Back by popular demand is our (mostly healthy 😉 ) Holiday Cookbook and it is Free!

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Are you ready to not accept gaining those frustrating holiday pounds after working so hard to get them off? This post is for you my friend!

Check out this delicious crustless pumpkin pie recipe from Dini at theflavorbender.com

KEEP IT SECRET

My late dad was a true blue foodie so he would basically have a fit if we messed with his favorite foods. So you know what we did that worked?

We didn’t tell him that we were serving a modified version of his all time favorites. We served him his yummy pie with no “strange flavors” and he never knew the difference!

By not changing ALL of everyone’s traditional dishes, I have in my cookbook a favorite sweet potatoes dish…and yes…it has butter!

START SLOWLY

Adding only a few new healthier versions at a time works. So keeping my much loved sweet potatoe dish loaded with butter was kept untouched.

I use this combo of real and not so real in my design projects too. For example, adding a few live plants in with high quality silk plants, the message is that all the greenery is real.  This same concept applies with making only a few of our holiday dishes healthier, gives the impression of eating a “normal” traditional dinner.

BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING

Thanksgiving of course, is a time for being thankful for all that we have been so abundantly blessed with regardless of our situations. No matter our particular challenges at any given time, this specific holiday is our reminder to be grateful for what we have.

Because regardless of our own situations, we know there are others who are facing far worse and have far less than we have. And they could live across the street from you.

LIVE YOUR THANKFULNESS

I remember so vividly feeling very lonely and isolated on a few different holidays having no family in our area. Lesson learned from that sadness was for me to get our of myself and invite friends or even acquintences to our home for a holiday meal.

And you know what? I was the one blessed by enjoying the preparations and the anticipation of not being alone. My secret to not feeling overwhemed was to keep it simple.

Using the recipes in my cookbook helped me to stream line so many of those time consuming dishes. Blessing others to show thankfulness with what we have does not require a marathon endeavor!

VERBALIZE YOUR THOUGHTS OF THANKFULLNESS

Finally, telling others that we are thankful for them resonates big time. People can not read our minds. Therefore, I am telling all you wonderful followers that I am IMMENSELY grateful for you this Thanksgiving.

You all give me a beautiful purpose by allowing me to share my life of design and my lifestyle. Happy Thanksgiving you all!

Living and Loving life together,

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