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Our Christmas Day Protective Diet Feast

12/30/2014

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Hello friends.  I hope everyone enjoyed your holiday celebrations, we certainly did.  I thought I would share a few pictures and descriptions of the healthy delicious meals/feasts we had on Christmas Day.  We spent Christmas Eve with family and had all day on Christmas Day to ourselves.  I had planned out recipes and did a huge grocery shop early in the week.  I also did some prep earlier in the week so we could have a fairly restful Christmas Day.  

We started the day with gingerbread scones.  This is an adaptation of the Protective Diet (PD) Lemon Blueberry Scones where you leave out those flavors and substitute with gingerbread spices.  They turned out beautifully.  We enjoyed them topped with PD Soy Yogurt which tastes like cream to me now that my tastebuds have adapted to not being overloaded with sugar/fat/salt which is packed into everything in a Standard American Diet (SAD).  We didn't go overboard on breakfast as we knew we would have  big dinner.  We had breakfast quite late, enjoyed at a leisurely pace with a cup of tea.
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For our main Christmas Day meal, we assembled (some things were pre-prepared) all of the following PD recipes:
  • Holiday Loaf
  • Mushroom Gravy
  • Roasted Potatoes (just cut into quarters, put face down on a baking sheet, roast in the oven at 400-425 degrees for about 40-45 minutes, they get all browned and lovely)
  • Stuff Yourself Stuffing
  • Green Bean Casserole
  • Cranberry Sauce
The picture above is actually of a plate of leftovers, because I forgot to take a picture of my Christmas dinner.  The leftovers heat up wonderfully and we have plenty of them!  We may freeze some as well.  All of the effort to make these healthy vegan versions of traditional recipes was so worth it.  We had a wonderful meal early in the evening, then enjoyed watching some classic Christmas movies with a lovely fire blazing.

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To end the day, we made a Chocolate Cherry Cake with a sweet potato based chocolate frosting.  The cake is 2 layers with a layer of sweet dark cherry filling.  This was so good!  We have lots leftover and I have been snacking on it all week.  It is a Protective Diet recipe, so I know it is healthy for me and have a slice without the guilt any time I like.  I am so looking forward to sharing the details of this sustainable weight loss plan at my January 7th weight loss class at Ways To Wellness.  I will share details on the class soon.  

All Protective Diet (PD) recipes can be found HERE. 

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve and New Year's Day my friends!
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