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Hello! How is your week going?
Last night I went to my little brother’s Christmas concert. I appreciate your song suggestions, but they refused to play any of the requests I shouted out. I think I mostly just embarrassed him. Ha! That’s what big sisters are for!
Kidding.
This morning I snacked on an apple-banana from my neighbor. They have a tree and when it’s ready it gives off like 98 of them at once so they hook us up.
Plus some epic granola clusters from my SECRET SANTA! More on this soon 
Christmas is coming fast and I know I’ve already fallen off the healthy eating wagon a few times. Part of me wants to just say ‘F it’ until New Year’s but I know that’s not the smart decision (plus I’d be pissed at myself later).
So, I have some tips from a registered dietician below to help me/you/us? stay on track this season PLUS a great giveaway from Benefiber.
How to Stay Healthy During the Holidays
Tips from registered dietitian Elisa Zied
1. Don’t waste calories, especially on treats and desserts that don’t do it for you. Instead, spend your treat calories on a few bites of your favorite indulgences to feel more satisfied on less food.
2. If you find yourself having one too many bites of your favorite indulgence at each holiday get-together, why not create a new tradition?! Fill (but don’t stuff) one plate with small portions of your favorite foods to enjoy and savor. When your plate is near-clean, apply lipstick or take a swish of mouthwash and head for a quick brisk walk to signal the end of eating.
3. Even though you might be trying new treats during the holidays, make sure you’re still getting the nutrients your body needs. Fruits and veggies are great to munch on for vitamins and nutrients.
4. Instead of wearing loose fitting clothes to your next holiday get-together, button up! Show off your figure with some fitted attire (at least in your under layer). That’ll help you feel full faster and resist the urge to take one too many bites or sips.
5. Don’t go to a holiday party or dinner starving. Instead, enjoy a protein- or fiber-rich power snack 1-2 hours before you get there. One cup nonfat milk or yogurt or a piece of cheese, 1 small piece (or 1/2 cup) fruit, and 1 tablespoon nuts/seeds fills you up and can reduce the likelihood you’ll eat to an extreme at the main event. Although food is the best first source of fiber, when you fall short, making a fiber supplement like Benefiber part of your daily routine can help you feel fuller longer so you are less hungry at holiday parties.
I love tip #1 – don’t ‘waste’ calories on foods that aren’t your favorite. It’s like a bank, only spend it on things you really want! And don’t feel bad when you do pick something that’s your favorite – enjoy it.
I love See’s Candy and tamales! This is the one time of year when my Nana makes tamales at home – they are delicious and I eat ‘em up.
Benefiber is giving one RER reader a container of their fiber supplement (I’ve been sneaking it in random things, and never taste it) and a $100 AmEx gift card! I vote you spend it on something pretty to wear to a holiday party, but that’s just me.
Benefiber and $100 AmEx Gift Card Giveaway
To Enter: Leave a comment with your favorite holiday food or drink.
Closes 12/14/13 at 8am PST. Open to residents of the US.
Disclaimer: This post is part of my partnership with Benefiber. All opinions are my own.
Gingerbread cookies!
Love my mom’s Christmas cookies! 🙂
Peppermint Mocha!
I have to have eggnog come the holidays. I will do half nog half milk, still delish!
MyMy favorite food is sweet potatoe casserolee
I love hot apple cider!
My Grandma makes a Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie that is to die for!
My sister-in-law makes a coffee cake that we have on Christmas and that I remember fondly the entire year!
I love almond rocha and only crave it this time of year. The fact that it gets stuck in my teeth every time is probably the reason why I only indulge in December!
My favorite holiday food is fudge
Love fudge and homemade chocolate covered pretzels…yumm:)
Growing up, it was my moms elaborately decorated sugar christmas cookies. Now I’m gluten free, so I basically look forward to all the gluten free junk food that’s too expensive to have regularly or too much trouble to make. 🙂 yay “special time of year!”
I love apple cider mimosas
Sweet potato casserole is my weakness! With marshmallows!
I love my lindt chocolate advent calendar! I am getting pretty used to that little treat every day
I love any Christmas cookie.
Homemade lasagna- Not sure it really screams X-Mas but we have it every year!
