40 Healthy Date Recipes for Weight Loss | Dates are a healthy sugar substitute, allowing you to add sweetness to your meals and desserts without using refined sugar. It's an easy, clean eating food swap you can use to create easy and delicious lunch, dinner, and dessert recipes to help you lose weight and keep your blood sugar stable. Whether you follow a vegan, Paleo, keto, or low calorie diet, this collection of recipes has everything from smoothies, to cookies, to banana bread and more!