Healthy thanksgiving recipes?

killer_cupcake

This year we want to do it healthy! I need recipes & good ones!

rlmassman84

I usually do a sweet and spicy carrot and parsnip dish. If you peel the carrots and parsnips and then slice them into 1/4 rounds and toss them in a saute pan with 2 TBS of maple syrup, a TSP of olive oil, and some cayenne pepper and cook over a medium low heat until soft they are delicious. Carrots and parsnips have a lot of naturally occurring sugar so you don't have to add much to make them delicious. You can also substitute in a lot of different things for the cayenne, like cinnamon or or a touch of ground mustard seed.

MrsFowler1069

Roasted herbed turkey breast
A variety of roasted root vegetables (or whatever mix pleases you) with onion, garlic, and olive oil
Baked butternut squash
Green salad
Mashed potato and cauliflower mix (1 part potato to 2 parts cauliflower)

Here is a recipe for a little lighter version of pumpkin pie:

http://www.food.com/recipe/ww-pumpkin-pie-with-graham-cracker-crust-400915 (It's only 172 calories for 1/8 of the pie - you could make it crustless and keep it even lighter)


Or anything made with THIS:
http://www.skinnytaste.com/2010/10/pumpkin-butter.html (just Google 'desserts using pumpkin butter' or something along that line)

No one is perfect, so you can always top things off with a slightly lower-cal version of:
Hot Buttered Rum -
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/hot-buttered-rum.html
~or~
Silk Irish Coffee -
http://www.doctoroz.com/sponsor-videos/silk-irish-coffee


I'll probably just stick to Whiskey, but hey, you asked for recipes and I don't have a whiskey recipe. lol

ripemango

this 1 is healthy and 1 my entire family now prefers over sweet potato casserole:

and that is...just a baked sweet potato. The 'secret' is baking @ 250 degrees for about 3 hours. The inside gets velvety smooth. I top mine with salt, pepper, and butter. I don't consider butter to be unhealthy unless the portion is too large.

ripemango

This sounds lovely. I cannot wait to try it! I will prob include onion and garlic too.

I usually do a sweet and spicy carrot and parsnip dish. If you peel the carrots and parsnips and then slice them into 1/4 rounds and toss them in a saute pan with 2 TBS of maple syrup, a TSP of olive oil, and some cayenne pepper and cook over a medium low heat until soft they are delicious. Carrots and parsnips have a lot of naturally occurring sugar so you don't have to add much to make them delicious. You can also substitute in a lot of different things for the cayenne, like cinnamon or or a touch of ground mustard seed.

MrsFowler1069

this 1 is healthy and 1 my entire family now prefers over sweet potato casserole:

and that is...just a baked sweet potato. The 'secret' is baking @ 250 degrees for about 3 hours. The inside gets velvety smooth. I top mine with salt, pepper, and butter. I don't consider butter to be unhealthy unless the portion is too large.

I love them, too! They are also really good roasted.

jillianbeeee

bump

Buffedncut

take a doctor prescribed sleeping pill. THERE ARE NO HEALTHY RECIPES FOR TURKEY DAY

annekka

This sounds like an excellent alternative to pumpkin pie. Bonus: the whole pie has less cals than one slice of traditional pumpkin pie. http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2012/11/08/crustless-pumpkin-pie/

Cranquistador

NO.

Mia_RagazzaTosta

It's one day. Enjoy all the foodz.

AmykinsCatfood

At Canadian thanksgiving, I had two helpings of everything, had a slice of pie, and some apple crumble. Didn't record a thing, and *gasp* didn't gain a thing.

Enjoy it, it's one day! Save your healthy recipes for doing something with the leftovers.

bugaha1

I'd rather eat healthy before Thanksgiving

cosmonew

bump for good recipes NOT JUST AT THANKSGIVING

jayrudq

I love to roast carrots, leaks, and garlic together with a bit of EVOO.

Instead of green bean casserole I buy the french skinny beans, cook them (I use the microwave) and add them to a huge pile of caramelized onion, portabella mushrooms, to which I have added a couple of slices of bacon (already cooked kind, less fat cal).

Rutabegas. Mashed. OMG - good.

Avarindria

It's one day. Enjoy all the foodz.

^^This!^^

rml_16

Well ... you can make most of the traditional foods tasty without adding too many extra calories. But don't leave out the yummy stuff. it's Thanksgiving. It's the one and only holiday that is really all about the food (it celebrates the harvest).

Just eat a little less and maybe get a workout in.

randomtai

NO.

I this response.

FitCanuckChick

All the harvest vegetables are so yummy without all the added extra cals. I like roasting beets, sweet potatoes, etc with a bit of olive oil, sea salt and balsamic. Also, we made a turkey breast instead of the whole turkey this year and everyone loved it. Even those who are not watching cals.

conniemaxwell5

Roasted root vegetables (peel them, cut them into 1-2" chunks, toss in 2 T olive oil and some salt and pepper, roast at 375 for 20 minutes)
Baked potatoes instead of mashed
Baked sweet potatoes
Wild rice salad (google Ruthefords wild rice salad recipe - omg! GOOD)
Kale salad w/ dried cranberries and walnuts (cut the kale up into bite size pieces, toss with dried cranberries and chopped walnuts or pecans, shave in some parmesan cheese and toss with a little olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste)
Pumpkin or butternut squash soup - google for recipes
For me there's no substitute for pumpkin pie but you could do pumpkin bars instead where the filling is less per serving so you still get the taste but for less calories.

lloydrt

good luck on Turkey day, again, its one day........maybe mix healthy with a little unhealthy..........