My Favorite holiday drink is hot chocolate! It makes me feel all festive.
my grandmother’s fudge recipe – the ABSOLUTE best! 🙂
i love cut-out christmas cookies with frosting. can’t have a year go by without making them! my new tradition for the past few years has been to make them on christmas eve with my younger step-sister
Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. So so good.
chocolate covered nuts!!!
Pandoro!
Definitely the cocktails =)
The list in my head is embarrassingly long, so i’ll just say pumpkin bars with gingersnap crumple.
My favorite holiday food would have to be the steak and crab legs brunch my immediate family does every Christmas morning after presents. I look forward to it every year!
Christmas cookies !
This isn’t really holiday, but for xmas morning breakfast my aunt always makes french toast casserole, which I never have any other time of year! DELISH!
Cookies! Especially iced sugar cookies. Yum 🙂
Sangria and apple cider.
Peppermint ANYTHING, especially Trader Joe’s peppermint joe-joe’s!
I love anything dark chocolate, but I really love all desserts. When I go to Christmas parties or potlucks, I don’t waste time on packaged bakery. I can buy a box of Oreos anytime. Have an awesome weekend!
A friend of my Mom’s send a batch of nut roll cookies every year. I can’t wait until she gets them this year!
homemade gingersnaps!
Mmmmmm! My mom’s nut horn cookies. When I smell those, it’s Christmastime.
Christmas cookies!! 🙂
I love 7 Layer Magic Cookie Bars!
peanut butter blossoms!
My favorite holiday drink is glogg – it’s a warm, Norwegian Christmas wine that’s made with red wine, vodka/brandy, sugar, and spices. It’s so delicious. And very potent.
Mulled wine… mmmmmmmm.
Christmas Cookies is my go-to holiday splurge.
my favorite holiday food would have to be some healthy molasses cookies!
My favorite holiday food is stuffing and cheesy potatoes!
My favorite holiday treat is frosted sugar cookies!
My favorite holiday treat are the White Fudge Covered Oreos- holy smokes, I need weight loss rehab after coming into contact with a box of those.
Favorite drink: Egg nog
Favorite dessert: Everything
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Bacon wrapped dates stuffed with goat cheese are a favorite! They are amazing! And red wine…lots of it…:-)
I love candy canes & hot chocolate after coming in the house from sledding true Christmas fun!
I love peanut brittle!
I love frosted sugar cut-out cokies.
I can’t go without my mom’s “Butter Yum” cookies. They probably have 1000 lbs of butter in them and they are amazing! And as for the drink…I don’t think I have one. Of course wine with dinner is great, and hot chocolate on Christmas morning is wonderful, but I don’t have a go-to in this area.
Favorite food: Cookies. Favorite Drink: Hot Chocolate. MMM i think i may go eat a cookie and drink hot chocolate right now 🙂
I like tamales and Pozole as a Christmas meal.
I love mint M&M’s -you can only find them this time of year! Favorite drink is Hot Chocolate with whipped cream 🙂
Favorite food-biscuits and gravy (totally a southern girl). Favorite drink-beer….. I think I’m doomed.
I love peanut butter blossom cookies…oh my goooodness!
I love warm apple cider! Also obsessed with anything gingerbread!
i LOVE the hersheys peppermint kisses! White chocolate with little peppermint pieces. They just taste like christmas!
Nut kiffels
My favorite holiday treat would have to be egg nog. So delicious!!
Mmmm I love a good steak and champagne. So random but so good.
We have homemade crumb cake every year – the only time during the year!
I love peppermint bark!!!! It is my favorite!!
I love my mom’s anise seed cookies. It doesn’t feel like Christmas without them! 🙂
My dad always makes a traditional Yule Log and it is amazing! We all wait for it all year and fight over it when it comes out!
Pumpkin pie is still my favorite I’m going to make another one tonight 🙂 also I love trader joes gingerbread coffee!
Gingerbread!
My favorite is the homemade chocolate-covered caramels my mom and I used to make. They put Rolos to shame.
I love spiked apple cider! Such a great way to warm you up.
Pumpkin anything!!
My favvvvorite holiday food is chocolate chip panetone. The best. It’s like a chocolate croissant in cake form.
