Other recipes to try:

Roasted Cauliflower with Apples, Bacon and Balsamic Vinegar
Perfect Turkey – Thanksgiving is next week!
Traditional Cranberry Sauce – This one is actually a recipe from my family, we know this traces back to at least my great-great-grandmother! Traditional cranberry sauce is basically apple sauce with cranberries. It’s super easy but it does require some elbow grease. And you may need to add a little real cane sugar depending on how tart the cranberries are; don’t stress too much about that, this is a once or maybe twice a year food and while we try to minimize added sugars on a daily basis, a little bit for an occasional special meal can still fit into a nutrient dense diet.

Let’s talk science:

Price impacts how many vegetables people eat – A new study shows that when real, whole foods (like vegetables) are closer in cost to processed foods, people end up eating more vegetables. This leads us to the idea that we need to rethink the subsidies that allow foodless calories to be cheaper than real food. It is vitally important when we see that LESS THAN 20% of people eat even the USDA minimum recommendation for fruits and veggies: “Nearly 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese and less than 20 percent attain recommendations for fruits and vegetables. Cheap prices of unhealthy foods relative to healthier foods may be contributing to obesity and low-quality diet.” What is also key is that the same authors of this study did another one which “found the price ratio of healthy-to-unhealthy food had a significant association with insulin resistance.” Let that sink in. The shear cost of food has an association with insulin resistance. We can’t keep blaming people for having “poor self-control” (the classic, and wrong, model that chronic dietary related diseases are purely a moral fault lying in the person’s inability to just “eat less and move more.”) We have to start fixing the system because right now, it’s setting us up for failure.

It’s a lifestyle:

Hone Your Skills – There are so many wonderful varieties of winter squash but you may have questions about cooking with them: how do you pick the right squash? what’s the best way to store it? how do you cook all the different types? Luckily Serious Eats has A Guide to Winter Squash: How to Choose, Store, and Cook Your Gourds.
Hone Your Skills – I love learning new tricks for making food last longer and this one is genius! If you are like me and have a tendency to buy lots of ground meat, especially when the grass finished beef is on sale, then you need a way to store it until you need it. The Kitchn has got you covered with a fabulous trick they picked up from Pinterest for the easy freezing, storing and defrosting of ground meat of all kind.
Mindset – The holidays can be a wonderfully joyous time, but it can also bring lots of stress, frustration, and even depression. Forbes has created a great list of different ways to deal with holiday stress, check them out and see if you can find something that may help you if you find yourself overwhelmed or upset over the holiday season (and know that it’s normal!)

– Caitlin Allday, RDN
Nutrition Coach

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