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Healthy Holiday Eating Tips
Explore practical tips with Community wellness coordinator at LifeBridge Health Sherri Zaslow for maintaining healthier eating habits during the festive winter season, particularly in the context of Jewish holiday celebrations like Hanukkah. This discussion highlights the traditional foods associated with these celebrations, such as fried donuts and latkes, and offers healthier alternatives to these high-calorie dishes. The conversation emphasizes the importance of moderation and presents innovative cooking methods, such as utilizing ovens instead of frying, and air frying for donuts. Join us as we strive to encourage healthier eating choices during holiday festivities, engaging communities in educational cooking events and promoting mindful eating practices. Discover how to enjoy festive foods without overindulging while staying connected with cultural traditions.
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So in the winter I think most people attend a lot of holiday celebrations. So in the Jewish community it's Hanukkah and of course there's the you know New Year's and whether or not you're any religion you're probably doing a lot of holiday parties within your work area or where you live or your friends or your children and the food at these things I mean let's face it nobody's really eating celery so with the Jewish community the big thing to eat on Hanukkah believe it or not are donuts which are fried in oil so let's get the sugar going in that the fried and it's it's a little bit disastrous so sometimes we try to have something a a little healthier. Oh, the other food is called latkes or like fried potato pancakes. So sometimes we do a cooking event at the center between like Bridge Health and the Jewish Community Center where like we're using sweet potatoes and instead of frying them in oil, we're putting them in the oven and we're not adding so many ingredients. The same, believe it or not, with the donuts, I actually tried a couple of years to do like a healthier version in an air fryer, not fried. So at least people have options. And with all that, we wanna at least encourage moderation, you know, instead of like big donuts, you know, they have a little munchkins or a half a donut or just learning how to do that. So again, just trying to bring more programs to people to make them aware is very challenging in the winter, especially because let's face it, most of us just wanna eat that stuff. We don't wanna hear the good things about it. So we try to make it encouraging. you
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