Fall means it’s time for the holidays, including my favorite Thanksgiving Food Ideas.
Autumn is fantastic because the weather cools off, the leaves turn beautiful colors, and my Thanksgiving pies start going in the oven!
Thanksgiving Food Ideas
I can barely contain myself when this holiday comes around.
I love that we have an entire day dedicated to gratitude, and I love celebrating with my darling family.
Is Thanksgiving a Holiday?
So, if you’re wondering, is Thanksgiving a holiday, the answer is yes.
It is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada.
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Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, while American Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November.
Healthy Keto Thanksgiving Recipes
I love that my Thanksgiving meal includes so many delicious superfoods.
With the harvest of fall upon us, Thanksgiving is the perfect time to eat the rainbow.
And so, each year, we have a variety of gorgeous, colorful dishes on the table, from the greens of kale and brussels sprouts to the orange of Pumpkin Pie, and the beautiful bright red of cranberry sauce.
All delicious superfoods that are easy to make, perfectly traditional, and incredibly healthy.
If you’re looking for Keto Diet Healthy Recipes, try my Keto Pumpkin Pie and many other hits below!
Recipe for Roasted Turkey with Balsamic
Stuffing Recipes for Thanksgiving
Vegetable Side Dish for Thanksgiving
My favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal, other than dessert, is the vegetable sides! Here are some of my favorites:
Sides for Thanksgiving
It’s not all about the turkey and vegetables, there are plenty of other delicious sides for Thanksgiving.
Cranberry Sauce Orange Juice
How to Make Cranberry Sauce
Biscuits with Almond Flour
Thanksgiving Pies
Saying that we love pies in this house is a major understatement!
And we love them even more during fall.
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Homemade
Recipe for Chocolate Pecan Pie
Thanksgiving Recipe Desserts
What’s better than a chocolate chip cookie? A nut-free, egg-free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie!
If you’re looking for some other unique recipes for the holidays, check out my Thanksgiving Desserts.
There you’ll find delectable recipes for the below and more!
Thanksgiving Recipe Leftovers
There’s nothing better than waking up the day after Thanksgiving to a fridge full of leftovers.
If you are wondering what to make with turkey leftovers, I’ve got the perfect solutions for you.
Ideas for Leftover Turkey
I love making Turkey Chili, or when the family is in the mood for something more simple, a classic turkey soup.
Alternatively, my Recipe for Turkey Hash is the best part of Thanksgiving dinner folded into a savory leftover Thanksgiving remix.
Onion, squash, and turkey come together to make the most flavorful Thanksgiving recipe leftovers.
Thanksgiving Recipes for Vegans
Don’t worry, I have some great recipes for the vegans in your life too. Check out my:
Thanksgiving Recipes for Vegetarians
And if you’re a vegetarian, you can use the recipes for vegans above as well as the vegetarian items below:
Thanksgiving Recipes Easy
Thanksgiving doesn’t have to be a time of gorging on unhealthy fare or sitting at the table watching others eat and feeling deprived.
With my healthy Thanksgiving recipes, you can enjoy grazing and being full without the high-carb hangover.
What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food or tradition? Leave a comment and let me know!
Kendra says
I am working my way towards paleo again. I was before I got married, then fell off the wagon. I didn’t know how to blend my food with my husband’s tastes for the SAD diet and simply was tired of cooking two meals every night. Thank you so much for making a thanksgiving menu! It just might work for him ;)
Leila says
My family loves sweet potatoes and in the past I’ve always made a sinfully delicious recipe loaded with marshmallows and brown sugar. This past week I experimented with mashed garlic sweet potatoes. They were very good. I think I will be making them for Thanksgiving. All I did was microwave the sweet potatoes to cook them. Then I scooped out the potato and put it in a dish mixing them up good to mash them. I added a half cup of coconut milk, 2 tablespoons of butter, a half teaspoon of salt, and about a tablespoon of minced garlic. Mix it all up good, and they were yummy!
Nicole@ethanksgivingday.com says
Hello Elana,
I love reading through your blog, I wanted to leave a little comment to support you and wish you a good continuation. I love the cooking very much. I like to cook many new thing for every occasion. Now learning some recipes for thanksgiving occasion.
anita says
Hi Elana,
I am on the same page as you regarding diet for the most part and thus love your abundance of recipes and frequently pull up your site on my Iphone in the kitchen when needing a certain dish.
Recently, a local nutritional teacher (who has helped many folks around here with chronic illness including cancer and inflammatory conditions), has been warning about the effects of all nuts on our liver and pancreas as they are lectins and not meant to be eaten in excess. Knowing that you do extensive research on these things, I was wondering if you have some positive news on almond flour that would help legitimize it for me? Did I mention I LOVE your recipes and don’t want to give them up? He says nuts can only be eaten in very, very small amounts only now and then and only with coconut oil to help get it through our system, if we must have them at all.
Help. I will say that I have a good diet, exercise well, but still cannot seem to get rid of some pain now and then in my upper stomach so I am curious if this is the issue!
Ella says
Hi Elana!
I just found your site through a Swedish Internet book store :) (just got your books) and I think it’s amazing! Thank you for sharing all the great tips and recipes.
I read that you avoid agave since it tends to bloat you. I have noticed that agave is used in a lot of your recipes – is there a substitute one can use instead?
Yours sincerely,
Ella
Christina says
What is there left to eat on the Paleo diet? I am gluten and dairy free. Please advise how to find out what to eat? Elana, do you have any other Paleo diet recipes available? Any help from anyone else is greatly appreciated, especially if taking out nightshades? I feel like this is too limiting. Why no grains or legumes either – they are supposed to be healthy food for vegans. Not sure which direction to turn. Please help! Thank you!
Alexandra says
I have suffered for many years being unable to eat wheat and gluten and having “gluten free” never worked for me, and then one day I found almond flour and never knew what exactly to do with it. So it was a constant struggle and disappointment to be eating healthy but no way of knowing how to make it taste good and wanting to always be “normal”. I often would eat things that would make me sick, just to seem normal. Thank you so much for your recipes! You gave me the first Thanksgiving ever where I could eat deliciously and not be harming my body and everything I made was so delicious my non-gluten free family was trying to eat my food over theirs. I will never go back to making myself sick again! You and your recipes are a g-d send! Thank you!
Alicia says
My mother in law made the pecan pie…I tried it cold and then warmed up in the microwave. What a difference warming it up made. It tasted like the regular pecan pie
Leila says
Sounds like I need that recipe. Where can I find it?
Lea says
I love kale and look forward to trying your Kale and Cranberries recipe. I put together a paleo pecan pie recipe recently that I’m pretty happy with. It uses dates, unsweetened applesauce, maple syrup and a bit of molasses as sweetener. http://paleospirit.com/2011/paleo-pecan-pie-tart/
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for all your great recipes.
Amy @ Chefbasket says
This is a great recipe for the family this Thursday. My husband is celiac and glad that I came across your blog and will be trying out your recipes. Happy Thanksgiving!