Thanksgiving dinner can be a very healthy meal. Admittedly, there is a lot of fat, salt, and sugar in your favorite holiday dishes, but they also are full of color and fiber. One of the ways to get the vitamins and minerals you need is to select a wide variety of colorful foods. Thanksgiving dinner is very colorful. My dinner has eight colors: red, green, orange, white, tan, brown, yellow, and grey.
Thanksgiving is also full of foods you tend to ignore at other times of the year: sweet potatoes, cranberries, chestnuts, Brussel sprouts, and pumpkin. Those foods are full of nutrition and fiber. A colorful meal, full of a variety of vegetables that have nutrition and fiber is the best. The extra salt, fat and sugar make the meal special. You could bake your sweet potatoes, but some of the pleasure would be gone; you would miss the pineapple, brown sugar and marshmallows.
Let’s Cook Tonight® teaches a common sense approach to cooking and eating for maximum health, flavor and enjoyment. It makes sense to keep a holiday meal special and full of memories. Delicious, once a year dishes help create those memories. Make your Thanksgiving dinner full of color, flavor and love.
Simple cooking idea: When you put a lot of dishes into the oven at one time, the temperature will go down and everything will take longer to cook.
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