As you prepare for the holiday season, find one thing that you can do to make it nutritionally healthier for you and your family and do it. Here are some ideas:
- Cut the top off of a small pumpkin and hollow it out. Fill it with Roasted Red Bell Pepper or Sun dried Tomato Hummus and surround it with green bell pepper strips, cucumber dials, orange & yellow bell peppers and carrot sticks for a beautiful harvest hors d’ oeuvres tray.
- Prepare your pumpkin pie crust using almond flour instead of wheat flour.
- Replace your traditional bread stuffing with a quinoa and roasted winter squash dish. Use the same savory spices of sage, oregano & rosemary. Even include the oysters.
- Surprise everyone with a healthier alternative to mashed potatoes using mashed cauliflower instead.
- When preparing sweets, reduce the sugar by ¼ cup or replace it with a healthier option such as stevia, JustLikeSugar, or Erythritol.
- Prepare less food so that there are not as many leftovers.
- Save the turkey carcass and use it to make turkey vegetable soup for the freezer.
- Order a free range, organic fresh turkey.
- Make homemade cranberry relish to avoid the high fructose cranberry in canned.
- Rather than green bean casserole, serve fresh green beans with melted butter, almond slivers and dill sprigs.
- Insist that everyone you eat with go out for a walk or bike ride TOGETHER before or after dinner.
- Give Thanks.