Planning Healthy Holiday Meals

Planning Healthy Holiday Meals is the key to special holidays. Most of us have favorite memories of our holiday meals where we learned special family stories and enjoyed recipes handed down through the ages!

Each year new family members were added, through birth or marriage, and others passed on to be remembered fondly. Our meals remained fairly constant and brought comfort! Food is like that. Grandma’s poppy seed bread and Grammies home-made Chex party mix still bring warm memories, even though both of them are in heaven!

Many holiday meals revolve around heavy starchy foods. Take the Thanksgiving meal, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, corn, rolls, jell-o, and pie, it is a carbohydrate feast. We will try to keep the basics and use healthy diet habits to lighten meals and give you some ideas to use your creativity. We will use Lifestyle Solutions to plan holiday meals that are more healthy and balanced, but still out of this world! Who wants that awful Thanksgiving feeling of bloatedness!

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Holidays meals that we will plan for are:

NOTE: Dates below, without a year, are the same date each year. Dates that have a year, are different dates each year.  As pages get done, they will be linked up below.

• New Years Day – January 1 (See also: New Years Resolutions and Weight Loss Tips and Diet Resolutions

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – January 15, 2024

• Groundhog Day – February 2

• Chinese New Year - February 10, 2024

• Super Bowl Sunday - February 11, 2024 - Not a Holiday, but an Annual Event, so I'm including on this page

• Valentine’s Day – February 14

• Presidents Day – February 15, 2024

• St. Patrick’s Day – March 17

• Easter – March 31, 2024

• Earth Day – April 22

• Cinco De Mayo – May 5

• Mothers Day – May 12, 2024 (Second Sunday in May)

• Armed Forces Day – May 18, 2024

• Memorial Day – May 27, 2024

• Father’s Day – June 16, 2024 (Third Sunday in June)

• Independence Day – July 4

• Labor Day – September 2, 2024

• Columbus Day – October 14, 2024

• Halloween – October 31  (See Also: Halloween Treats Tips for dealing with the Halloween Treats Overload!)

• Veteran’s Day – November 11

• Thanksgiving – November 28, 2024 (See Also: Thanksgiving Recipes Tips for lightening your Thanksgiving Meal!

• Hanukkah – Evening of December 25, 2024 to Evening of January 2, 2025

• Christmas – December 25

• New Years Eve – December 31

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Each of these holidays, revolves around a special time in our culture. We celebrate Presidents, those that have served our country in the military and have given their lives, our freedom as a country, our Moms and Dads, sweethearts, the birth and death of Christ, Martin Luther, and many others.

If you have a favorite recipe or idea, please send it in, and we will include it! Let’s create some new health friendly holiday celebrations!

For some additional tips for the Holidays, see:

• Healthy Holiday Tips for some great tips related to food, habits, and coping for the holiday season!


• Holiday Food to Avoid


• Holiday Food Plan for Weight Control


• Holiday Weight Gain

Please Check out my other Website!

Holidays and Observances

US and Around the World - Includes the many Health Awareness Days/Weeks/Months

Lots of Food Holidays and Holiday Food Tips!!

My sister Leigh, and I have had so much fun working on Holiday pages together for our various websites, that on 12-12-12, we started an entire website about Holidays, and the many Observances, and Awareness Days/Weeks/Months that are celebrated throughout the year! Please check out our new site and follow us on social media:

• Holidays and Observances - Website
• Holidays and Observances - Facebook
• Holidays and Observances - Pinterest
• Holidays and Observances - Twitter