox
• 12 Healthy Eating Idea: Double the Vegetables in Any Recipe
• 13 Better Egg Salad: Add an Avocado, Use Less Mayonnaise
• 14 Fast Fix: Five Ideas for Roasted Fish in Fewer Than 30 Minutes
• 15 What Are Your Best Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Diet?
Welcome to The Kitchn's Best of 2012 roundup!
From December 17 through January 1 we are rounding up some of our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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How to Make Easy 3-Ingredient Energy Bars at Home
How to Make Fresh Pasta Dough in the Food Processor
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
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Small Cool Lessons: Discovering Small Space Design Ideas That Really Work
Marisa and Peter's Playfully Eclectic Home
Now if only it were possible to eat in such a way that one doesn't have to make New Year's Resolutions. Oh wait, it is!
To wit: please more healthy and delicious seasonal meals and fewer cookies. Yours is one of the few food sites I didn't unlike ages ago because every single thing was either fried, laden with butter, or some kind of dessert. I'd love a few more healthy food posts because that's just what's for dinner at my house: healthy food with maybe some richer things but not much. At the holidays, after the holidays, and always.