Life with Fall Foods

Pumpkins

Life with Fall Foods is about so much more than just food:

• It’s about learning seasonal healthy diet habits.

• It’s about learning to take comfort in healthy soups and stir fries, rather than holiday baking and candy that is so prevalent at this time of year.

• It’s about dusting off your crock-pot and creatively cooking stews full of seasonal vegetables.

• It’s about choosing some new and interesting fall produce that you may have never tried before. Butternut, acorn, and spaghetti squash can provide such delicious meals that are kid friendly.

• It could be about developing a new hobby that involves canning the last of the fall produce, or dehydrating those freshly picked apples.

• It’s about keeping your weight under control with fresh seasonal food, rather than watching your weight creep up from one too many holiday indulgences.

The seasonal approach to life is not a new idea, but one that our grandparents lived by out of necessity. It’s not a necessity for us today. It’s just less complicated in this busy world that we live in!

Life with Fall Foods is About:

• Keeping warm and cheerful and understanding Comfort Foods.

• Lightened Comfort Foods

• Light Vegetarian Comfort Food

• Overcoming the gloom of shortened cold, dark, days and unruly weather which can lead to Seasonal Affect Disorder!

• Simmering stews and soups that beckon family members to congregate in the kitchen!

• Light Casseroles

• Healthy Soup Recipes

• Gathering up the last fruits and vegetables of the fall harvest!

• Root Vegetables

• Apples

• Oatmeal and other Hot Cereal Ideas

• Planning Healthy Holiday Meals

• Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain

• Eating a balanced diet when fresh vegetables are a memory

• Portion Control when there are treats everywhere

• Lots of Event Day Eating

• Finding guilt free holiday recipes

• Pulling out your Crockpot

• Grains

• Sweet Potatoes, Squash, and Kale

• Pomegranates

• Pine Nuts

• Learning about Legumes

• Shopping Sales and Frugality

• Fall Vegetarian Ideas

• Light Desserts

• Fall Appetizers

• Healthy Foods on the Go

• Meals in 30 Minutes

• Fall Stir Fries

• Fall Snack List

• Cooking with Herbs

• Columbus Day, Halloween, Veteran’s Day, and Thanksgiving

• Fall Cooking

As the seasons change, so do food choices, cooking styles, healthy recipes, and tastes. The more you can cook and eat with the seasons, the easier it will be to keep your grocery bill and weight under control. Fill your grocery bags full of fresh fall foods like local produce, grains, legumes, and real foods that don’t require a label. Cook from scratch and learn to cook well!

Many Blessings for a Happy Fall Season!

Acorn Squash Soup! Don't pass up the Acorn Squash that are everywhere! Try new foods this Season!