Folks might think that Paleo deprives you around the holidays. It can, if you let it. I didn’t. With a bit of prep (ok, quite a bit of prep, but hey, we all cook a lot around the holidays), we ate VERY well.
Breakfast:
- Banana pecan pancakes with cranberry maple syrup (100% pure maple syrup with some whole berry, non-corn syruped cranberry sauce mixed in/heated)
- Tea
Snacks:
- Meat candy, from Everyday Paleo cookbook
- Candied bacon

My first attempt at candied bacon. You can use brown sugar or maple syrup, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper. Yum!
Lunch/Dinner/Whatever That Big Christmas Meal is Called:
- Turkey
- Paleo stuffing
- Mashed sweet potatoes (Grandma’s modified recipe boiled/mashed sweet potatoes with a little coconut milk and cooking sherry)
- Homemade applesauce (I was a bit too heavy on the cloves this year.)
- Homemade cranberry sauce
- Broccoli
- Paleo Gingerbread from Paleo Indulgences cookbook
Dessert:
- Whoopie pies
- Skinny mint cookies, from Paleo Indulgences cookbook
Yeah, the whole thing was a bit heavy on the sugar side, but dang, it’s Christmas, and it was yummy, and I don’t pretend to be perfect all the time!