Meal

There’s nothing greater than a bowl of healthy soup on a cold day that provides you all the nutrients you need in just one bowl.  Even if it is not cold outside, soup always seems to hit the spot.  This recipe is slightly modified from Elana’s Pantry.  Enjoy it with 2 to 3 sesame crackers…

Ingredients: 7.5 oz can wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon 1 red bell pepper, diced 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped 1 small green apple, chopped 1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced (or bread and butter pickles) 1/2 cup green or red onions to taste, chopped 1 tsp garlic, minced 2 T avocado mayonnaise Apple cider vinegar to taste…

Here’s a delicious soup recipe that you will love.  I haven’t reinvented the wheel here, but instead am giving credit to Danielle Walker of “Against All Grain,” for this wonderful recipe. Starting your meal with a nutritious soup may also help you feel full and reduce your serving sizes of the other courses. Ingredients: 2-1/2…

In our quest to continue a “clean and delicious” Thanksgiving Day meal, don’t stop now and settle for “canned” cranberry sauce.  Oh no, that just won’t do!  This recipe is from glutenfreeandmore. Warning:  It is high in sugar and carbohydrates!  Before adding all of the sugar it suggests, I would only add half (and try…

Here’s a wonderful, delicious and very clean & healthy traditional Thanksgiving Day dish, from a fellow colleague, Tracy Konoske, Registered Dietitian. Check out her website to also learn all the health benefits of this delicious side dish.  Don’t forget to watch your portion size to minimize carbohydrate. Ingredients: For the mashed squash/sweet potato mixture: 3…

Everyone loves a green bean casserole for Thanksgiving Day, but the conventionally-made one with canned cream of mushroom soup and canned fried onions, just will no longer cut it for those who want a “clean” diet.  Here’s a version created by Diane Sanfilippo, who wrote the 21-day Sugar Detox Cookbook, that is gluten-free, additive-free, and…

What’s turkey and stuffing without gravy? A sin, that’s what! Conventional cooks usually add flour when thickening their gravy.  That’s a no-no if the goal is to be gluten-free and minimizing carbohydates.  Commercial gravies contain flour (and gluten), and who knows what other unhealthy additives and GMO garbage. Here’s a very simple and delicious gravy…

What do you think of when you think of “stuffing”? I grew up in New Orleans, and some of my most memorable dishes were: stuffed artichokes, stuffed peppers, stuffed merlitons, and stuffed turkey. Interestingly, though, although the artichokes and merlitons were a “bread-based” stuffing, the peppers and turkey were a meat-based stuffing. For the turkey…