My favorite holiday food is my uncle’s pies that he only makes during the holidays. I also love the peppermint ice cream you can get in the stores this time of year. And of course, Peppermint White Chocolate Mochas at Starbucks!
Any kind of cookie, brownie, or candy!
Peppermint Bark!!
My favorite holiday food is pecan pie.
My favorite holiday food is the frosted sugar cookies we have made every year since I could stand – we usually covered the kitchen in sugar by the time we were done!
Homemade sugar cookies with frosting are the bomb.com
My favorite holiday treat is peppermint bark!
My favorite is pecan pie!
Christmas cookies!!!
Definitely eggnog! I get the light version and mix it with almond milk so it’s 1/2 milk 1/2 eggnog and mmm it’s so good 🙂 I could only have it once this time of year though without getting sick of it!
Moscow mules
Wassil punch and apple juice!
I go crazy for anything pumpkin from November through the end of the year! I add it to quinoa, oatmeal, smoothies, and of course have to get pumpkin coffee drinks from Starbucks!
A little spiked egg nog on Christmas Eve!
i make toffee for christmas only! (then package it up to give away immediately for fear of eating it all) 😉 thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
I love homemade applesauce and potato pancakes (latkes). my fik’s bbq Turkey is prettyepic as well.
peppermint bark!
Peanut biscuits during Chinese New Year!
Homemade cookies!
Monkey bread and Peppermint Mocha
Dunkin Donuts hot chocolate!! Mmm! Perfect alongside some homemade Christmas cookies!
Buckeyes or Oreo balls
My favorite Christmas food is all the different CHRISTMAS COOKIES!!!!! 🙂 Yum!
Natillas!
Chocolate fudge and krispie clusters (and of course Diet Pepsi to wash it down)!
coffee with eggnog!
egg nog and gingerbread anything
Pumpkin cheesecake!!
Favorite holiday food are mum’s gingersnaps and peanut butter blossoms. Word.
I am a sucker for cookies. Any shape, size…yummy!
I just discovered my favorite Christmas treat…Hot Chocolate Cookies!!! amazing!
I couldn’t LIVE without my grandma’s pernil (basically, pork) and mofongo (smushed plantains made into deliciousness)!
Homemade Slovak pierogi !
Sugar cookies
Homemade cherry mash! AMAZING!
My grandma’s homemade carrot cake (: YUUUUUM!
I love peppermint mochas!!! Those are thebomb.com.
I love homemade tamales!
I love iced sugar cookies – the cut out shapes make them even more delicious.
I have a deep love for white chocolate covered pretzels!!
Eggnog and rum balls
My moms choco cherries
Oh man, I wait all year for peppermint bark! It doesn’t have much appeal to me the rest of the year, but during the holidays there’s nothing better!
Pumpkin pie all the way.
My grandmother’s made from scratch yeast rolls with drizzled icing sugar. Family traditions 😉
Cookies!!!! I love sugar cookies and butter cookies and well, any and all cookies. Oh and rum balls! Wait.. I was supposed to decide on one thing? Not possible
I love Puerto Rican Coquito!
My grandmas fudge!
Well my family is Italian and my favorite treat is a sweet that we only eat at Christmas called Struffoli. I can’t wait to get my hands on it!!!!!! I wait literally all year for this!
Christmas cookies!
My favorite holiday food is christmas cookies!
Oof there was a huge box of See’s candy calling my name at work today. I had 1 piece and resisted more. Miracles happen!
I’m currently obsessed with Christmas Cookies…
Deviled eggs and iced sugar cookies….but not together 🙂
I love anything pumpkin….pumpkin bread, pie…anything!
Love the combo of honey baked ham and homemade mac ‘n’ cheese!
Frosted sugar cookies!
My family makes an amazing three fruit sauce for Hanukkah!
My favorite is chocolate no bake oatmeal cookies!!!
I’m not a big on dessert, but I can’t pass up a good pecan pie!
Peppermint hot chocolate
My favorite holiday food is homemade toffee!
Frosted sugar cookies!
I love candy canes.
It’s simple! Can’t get enough!
Ham!
