Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes

Stacy's Homemade Cornbread Dressing

This turkey stuffing uses cornbread and a variety of spices for flavor. Not only is it tasty, it's healthy too.

Sarah's Mashers

Here's a great way to sneak cauliflower into your kids' diet. Just cook and mash with potatoes!

Green Bean Delight

This colorful mix of cooked vegetables includes French-style green beans, bell peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms, seasoned with salad dressing and sprinkled with chees...

Healthy Hearty Meatloaf

This meatloaf uses ground turkey, egg white, and rolled oats for a healthy version. It also has tomato, onion and garlic, and may be garnished ...

Grandma's German Sweet Dressing

This stuffing recipe combines cinnamon bread cubes with chopped apples, apple cider, and raisins--both dark and golden.

Yummy Green Bean Casserole

Canned green beans are combined with sour cream and onion, then topped with cheddar cheese, crushed corn flakes, and canned French fried onions.

Mashed Potatoes and Veggies

Mashed potatoes mixed with a colorful assortment of vegys plus rich sour cream and butter--great comfort food.

Pumpkin Pie Waffles

These lowfat waffles contain no oil. The batter combines pumpkin, brown sugar, egg, milk and flour with spices.

Fall Squash Soup

Butternut and acorn squash is cooked in chicken broth, pureed and heated with yogurt to make this soup, that's seasoned with ginger, thyme, & lime ...

Pumpkin Muffins

Applesauce and egg product are used in this pumpkin muffin batter, which is seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

Brussel Sprout Chestnut Slaw

This slaw is made with red cabbage, brussel sprouts, and persimmons in a sweet and sour dressing.

Buffet Sweet Potato Balls

Mashed sweet potatoes, rolled in honey and pecans, and baked until lightly browned.

Healthy Holiday Pumpkin Bread

This bread uses pumpkin puree, wheat flour, wheat germ, yeast flakes, eggs, applesauce, & 3 kinds of sugar, and is drizzled with a powdered sugar ...

Buttternut Squash and Lentil Bisque

Cooked squash, apple, onion & broth is pureed, seasoned with red pepper & nutmeg, & cooked with lentils. Sliced bread and gouda cheese float atop.

Baked Kale Jarlsberg

Kale is cooked, drained and combined with a thick white sauce that contains Jarlsberg cheese and a little nutmeg.

Coconut-Sweet Potato Rissoto

This risotto uses the traditional arborio rice and adds curry powder, cream of coconut, and mashed sweet potato.

Crustless Lowfat Pumpkin Pie

The pumpkin pie filling, made with skim evaporated milk, sugars, spices and flour, is poured directly into the pie plate, without a crust.