31 Days to Healthier Holidays

Gathering with close friends and family members during the holidays creates lasting joy and memories. But with so many parties, celebrations and errands to run, it can be hard to keep up with your healthy lifestyle! Here are 31 daily tips that will help you make healthy choices throughout the holiday season.
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http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=479

My First Alive Thanksgiving!

    Can you eat 5 servings of a variety of fruits and vegetables everyday? Your body will say thank you !
With the holidays nearing, the time has come for thinking about clever, memorable, and eco-friendly menus to serve friends and family. Fatty, high calorie filled traditional recipes will be replaced with ingenious solutions to be able to serve better healthier dishes .
    We have been mostly vegetarian for about a month or so and loving it ! I would say that I am about 80% raw with the remaining being  made up with  my addictions to cheese, especially goat cheese  on my salads or stuffed inside dates,  "Crunch master " multi-seed crackers ,  eggs  and potatoes still on the weekends. I am very blessed to eat  some the best food in the world . With concerns of posions being prayed on our fruits and veggie , I started a home garden  which I am proud to say I won a Martha Stewart Award for last spring.Unfortunately it has been neglected  after a busy summer at work ... but the local farmers markets make up for that ! I really want to go totally raw some day . I'm  not sure why they call it raw , if you are allowed to heat some things up to 118 degrees ? Shouldn't they say , almost raw ??
Now that it is getting colder and rainy , I'm sure I will still be making my wonderful soups and veggie stews.
    We have been invited to friends for Thanksgiving . When we told them that we went vegetarian, the joke was, were we going to bring tofu turkey ? Actually I will be taking  a layered sweet potato cheesecake !  Totally vegan too ... and oh so good ! I can't wait til everyone trys it out ! I made a small sample one for us to try and its  so YUMMY!!