I LOVE fudge, especially peanut butter and its so easy to eat a ton of the stuff. I’m definitely not going to be “wasting” calories when I eat that!
peppermint hot chocolate
My favorite is green bean casserole 🙂
Caribu White Hot Chocolates!!!
My favorite holiday food is crab. Our crab season always opens right before Christmas, so we have a crab feast on Christmas Eve. Also, my birthday is the 23rd, and I always have a sushi party, so I always associate homemade sushi with the holiday season. A more typical holiday favorite—my mom’s pumpkin cheesecake!
mmmm pumpkin cookies! or hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows 🙂
My new favorite this year is snicker doodle flavored milk.
The reindeer munch chex mix stuff
My favorite holiday food would have to be the cookies! Especially jam thumbprint cookies.
True holiday fave? Pumpkin muffins!
My favorite holiday drink is flavored hot chocolate, it really warms my heart!
white russians with a peppermint rim!
Derby pie is delish!
My favorite holiday food is the oatmeal cran-raisin cookies I bake as gifts!
Christmas cookies ftw!
Homemade caramels! Yum! 🙂
I love Christmas cookies and eggnog! Yummy!
I cannot get enough of holiday cookies and saltine “crack”! (saltines covered in melted butter and brown sugar and topped with chocolate – turns out like toffee and is sooooo addicting!) thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I love my grandma’s oatmeal cut out cookie recipe. I could eat a batch by myself!!
I have to have gingerbread & molasses cookie at this time of year – HAVE TO!!!!! 🙂
Chocolate and white chocolate covered pretzel sticks are probably my most favorite holiday treat. Sweet & salty.
Frosted sugar cookies! And hot chocolate is very holiday-ish. Flavored coffees are fun too! Everything is better around the holidays 🙂
WINE for days !
Pumpkin bread and christmas cookies!
Peppermint mocha from Starbucks!
Tamales, tamales de dulce, champurrado, ponche!
My fav holiday drink is eggnog!
I can’t even tell you how much I love stuffing.
oreo balls. definitely oreo balls.
Coffee with some Bailey’s on Christmas morning 🙂
Hands down, Strawberry Pretzel Salad! Plus it is a salad, right?! 😉
My favorite holiday treat is chocolate gingerbread cookies. It is a family tradition!
Peppermint M&Ms and peppermint coffee creamer!
Ooh pecan pie, hot coco, cream cheese Christmas cookies, ham, peppermint and cinnamon anything! I could go on forever! Also all Christmas flavored coffee creamers!
Christmas sugar cookies are the best 🙂
Eggnog and gingerbread cookies!
Things wrapped in bacon. I loose all restraint when I see that every familiar toothpick signifying bacon glory…. yeah I may have a problem.
Country ham and red eye gravy. Weird tradition but delicious.
Any dessert with peanut butter and chocolate. Buckeyes…. Yum!
Okay I know this won’t help anyone stay on track but my favorite holiday food would have to be gingerbread men cookies.
I fall for any dip with cream cheese in it. Shameful but true!
Hello,
I really appreciate these ideas for Holiday Food eating! Thanks for posting them. I agree that we should just allow ourselves to eat bits of our “favorite” things. I know that if I deny myself from eating them altogether, I tend to get moody, then end up craving them even more later. If I just take bites (or for my favorites, the full item), I’m a happy camper and can just “move on.”
Anyways, to answer this Giveaway Question for the Benefiber and $100 AmEx card (which would be awesome!!!), my favorite holiday food is Fudge (followed closely by Gingerbread Cookies) and Egg Nog (yep…I love the “all-out-rich” stuff!)
~Amy
COOKIES. The good news is, they are everywhere! The bad news is… they are everywhere. 🙂
Mom’s pecan pie is all I want at the holidays!!
I love eggnog!!
I love my mom’s homemade Christmas cookies!
I love snickerdoodles with tea around the holidays!
I like good old fashion chocolate cookies. They’re always my favorite any time of year.
Peppermint schanpps hot chocolate and fudge!
The first thing that came to mind was sweet potato pie. But in general I like anything with peppermint.
I love my grandmother’s molasses cookies!
dark chocolate peppermint bark! And cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning! mmmm
Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favorite!
I love holiday teas, especially cookie flavored teas.
