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Healthy Tips: Using Up Holiday Leftovers

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Holiday gatherings often mean a bounteous array of food. Starting with turkey or brisket, or ham or whatever your main course is. This is usually accompanied by potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, family favorite recipes, and an almost endless parade of desserts. All of which often means lots of leftovers. How to deal with these leftovers can be a bit challenging at times.

I've put together some thoughts on things to remember for the holiday so we can all have a happy, healthy, safe, and delicious day. 

In order to make sure you have the healthiest leftovers possible be sure to start with the healthiest ingredients. You'll find the recipes in my Holiday Leftover Plan Ebook

  • Making your own cream of whatever soup base (see recipe below) is an excellent substitute for that chemical-laden standby cream of mushroom
  • If your family are biscuit fans make your own instead of the whack-and-bake variety
  • Don't buy the stuff in the can, it only takes a few minutes to make your own delicious cranberry sauce
  • If you eat gluten avoid the chlorine bleaching and bromates found in many commercial flours by choosing un-brominated and unbleached flours instead
  • Skip the crispy onions which come loaded with GMO ingredients and negative additives. Make delicious caramelized onions as a topping instead
  • Canned gravy usually has MSG, trans fats, sulfites, and caramel color, you can easily make your own
  • Pie fillings often come loaded with GMO ingredients, MSG, plus artificial flavorings and preservatives, making your own is fairly easy.
  • Don't throw out those bones, use them to make this delicious broth
  • Leftover wine can be frozen into ice cubes and used later. A standard ice cube tray is 1 ounce which is the equivalent of 2 tablespoons
  • Instead of storing each leftover item in its own container make them into Meal Jars using wide mouth pint jars for a quick and easy lunch or dinner

One of the recipes from my ebook: 

However you celebrate, whatever is on your table, whoever you gather with, I wish you a holiday full of joy and gratitude, health, and happiness!

Holiday Recipe: Mockstroni Soup

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There’s nothing more comforting than a nourishing bowl of soup after being out in the winter cold. This recipe utilizes an instant pot or a slow cooker, so you can easily come home to an easy-to-prepare soup to warm you up. 

This hearty soup is gluten-free and features that classic minestrone combination of herbs, beans, and vegetables. Because it's not your classical minestrone, I decided to change the name and call it “mockstroni.”

The traditional way to make this soup was to use whatever was in season, so feel free to use whatever vegetables you have on hand. Fresh herbs are always best, but in the wintertime, dry herbs are fine. And if you want to make a vegetarian version, you can simply use vegetable broth instead of bone broth.

Looking for more recipes? Have a look at my Healthy Holiday Recipes and choose which soup you’ll be ladling up! 

Note: Get 10% off on my Healthy Holiday Recipes + FREE Holiday Leftover Plan when you buy before the launch on December 18!

Enjoy cooking and have a healthy holiday season!