August Seasonal Foods + Upgrade Your Summer Plate Links

All the links to our Summer Upgrade Your Plate... see what is in season this month + recipes!

Happy Monday! Today we present the links to each of the days from last week’s Upgrade Your Summer Plate - a simple way to access the information whenever you want! We are also looking at the foods that are in-season in August, including recipes to help get your creative cooking juices going!

Coming up later this week, we are covering:

• Diana’s take on what is healthier, breastmilk or formula - and how her opinion has evolved while pregnant for the second time in Nourished Mama

• The Flexitarian Diet: Is It Healthy?” in our Wednesday In The News series

• Peaches: How they benefit the immune system, grilling tips and more - including a new recipe and a One-Day Immune System Boosting Meal Plan!

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Upgrade Your Summer Plate Reference Links

Our 7-day simple swap plan to help you eat more energizing, fueling, anti-inflammatory foods this summer was a hit! To make it easy to access each day, the page below has links to everything we offered up:

• Day 1: Upgrade Your Breakfasts. Find out why we think breakfast is important, why you should swap out breakfast cereal, and simple breakfast recipes perfect for summer. This day is FREE for all our readers!

• Day 2: Upgrade Your Lunches. Learn how lunch can help you stay energized into the evenings; use our handy chart to help you build healthy, portable lunches; see our fast food upgrades for those days when the drive-thru can’t be avoided; and try our anti-inflammatory lunch recipes.

• Day 3: Upgrade Your Pizza. Hear why Dr. Weil loves pizza; its health benefits; simple, healthy pizza upgrades and fun and healthy pizza ideas; plus recipes!

• Day 4: Upgrade Your Snacks. Get healthy snacking tips, easy swaps to make your snacking more anti-inflammatory, watch a how-to video of Dr. Weil making one of his favorite snacks and try our healthy snack recipes!

• Day 5: Upgrade Your Sauces and Dressings. Learn about the healthy benefits of making your own sauces, dips and dressings; try our go-to salad dressing formula; watch a how-to video on one of our favorite sauces; and try the eight sauce and dressing recipes!

• Day 6: Upgrade Your Sweets. Find out why refined sugar (and some sugar alternatives) are best in moderation, use our healthy sweet swap chart to make more anti-inflammatory choices when you have a sweet tooth, and try our sweet treat recipes!

• Day 7: A Complete Upgrade Day. We present an entire day of anti-inflammatory meals for you to try - includes snacks and drinks!

This week-long upgrade was free for our WEIL Nutrition Corner® VIPs - you can upgrade now to unlock everything and save 45% off an annual VIP membership with our Summer 2026 sale!

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Seasonal Foods: August

These foods are all now in season, so add them to your grocery list! We have included summer-ready recipes, too:

• Dr. Weil’s Cherry Tomato Vinaigrette

• Dr. Weil’s Green Bean Salad

• Fresh Dill Potato Salad

• NEW: Warm Swiss Chard with Lemon, Garlic & Toasted Pine Nuts

The content is available to all our readers, but the recipes are VIP, so upgrade today to access them all!