How do I get to taste Nana’s tamales? Now that you are recovered from all those races how about some great training with the Sole Runners? I hope I win the $100.
My mom’s homemade peanut butter fudge!
snowballs/mexican wedding cookies/russian tea cookies…
you know, those super yummy shortbread cookies with chopped nuts that are rolled in powdered sugar? everyone calls them something different but they are my favorite! and gingerbread cookies. and eggnog!!! yum yum yum
Love Pumpkin Pie. Can’t get enough of it!
Orange-ginger cookies rolled in sugar, fresh out’ the oven!
Homemade peanut clusters
Hot chocolate!
Spiced wine or hot chocolate!
My favorite holiday drink is a cranberry ginger margarita! Pretty and delish!
Apple crisp!!!
Fave drink: sugar free hot chocolate spiked with peppermint schnapps!
Fave food: ooh too many to list! I’d have to pick my mom’s rugulach cookies – yummo!
Coffee and homemade pumpkin pie!
I love Martinelli’s apple cider. I know not super holiday but as a kid I only had it at the holidays and it reminds me of this time of year.
I am a bread girl, and I love homemade rolls with homemade jam. Yumm. I could eat those over dessert 9 times out of 10! Actually, I could eat 9 rolls out of 10… yikes.
I love the traditional sugar cookies – part of it might have to do with the memories of making cookies for Santa with my cousins!
Chocolate crinkle cookies are my holiday favorite!!
My favorite holiday treat is sugar cookies!
Pumpkin Pie with real whipped cream, OMG, amazing!!!!
potato latkes for Chanukah and all the Harry & David Moose Munch that our vendors at work send to the office as gifts this time of year!
Hot apple cider! And Christmas cookies 🙂
My favorite Christmas treat is definitely my grandmother’s sausage balls…spicy, cheesy goodness! Yummy!
Chocolate chip cookies-also booze!
Love Peppermint Muddy Buddies and white chocolate peppermint pretzels!
Christmas sugar cookies made with the kids! 🙂
White chocolate peppermint pretzels 🙂
Shortbread cookies
peppermint jojo’s from trader joe’s
Sugar cookies!
Eggnog! Thanks for the contest!!
I absolutley love chocolate fudge and peppermint mochas!
warm apple cider with mulling spices & rum… so cozy and delicious.
I love gingerbread cookies!!!
ALL of the baked goods!
pecan pie…
Pretty much anything my mom makes….. but especially snowball cookies!!!!!! SOOOO good
i love my grandma’s homemade german cookies!
My favorite holiday food is definitely roasted brussel sprouts! We have them every Christmas, and I love them!
I love eggnog, but it has to be homemade. Yum!
I can’t live without carrot cake and cheese cakes during this time of year. I try not to over do it but I find myself eating carrot cake for breakfast with a big glass of milk if I have it at my house.
I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!
My favorite holiday drink is anything with alcohol! Gotta get through the season 🙂
My favorite holiday drink is definitely ‘spiked hot chocolate’ so yummy! My favorite holiday food has to be all the cookies especially snicker doodles. Yumm 🙂
My favorite holiday food are pasteles! They are a traditional Puerto Rican Christmas dish which is basically meat (chicken or pork) stuffed inside of a green banana (plantain) and wrapped in the banana leaves and boiled.
I eat them over steamed white rice smothered in ketchup!
Ice Cream> I could eat it by the truck load.
Tamales!
Cookies. I eat WAY too many damn cookies this time of year.
Favorite holiday food is definitely cookies!
Hot chocolate with eggnog!!
I love a strong white russian!
I love any and all cookies!! They are plentiful during the holidays 🙂
Just one???? Probably my grandmother’s stollen bread 🙂
My favorite holiday food is my sister’s apple pie. I will have to wait until February when she come to visit me to get it though.
Favorite holiday food is definitely cookies. I bake them more than ever this time of year to give away to folks…and eat many myself!
the savory food wins at Christmas! I love the casseroles!
I love to make The Engine 2 Diet Raise the Roof Sweet Potato Lasagna! You can google it to find the recipe, it’s so filling and very healthy! Perfect for the cold snowy weather! 🙂
I am all about the pumpkin pie! Hmm…maybe I should sneak some Benefiber into that?
