Holiday Food
Planning Healthy Holiday Food is the key to special holidays. Most of us have favorite memories of our holiday meals where we learned special family stories and enjoyed holiday recipes handed down through the ages!
Each year, new family members were added, through birth or marriage, and others passed on to be remembered fondly. Our meals remained fairly constant and brought comfort! Food is like that. Grandma’s poppy seed bread, and Grammies home-made Chex party mix still bring warm memories, even though both of them are in heaven!
Many holiday meals revolve around heavy starchy foods. Take the Thanksgiving meal, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, rolls, jell-o, and pie, it is a carbohydrate feast.
We will try to keep the basics, and use healthy diet habits to lighten meals and give you some ideas to use your creativity. We will use Lifestyle Solutions to plan our holiday meals that are healthier and more balanced, but still out of this world! Who wants that awful Thanksgiving feeling of bloatedness!
Below, you will find some specific Holiday Food Tips for many of the popular Holidays:
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Healthy Tips to make your Christmas Food awesome and healthy! What is Christmas without great Holiday Food? |
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Easter Food and Meal Planning can be lightened to make for some new Easter Holiday Traditions, that don't have as much Sugar! Tips! |
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YOU can change YOUR Eating Habits to help support Earth Day - Not just on April 22nd each year, but each and every day of the year! |
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This Independence Day on July 4th, make a few adjustments to make your meal more health friendly for a new Lifestyle Solutions! |
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Halloween Food Tips on making Halloween a little healthier, and Tips on What to Do With Your Excess Candy on our Halloween Treats Guide. |
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Hanukkah Food involves a traditional meal plan full of fried foods, dairy, and sweet treats! Happy Hanukkah! |
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Labor Day Food is typically a picnic or barbeque, but you can celebrate Labor Day with some healthy menu choices! |
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Memorial Day Meals usually signal that summer is on the way, and barbeque season is opening. Here are some tips for making your Memorial Day healthier. |
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St Patrick's Day Food and Meal Planning, consists of the Traditional St Patrick's Day Meal of Corned Beef and Cabbage - tips and recipes! |
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Super Bowl Food is in such abundance that it is the 2nd largest U.S. Food Consumption Day? What to avoid, and some Healthy Diet Habits to include to enjoy your Super Bowl Day! |
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Thanksgiving Recipes need to be lightened because the traditional meal will cost you around 3000 calories or more! Find tips to help lighten your Thanksgiving Day recipes! |
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Valentines Day Food - Is there a better choice than Chocolate for Valentines Day? Find out some great Healthy ideas and Valentines Day Recipes! |
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Food Holidays or Food Observances focus on different types of foods throughout the year. Here is a summary page listing hundreds of them - we'll look at each in depth and include recipes! |
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There are traditional Holiday Drinks for some Holidays, and other Drinks that are great for any Special Day! Start Your Holiday Entertaining off Right! |
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Produce Trays are easy to make at home like professional Caterers do, to make your Holiday Meals Healthy! Tips on how to make them from Holidays and Observances!! |
Share YOUR Holiday Recipes!!
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Delicious Holiday Recipes are a tradition! Holiday recipes should be enjoyed and passed on to the younger generation! Please share YOUR family favorites and check out ours! |
Please Follow our Holidays and Observances Holiday Food/Recipe Board on Pinterest for some great ideas for Holiday Meals. Below you will see our 30 most recent pins to this photo board!
Click on the SEE ON PINTEREST bar right above, (link will take you to Pinterest) to see all the rest of our photo's on this board, and to Follow the board. New photos will be constantly added!
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