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Thanksgiving recipes to keep your diet on track
Northeast Georgia Health System offers healthy holiday cooking class
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Karen Turpin attended the healthy holidays cooking demonstration and said the cranberry sauce tasted “just like grandma’s.” The sauce is made with honey rather than white sugar. - photo by Liset Cruz
Healthy eating and the holidays rarely go hand-in-hand, but there are ways to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner without totally blowing your diet. Northeast Georgia Health System offered a class on healthy holiday cooking last Wednesday at its Gainesville campus as a part of its monthly free Wellness in the Kitchen series. Clinical dietician Brandi Crumley helped coordinate recipes for the demonstration, which included a cranberry sauce with honey instead of sugar; a rustic charred squash salad instead of cheesy casseroles; a crustless pumpkin pie; and a low-sodium roasted turkey.