Healthy Thanksgiving Ideas

It seems like the minute Halloween ends, the Christmas season begins, with the stores in my neighborhood decked out with trees and stockings, and my inbox full of gift guides!

But can we also talk about the other holiday? The one in November that we almost all celebrate?

Here are some of the ways you can make this year’s Thanksgiving healthier and saner.

Use Gimme’s Own Thanksgiving Recipes

There are several healthy Thanksgiving recipes that we’ve been making since I was born, and my unbiased opinion is that they are the also the yummiest. We’ve published super simple recipes for:

My dad’s top-secret cranberry sauce, which contains no sugar and secret chia seeds.
My mom’s favorite maple yams.
My mom’s famous sprouted stuffing, which is made with sprouted bread.

Enjoy a Hangover-Free Buzz

The holidays are a great time to enjoy some healthy, organic wine. I wrote about what to look for in wine in this post, and I now only really drink Dry Farm wines. Every bottle is lab-tested to be sugar-free, carb-free, low-sulfites (and never added sulfites), organic or biodynamically grown, hand-harvested, made in small batches, and free of all additives. If you’re looking for ways to decrease your drinking in general, here are three things that have worked for me.

Cook with Safer Cookware

We’ve just updated our Safe Cookware Guide to help you upgrade to only non-leaching, non-off-gassing items as we enter the biggest cooking season of the year. My favorites for holiday cooking are this dutch oven, an Always Pan, and some ceramic food storage items. You can see here that last year we used some Xtrema, some Le Creuset, and some Lodge for items that went from stove/oven to table!

Make Movement a Tradition

Growing up in Vermont, we used to always take a walk up a mountain road after the meal. Now that we often host in Brooklyn, we engage in a football game (or some of us do, anyway).

Get Some Good Stuff to Kick of the Holiday Season

I’m recently obsessed with Wildgrain fermented bread, pastries, and pastas, perfect for the upcoming holiday season. Through the end of October, you can get $40 off your first Wildgrain Box with code CARBSGIVING40. I got a bunch of stuff for hosting Thanksgiving (my kids love the croissants, and they are healthier than the organic kind in the tubes).
Sarah’s Silk’s Advent Calendars and Stockings are soooo cute. Even though my kids are probably too old for them, I kind of want one.
Speaking of advent calendars, this is a cute, mini one for an older kid or lip-balm obsessed grownup, and this one from Maker is amazing for a grownup.
Our selection toxin-free scented candles are perfect for autumn and beyond–in cozy scents like Fireside, Pumpkin Pie, and Harvest Apple.

I’m also curious if any of you are doing the viral Winter Arc trend? I’m debating doing this cleanse before the holidays fully arrive and it all goes entire off the rails, in the best way possible!

In any case, I hope you have a wonderful, sane Thanksgiving!

Stay sane,