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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes, Menus and Cooking Tips

Thanksgiving is all about abundance or, often, overabundance. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With healthy updates to classic dishes, the recipes showcased here use high-impact flavors like fresh herbs, spices and seasonal fruits and vegetables to minimize the need for gobs of butter, cream and salt. Some dishes are healthy updates on classic dishes, while others are twists on traditional fare.

For the host, we’ve got menus and planners and budget-friendly wines, as well as new ways to use up all those turkey leftovers. If you’ve always felt daunted by the turkey carving process, our step-by-step photos illustrate simple instructions for success, plus other tips for a terrific stress-free holiday. If you’re not hosting this year, choose from our selection of healthy sides and scrumptious desserts. You’ll find nearly everything here to enjoy a delicious, healthy Thanksgiving.

Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes

The great American feast can include plenty of simple, delicious recipes that will leave you satisfied, not stuffed, without all the butter and cream that usually goes into the turkey-day meal. More »

Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes

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Sides and Dessert Recipes to Share

Wow everyone at Thanksgiving dinner by bringing a healthy, flavorful side dish or dessert to share with friends or family. More »

Healthy Thanksgiving Sides and Dessert Recipes

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Thanksgiving Menus and Make-Ahead Planners

For the host, we’ve got menus and planners for a terrific stress-free holiday. A large part of these dinners can be made ahead so that the holiday is spent with your family and friends, not bent over a stove. More »

Healthy Thanksgiving Menus and Planners

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Tips For a Healthier Thanksgiving

With reasonable portion sizes and healthier dishes that don’t sacrifice flavor, Thanksgiving dinner can still be joyful, delicious and healthy. More »

6 Tips For a Healthier Thanksgiving

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Best Holiday Wines

Hard to imagine the holiday season without a glass of wine in hand, right? A great bottle of wine can bring together all the flavors on your table. But which wine do you choose? Here are 10 of our favorite bottles for stress-free wine shopping this holiday season. More »

10 Holiday Wines to Pour and Present

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Turkey Buyer's Guide

Do you need a special turkey or will Perdue do? In the EatingWell Test Kitchen, we roasted more than 20 turkeys, including all-natural and conventional birds, while preparing our Thanksgiving story. Here are some facts to consider about different types of birds. More »

EatingWell's Turkey Buyer's Guide

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Turkey Carving Guide

6 easy steps to a perfectly carved bird. More »

EatingWell's Turkey Carving Guide

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New Uses for Thanksgiving Leftovers

With all the effort that goes into holiday cooking, make sure you have enough for leftovers. These delicious recipes are perfect for your extra turkey and stretch dollars after all that holiday spending. More »

New Ways to Use Leftovers

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Nell Newman's Organic Thanksgiving

Read how one Thanksgiving meal helped launch one of America’s best-loved organic product lines. Plus, find an ingredient source list and tips for serving an all-organic Thanksgiving. More »

Nell Newman's Organic Thanksgiving

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Healthy Thanksgiving Makeover

Try our tricks and techniques for making five classic Thanksgiving recipes lighter, yet still delicious. We've included nutritional comparisons of EatingWell’s Thanksgiving recipes versus more traditional versions of the same foods. More »

Healthier Pumpkin Pie and Four More Makeovers

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USER COMMENTS — Add Your Comment

I would like to print all recipes but without changing to each individual recipe. Can that be done? Marion

Marion Guggenheim, Taylorville, IL

To Lynda from SC: Click on the "Add to my EatingWell" button at the top of the individual recipe page.

Penelope, Burlington, VT

I'm trying to save recipes to my account. How do i do this?

Lynda Madaris, North Augusta, SC

To print only specific items on the web...highlight what you want to print. Right click over the highlighted area and select 'print'. The print dialog box will come up, go to where it says 'Page Range' and click 'Selection'. Then 'Print'. Voila...you have only printed the things you highlighted!

Heidi Messner, Bothell, WA

I agree with the above lady, Marion Guggenheim, Taylorville , Ill. For instance : I want to just print out the healthy turkey cooking tips..... ??

Maddy, Bushnell, FL

I would like to see some healthy recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers.

Sonja Steis, Grosse Pointe Park, MI

Does someone have recipes cooking with honey and other healthy web sites?

Janis, Houston, TX

I would like to see some healthy desserts.

Marina Stanley, Youngstown, NY

I saw a recipe for a vegetarian stew cooked inside of a pumpkin or squash and it looked very good. Now I am looking for it on line and can not find it. Can you help? My email is whisperingwindarabians@yahoo.com

Dorinda Robinson, Cleveland Heights, OH

all of the recipies on here are awsome i am taking one of them to school to have one of my classes try them

Samantha Heichel, Snow Shoe, PA

Are there any healthy pumpkin pie recipes?

Gloria, Springfield, IL

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