My mom’s fudge!
Favorite holiday treat!? I would say gingerbread cookies or sugar cookies! 🙂
Cookies and peppermint bark 🙂
my sister makes fudge every year – it’s super simple but so so yummy 🙂
My mom makes the best cornbread dressing and homemade sugar cookies (which we decorate together every year)! It’s not Christmas without them. 🙂
Hillbilly breakfast that my husband’s grandma makes every Christmas morning. Biscuits and gravy, sausage, fried potatoes, and fried apples… yum!
Spiked egg nog. Although the above poinsettia drink sounds good. I may have to try it.
OMG…..have you tried the White Trash Snack Mix? It’s sooooo good. That and homemade Christmas cookies — yummmmm!
Eggnog, but just one serving 🙂
Gingerbread White Chocolate cookies! Soooo delicious! I make a big batch pick out my favorites and send the rest to work with my husband!
I LOVE homemade cinnamon rolls. I just made some last night to give to our neighbors and I now have 8 pans in my kitchen! They are the real deal…whole milk, real butter, tons of sugar….Om nom nom!!!
I make a killer peppermint mocha fudge. It’s my Christmas-time downfall!
Christmas cookies for Santa. So many good memories in every bite!
anything peppermint! I hate pumpkin, so I get so excited when everything switches from “Pumpkin spice” to Peppermint.
Yum! My favorite are red and green M&Ms!
Dessert, all of them. I make batches and batches of dessert and not all of them are christmas-sy but for whatever reason I only make them once a year LOL
Homemade needham’s, a Christmas baking tradition!
I can’t say no to the dessert table at Christmas-the peanut butter crackers dipped in chocolate are my favorite!
My favorite holiday food is party mix with cheez its and bugles!
Food: Anything candy!
Drink: Hot chocolate
Hmmm favorite holiday food would be my peanut butter/chocolate oatmeal clusters- like a candy/cookie! and drink is Prosecco or a sparkling wine like Asti Spumante!
Spiked hot chocolate and pumpkin pie!!
My fave holiday food is my mom’s chocolate-covered cherry cookies. MmMmmmmmm.
My white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies!
My favorite Christmas food/tradition is making sugar cookies with my mom and daughter!
Stuffing!!
Sugar cookies and hot chocolate.
Wintertime Faves: PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE, See’s candy (scotchmallows, butterscotch squares, and coconut specials in a three way tie)… and, Sourdough bread hot from the oven with butter and warm soup!
TAMALES!!!
I LIVE on Monkey Bread during the holidays. Bonus points if eaten warm in the glow of the christmas tree 🙂
my favorite holiday drink rum chata…can i say that?! have you tried it?! oh.my.
It’s hard to pick just one favorite, but my mom’s homemade pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting are to die for!
Chocolate pumpkin cookies and pumpkin lattes
I LOVE THE CHRISTMAS COOKIES!!!!!
My favorite holiday food and drink would have to be
1. Pumpkin cheesecake – its amazing
2. eggnog (non-alcoholic and with 1 ice cube in a tiny kiddie cup) weird – yes, i know
3.Green bean casserole
Sugar cookies!!
Hot chocolate with whipped cream
Drink: skinny peppermint mocha from Starbucks.
Food: gingerbread!
Yum!
my mom makes amazing mint chocolate brownies-and I don’t even like chocolate that much! This totally applied at work last night-one of the women I work with had chocolate caramels-which I don’t like that much-and everyone was having one-but I was saving my calories for the mug of cereal I really wanted when I got home!
I love making cookies with my son for Santa.
Love sugar cookies and grandma’s homemade caramels.
Peppermint bark is my favorite holiday treat!
Ive always loved those “jingles” cookies that only come out around christmastime
All of my mom’s holiday cookies! She gets started early and does: chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, chocolate crinkles, butter cookies and more! I love all of the variety and cookies from scratch are always the best 🙂
I loooooooooove all of my family’s many kinds of Christmas cookies! Some of my favorites are gingerbread cookies and sugar twists 🙂
I love almost anything peppermint flavored. When you mix peppermint with brownie watch out.
My favorite holiday goodie is homemade almond roca which is why I make it last so that it’s not hanging around my house weeks before Christmas.
