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5 Healthier Store-Bought Thanksgiving Substitutes

Made with organic wheat flour and natural flavors from spices like

rosemary, sage, and thyme, Arrowhead Mills Organic Stuffing is your

healthiest option. No matter how much of a healthy eater you are,

Thanksgiving just isn’t the same without the stuffing. Try this brand

and you’ll be more than satisfied.

Arrowhead Mills Organic Stuffing, Savory HerbThis cranberry sauce, or almost any other that

offers cranberry relish instead of sauce, is a

healthier option than traditional sauce. This type

in particular only consists of three ingredients:

whole cranberries, cane sugar, and water. This

makes this brand one of the most natural and

healthy options when compared to most of the

other cranberry sauces found in stores. With

whole natural ingredients and a delicious taste and

consistency, this sauce should be at the top of

your shopping list for this year’s Thanksgiving

dinner.

New England Colonial Cranberry Sauce

Instead of baking or buying sugary, chemically-

induced bread, feast your eyes on Ezekiel’s

Sprouted Cinnamon Raisin bread. It’s delicious and

only has a slightly different consistency than other

breads, while keeping its sweet taste. Slice and

toast up a loaf with some butter and jam or brie

and figs and enjoy. This bread is made with no

flour, no refined sugars, and is made up of

complex carbohydrates, making it one of the few

healthy bread products on the market.

Ezekiel 4:9 Cinnamon Raisin Sprouted Whole Grain Bread

Instead of opting for a store-bought pie, why not

make your own! All that’s needed for this dessert

is sugar-free, fat-free butterscotch Jell-O pudding

mix, a can of pumpkin pie filling, plain Greek

yogurt, and a ready-made pie crust. Mix the

ingredients together, scoop it them into the pie

crust, refrigerate for one hour and you’ve got

yourself a healthier, protein-packed, no-bake

pumpkin pie! Oftentimes, “healthier” options when

it comes to desserts are time consuming, taste

wildly different than their less healthy counter-

parts, or cost twice as much. Luckily, this recipe

cheats all of that.

No-Bake Pumpkin Pie

Bolthouse makes its creamy dressings using Greek yogurt, ringing

in the calorie count to only 45 per serving. Compared to other

store-bought creaming dressings that typically have close to 200

calories per serving, this brand is a much healthier option for your

Thanksgiving salad. This brand also makes its dressings low fat

with less than three grams per serving, compare to the about 15

grams often found in other popular ranch dressing brands. The

best part about this dressing is that it still tastes delicious.

Bolthouse Farms Greek Yogurt Classic Ranch

In theory, we would all love to cook a lavish traditional, made-from-scratch Thanksgiving dinner. Store-bought foods can often be on the unhealthier side, but that doesn’t have to always be the case. You don’t have to sacrifice taste and flavor for the sake of healthier holiday eating. If you want to stay on the healthier side

(and also save a little preparation time), we’ve listed a few store-bought gems to give you a few helpful shortcuts this holiday season.

Make sure that you have these on your table this Thanksgiving.