Healthy Patient Thanksgiving and Fall Recipes 2022

The holidays are upon us! This season is an amazing opportunity for your patients to spend time with family and friends, relax and have fun. However, the buzz around the holidays is also sugar and alcohol-induced, and often calorically dense—not incredible for patients who are facing difficulties with their health or trying to reach certain goals.

One way to overcome this difficulty is to encourage patients to ditch the processed foods and sugary holiday drinks from Starbucks or Dunkin and instead make their meals from scratch with healthy ingredients like plant-based sweeteners, vegetables, non-dairy milks and almond flour.

BodySite is here to help healthcare providers better help patients with ditching and switching to healthier ingredients for all their favorite Fall recipes. Below are a few recipes your patients can make, whether they’re relaxing at home or celebrating Thanksgiving with their family.

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Sweet Can Be Healthy!

This carrot dish is the perfect side to bring to a festive get together like Thanksgiving, but is easy enough to whip up on any given week night. 

Fresh and Crisp for Fall

This salad is excellent because it combines wonderful fall flavors with vitamin K rich arugula, vitamin B rich gorgonzola and antioxidant rich pomegranate seeds. Plus the homemade dressing is easy, and much cheaper and healthier than store-bought.

Cocktails Are Out. Mocktails Are In.

Cocktails are so last year. Mocktails are all the rage. Enjoy all the flavor of a traditional cocktail, but with the added benefits of hydration and natural sugars in the blackberries. This fruity, forest mocktail is great for parties and easy to assemble. 

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Guides Are Great. Tracking Is Even Better.

We would love for patients to remain compliant with their doctors’ advice this holiday season, but 9 times out of 10, they will slip up somewhere. If your patients need to track what they’re eating over the holidays, look no further than BodySite.

BodySite’s food tracker has an incredible food database and natural language search available on desktop and mobile app for both provider and patient, as well as bar code food scanning.

The BodySite food search consists of nearly 631,000 grocery items, 137,000 restaurant items and 26,000 common foods with photos and user-friendly ordering of results. You can simply type in whatever you like, and we’ll find it. Patients and providers can view patients tracked foods, calories, nutrition facts, macros and more, in real time.

The biggest issue with patients gaining weight over the holidays is not knowing how the foods they’re eating affect their health goals. Tracking will allow you and your patients to get the full picture this holiday season.

In addition to giving your patients a place to track their foods, it’s also important to give them a care plan to follow. Considering using BodySite’s Healthy Holidays 25-Day Meal Plan or its 12 Days of Christmas Stretching Plan (coming December 1) so that patients have your support and guidance remotely while they’re enjoying the holidays with their family and friends.

If you’re looking for a remote patient care solution that gives patients a simple way to track food and biometrics, allows you to easily monitor progress, and gives you an automated way to guide and support patients virtually, check out BodySite.com. If you’re not already using BodySite, click here to claim your 30-day free trial.