My favorite holiday foods are ALL.the.desserts! My cousin makes an epic pumpkin cheesecake and a caramel/chocolate turtle pie (love her!)
Chocolate covered toffees from this teeny tiny chocolate shop in my home town.
Brownies and lemon cake…man, I’m hungry. I need a cookie. 🙂
My favorite holiday “snack” is saltine candy! I start dreaming about it in October and usually have a batch made by November. But this year, I haven’t even made one batch yet. I hope to remedy that soon (but I also think it signals that I’m behaving this holiday season. – Yay me!)
gingerbread!
Egg with whipped cream and lots of cinnamon. It is Christmas in a glass. Preferably a wine class ‘cuz it makes me feel classy!
Cookies, any homemade Christmas cookies!!
Favorite holiday drink has to be some kind of eggnog – I only drink it during the holidays, it makes it extra special!
I love homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
GINGERBREAD!! Anything GINGERBREAD!!
My moms oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
I love Christmas cookies. My mom makes a ton! And a little cup of eggnog to go along 🙂
homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
Eggnog and chocolate chip cookies or sugar cookies!!
Gingerbread men. I eat their heads off first. :-O
Buckeyes or chocolate covered peanutbutter Ritz cracker sandwiches!
Ghirardelli peppermint bark has to take the cake on this one!! 🙂
I looooove pecan pie!
Christmas cookies especially chocolate/minty ones!
Peanut butter blossoms…..YUMMMM!!
I have a fond memory of my grandmother’s drinkable custard – it’s like egg nog but cooked. Topped with whipped cream and fresh nutmeg – delish!
I think eggnog has to be my favorite holiday treat…I only get to have it for one season of the year and it’s great alone or with some extra Christmas joy (alcohol) added in!
My favorite holiday food is just cookies. All cookies. All of the cookies!
I love homemade Christmas cookies! Especially when others make them for me!
Eggnog for sure!
I can’t wait for banana cream pie — yum!
Anything with chocolate and peppermint, my weakness!
Christmas cookies!!! And peppermint mochas 🙂
I love my mom’s homemade fudge. It’s the only time of year she makes it, and she always gives each of us a tin filled with it. It’s delicious and I savor every single piece!
Coffee with Bailey’s SCREAMS Christmas morning for me 🙂
Eggnog everything!
My favorite food at a holiday party? My great-grandma’s sugar cookies. No frosting, just a red hot in the center of it. Yum!
Hot apple cider!
I know people would probably say this is more a Thanksgiving thing, but I absolutely LOVE pumpkin pie!!!!!! Nomm, nomm, nomm 🙂
I love pecan pie and gingerbread! Yum!!
My favorite holiday food is usually the rolls or the entire dessert table. Carbs and sweets!
Lucky, I wish I had a nana that will make me homemade tamales. I just came back from grocery store, they had a section with all the items to make tamales, but I had to buy store bought.:-(. I digress, my favorite holiday food is mashed potatoes made with a ton of butter and cream.
My favorite holiday treat is spiked cider.
Every Christmas Eve we have giant shrimp at my in-laws– it’s the only time of year I eat it, and I love it!
I love christmas cookies – especially chocolate thumbprints with hershey kisses!
Finger foods at parties…anything with cream cheese!
There is no greater pie, than pumpkin pie. Waiting through three seasons to enjoy it takes some serious willpower — making it that much better!
I love tamales too and christmas cookies with coffee and bailies. Mm to the mm.
I looooove me some eggnog! Yum!
Corn casserole, easily!
I looove pumpkin pie with whipped cream!
Gingerbread!! Or peppermint lattes…it might be a tie.
All the different types of Christmas desserts that people deliver to the office or have at parties, peanut brittle, choc. covered pecans, Christmas cookies…
Oh, man, I use Benefiber every single day! At night when I get home I have a giant glass of water I work on all night and put the clear Benefiber in it.
My favorite holiday food is roasted turkey. I know it’s more of a Thanksgiving thing, but I make it for Christmas too because there is nothing better than a fresh roasted turkey in my book!
Peppermint Mochas from Starbucks. They make my life so much better.
I love pumpkin pie – yum!
