How to Have a Healthy Holiday Feast

That will taste even better than the typical fare...

While everyone outside of Tan Land is struggling with choosing between their family’s tasty traditional dishes and their desire to not feel like crap for an entire week, our citizens know the truth:

That tradeoffs between health and taste are entirely unnecessary.

Be guilty no more, my friends, and use the following four recipes as inspiration to transform your family’s unhealthy annual bender into a nutrient-dense feast.

nutrient dense on the inside, delicious on the outside…

The Point of Feasting

Feasting is as old as history itself. Why do we do it?

Because we enjoy stomach convulsions and weight gain so much that we’ve kept this tradition for thousands of years?

Hardly. In former times, bountiful nutrient dense food was somewhat scarce.

We didn’t have fresh fruit, maple syrup, honey, unlimited dairy, and fresh meat available to us every day of the year.

The purpose of the feast then is to reward people for the hard work of living by celebrating with nutritious and delicious foods that that might be scarce during the rest of the year.

feast = time to binge on healthy food

Only because our modern food is so generally toxic does the opportunity to eat a lot of it become a problem.

This is an important point: The nature of a feast is to be a health food binge. It’s to store up your strength and build up nutrient reserves. Not to damage yourself.

With that in mind then, we are going to construct a modern Christmas feast the way it should be done— with the real versions of our holiday favorites that are as nutrient dense as they are delicious— that would make a medieval European drool at its quantity and decadence.

1. Apple Pie

Let’s get this out of the way first— there is no reason to fear dessert.

Sugar, when consumed in quantities consistent with how much you use your body, is perfectly fine, and is especially useful for staying healthy through the winter.

Of course, most store bought apple pies are far from metabolically healthy— full of seed oils, pesticides, and synthetic flavors, the standard apple pie is insulting.

Instead, you can make apple pie with the following:

• Organic bread flour from breadtopia

• Make the pie crust with pasture raised lard or butter

• Make the filling with organic apples, maple syrup, and organic spices (nothing else needed)

• Glaze the crust (optional) with pasture raised egg yolks.

To make the pie, you can follow any normal recipe— and that’s the beauty of it.

You don’t have to make foods weird for them to be healthy: you just need to use high quality, natural ingredients.

This doesn’t make them taste weird either— real food always tastes better than the fake alternative.

In case you think it’s expensive, then read this article. tl;dr is that it’s not very expensive, but it is indeed worth it.

2. Eggnog

Liquid junk food, or nutrient dense superfood?

The answer of course is in the choice of ingredients.

Once again, you can follow any recipe. Full of vitamin A and D from the high quality dairy, if it wasn’t called “eggnog” this would be an every day superfood smoothie.

Just make sure to

• Use raw, grass fed, pasture raised dairy (find a raw milk farm here)

• Maple syrup instead of sugar (noticing a trend?)

• Organic spices

• Pasture raised eggs

metabolism boosting on those cold days…

Booze is optional, but a high quality rum is one of the better alcohol choices out there as rum is lower in pesticide content than wheat- and corn-heavy whiskey or vodka.

3. Fried seafood

From flounder to calamari, Italian immigrants to Tan Land will be frying up a lot of fish on Christmas eve.

But there is no reason to fear this. You can make a good breading very easily: