Christmas Dinner Menus

My criterion for meeting the needs of the person who wants to stay within the low glycemic guidelines, be the host or hostess and still have a great time:

a) not too much prep because it is not a day to spend all your time in the kitchen

b) it has to be scrumptious and look like a holiday feast

c) it cannot cost a fortune!

Before dinner serve a sparkling wine with some good local cheeses and some sliced Granny Smith and any red apples if you wish.

I know what you’re saying, how can this delicious sounding menu be low glycemic…but it is! Here is what you do, you buy a cooked ham that you will heat on Christmas morning. Get a good grass fed one from a natural foods market or from Whole Foods. This is the one splurge. No cooking on Christmas is your treat after spending all of your Thanksgiving morning roasting and wrestling with a turkey. The black beans you soak all night and then cook for an hour in the morning. This black bean recipe (scroll down for black beans) could not be simpler.

This quinoa recipe cooks fast and it is a high protein, low glycemic grain that is very light and goes well with beans and ham.

The green salad can be arugula or mixed dark leafy greens that you can buy prewashed and organic at any super market or natural foods store. You only need a handful of dried cranberries for color. They are high glycemic but not at this amount. Clementine tangerines add a Christmas touch and you can mix it altogether with a good olive oil and lemon dressing. Just blend 6 T. of olive oil to 2 T. of fresh lemon juice, add your favorite seasonings and shake well. Then just add to your salad before serving, 2 T. – 4 T. for a large bowl of salad. Add until all leaves are moistened but the salad is not soggy.

Sprouted grain rolls are made by Alvarado St. Bakery and they will not raise your blood sugar. Yes, you may serve these with real butter.

Now you can justify a small slice of lemon curd tart because nothing you ate was off of your low glycemic eating plan. I make this tart with whole wheat pastry flour and coconut sugar so even it is part of the plan! Any lemon tart recipe can be made low glycemic by substituting the white flour with a whole grain flour and the sucrose or white sugar with coconut sugar or fructose which you can buy at any natural foods market.

This is the plan to make you thin for life and still able to have your cake and eat it too. Holidays are not meant to be a time of stress and recrimination. Au contraire! Christmas dinner menus here will always mean that your Christmas is no stress, a joyous event in which you can feel guilt free and celebrate to your heart’s content. No stress, not much prep, no guilt, no blood sugar roller coasters – just a traditional merry Christmas dinner menu!

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