Healthy Holiday Eating

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Eating Healthy throughout the Holiday Season

Healthy eating is important throughout the holiday season. We often think about the big holiday meals and the parties and forget about all of the extra eating we do during the holidays on an every day basis. My goal this year is to enjoy the holiday meals but in between get back on track with healthy eating. For instance celebrate Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving day but the next day get right back on track to healthy eating. Enjoy those Christmas parties, but the next day get back to healthy eating.

For me the problem arises when I start to think "it is the holiday season so I'm just going to enjoy myself and eat whatever I want all the time".
I believe that if I stay on track the majority of the time, I can maintain a healthy living and not gain pounds over the critical holiday period and still enjoy some splurges during the big meals and parties.

On this page I will give you an example of a healthy meal choice along with recipes for all of the courses. Enjoy and stay healthy and happy this holiday season!
photographs by Mary Beth Granger

Healthy Dinner Menu

Salad with Low or NoCal Dressing
Baked Tilipia with Vegetables
Long Grain and Wild Rice
Homemade Applesauce
Blueberry and Apple Oat Muffins
Key Lime Pie

Salads for Healthy Eating

keep them simple and delicious

A good healthy salad can be made using a variety of fruits and vegetables. The key to keeping them healthy and low in calories is to stay with only vegetables and a few fruits in your salad. When you start adding things like nuts,cheeses, bacon bits then you start to up the calorie count. Here is an example of what I added to my last salad. I diced all of the fruits and vegetables fairly small.

Leaf lettuce
Leaf spinach
Green onions
Peas
Red and Yellow Peppers
Tomatoes
Broccoli
Apple (peeled and diced)
dried cranberries

I used the no calorie dressings made by Walden Farms for my salad.
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Baked Tilapia and Vegetables

Low calorie dinner-less than 300 calories

Long Grain and Wild Rice

easy, quick and delicious

This product is one of my favorites to add some starch to my healthy meal. It is quick, easy and delicious. You just slit the bag and heat in the microwave. A serving size of 1 cup has 190 calories. When we are watching our calories I use 1/2 cup for my serving of 95 calories.

Homemade Applesauce

I love making homemade applesauce. I add only water, cinnamon and cloves for a delicious and low calorie fruit dish.
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Blueberry and Apple Oat Muffins

Key Lime Pie

Delicious and Low in Fat and Calories

Dierbergs Cookbooks

I love using the Dierbergs Cookbooks. They have a couple of cookbooks for Healthy Eating that are available in their stores.

Share your Healthy Eating Tips

I'd love to hear from you

  • FashionMommy Mar 9, 2012 @ 4:44 pm | delete
    Lovely recipes! They sound delicious. I will be delighted to try and make them. Great job and thanks for sharing!
  • JoyfulReviewer Nov 15, 2011 @ 2:21 pm | delete
    The baked tilapia and vegetables recipe looks especially delicious. Congratulations on your lens being chosen to be featured on the Fall Harvest Fest monsterboard. Have bookmarked this page into my recipes folder.
  • iijuan12 Nov 15, 2011 @ 12:42 pm | delete
    Great ideas and recipes! I always try to sneak in a few healthy options at our holiday tables.
  • greenlungsofpoland Oct 30, 2011 @ 1:00 am | delete
    Great idea for a lens hope to try some of these ideas out
  • SueM11 Oct 28, 2011 @ 7:49 am | delete
    Holidays play havoc to my healthy meals. It takes some discipline to keep to the same eating habits. I think most of us tend to overeat when we are on holiday. I love your blueberry apple oat muffins.
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Recipes under 300 Calories 

Betty Crocker The 300 Calorie Cookbook: 300 tasty meals for eating healthy every day (Betty Crocker Books)

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I love to browse cookbooks to get menu and recipe ideas. I don't always use them exactly but work on adjusting them to fit my families taste.

Guide to Healthy Eating 

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

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Shopping guide for Healthy Eating 

Guide To Healthy Eating: 7 Secrets For Smart Shoppers

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Knowing what to buy is the starting point for healthy eating.