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Healthy Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen

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Featured Recipes: Maple-Nut Granola, Blueberry-Pecan Pancake Mix, Spanish Rub, Cranberry-Walnut Quick Bread

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Recipes and sources for homemade holiday gifts.

At this time of year, you often hear that ’tis better to give than to receive. Forget the standard gift certificates and socks—why not whip up some holiday gifts from your kitchen to give to family and friends? From subtly spiced nuts to homemade granola to rich, velvety chocolate sauces, you’ll find something to please everyone on your holiday gift-giving list this year. And only you need to know how healthy it is!

Confections | Sauces | Baked Goods | Sources | More Recipes | Printable Holiday Gift Tags

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Confections

Sauces & Such

Baked Goods

Printable Holiday Gift Tags

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Sources

A couple of sources for lollipop bags and cellophane bags are Kitchen Krafts, kitchenkrafts.com, (800) 776-0575, and New York Cake and Baking Distributors, nycake.com, (800) 942-2539.

You can find longer cinnamon sticks for making lollipops in natural-foods stores and from The Great American Spice Company, americanspice.com.

Look for spice jars, decorative canisters and reusable jars for packaging homemade gifts like spice rubs, granola or pancake mixes at cooking.com/eatingwell or Crate & Barrel.

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Thank you sooooooooo much for the breakfast recipes I found accidentally on-line. I needed something special to make for Christmas breakfast and the Cranberry pancakes sound wonderful. Your recipes seem easy and healthy - what more could a mom concerned about the health of her family ask for!! Merry Christmas and thank you again!! Sue

Sue Svarplaitis, New Milford, CT

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