I’m a sucker for Christmas shaped sugar cookies with icing and sprinkles! Oh, and Angies white peppermint kettle corn. I swear I could eat the whole bag without realizing it….
Egg nog is my favorite drink this time of year, especially in my coffee!
Every year, our family makes these awesome sugar cookies that l cannot seem to get enough of. My favorite part is eating the dough while we make them and eating them right when they come out of the oven. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
Favorite Christmas drink is cider spiked with a little rum or vodka. =)
I LOVE homemade Chex mix (the packaged stuff, not so much). I try to convince myself it’s healthy because there are nuts, and cereal. But even though I know it’s not…I still eat it.
Peppermint martinis – delicious and festive! Hard to only have one though!
Red Velvet cake and gingerbread cookies!
favorite holiday drink would be prosecco…. but actually to be honest i don’t save it for only holidays 🙂
I LOVE homemade cookies. 🙂
Buckeyes are my biggest weakness! PB & Chocolate… holy moly!
Egg nog! Especially in my coffee. Yummo!
My absolute favorite holiday snacks are the Cranberry Bliss Bars (CBB). My favorite food, ugh that’s a hard one – maybe my Aunt’s Sweet Potato Casserole. Favorite drink, by far, is a peppermint (soy) Mocha 🙂 Thanks for the tips, always good reminders for staying healthy during the calorie happy season!
Pull apart cake on Christmas morning! To die for (literally, if you eat the whole thing, which might be worth it) 😉
Sugar cookies with frosting, peppermint bark, prime rib roast. (I’ve just gained 2 pounds thinking about it)
hands down green bean casserole!
latkes!!!
My mom makes cranberry orange quick bread that it to die for! I love it so much, it’s easy to eat a few too many pieces!
I know it’s weird, but I love homemade chex mix.
Any kind of cookie! 😉
Peppermint hot chocolate!
my favorite holiday food is cookies – any kind really, but particularly anything with pecans.
My favorite holiday drink is white russians made with peppermint kahlua. Yum-o! I use milk instead of cream so I don’t feel so guilty having more than one… or three. 🙂
Christmas dinner – rib roast!
Wine! Always wine 🙂
I love really thin crisp gingerbread cookies!
Sausage balls on Christmas morning and Whitman’s Sampler chocolates. It’s the only time of year I really enjoy indulging in the chocolates, and we have the sausage balls for breakfast as part of my husband’s family tradition.
My mom’s peppermint chocolate chip meringue cookies, so good!
These might taste the same all year long but the red holiday Oreos put me in the Christmas spirit!!
Pepperoni and mozzarella monkey bread! It’s become a tradition to have it on Christmas, and I already brought some to a holiday party last week! Yum!
cookies!
It’s not Christmas until I’ve indulged in a batch or two of my homemade Irish cream 🙂
I love the Nuts & Chews box from See’s Candies!
Egg Nog for the win! shhh dont tell anyone but I pretty much use it for anything that calls for milk all year round.
My mom always makes enchiladas for us for Christmas eve! They are so delicious and I look forward to them every year!
peanut butter bars
Hot buttered rum! Yum!!
Christmas morning cinnamon rolls! Holy Yum!!
I love Christmas cookies! All of them. I try to make an effort to up my mileage in December to make up for my lack of will power when it comes to cookies 😉
Favorite drink: egg nog – the REAL stuff with alcohol
Favorite food: ham!
So basically I like ham & eggs 🙂
Every Christmas morning, my family eats homemade cinnamon rolls that it takes my dad two days to make. We make two varieties (raisins and no raisins), but this year we’re adding a third- gluten free. Earlier in 2013, my brother-in-law was diagnosed with Celiac’s, and he’s always been a big supporter of the cinnamon rolls, so we’re hoping the gluten free version will be a success! If not, we’ll just have to spend 2014 repeating the recipe until we get it right 😉
all the cookies
I love Christmas cookies and M&M’s! (Always a tradition to get M&M’s in our stockings at Christmas!)
Homemade danish pastry, get in ma belly!!!!
hot chocolate! it’s an oldie but a goodie 🙂
homemade molasses ginger cookies!
I love peppermint bark. I look forward to it all year.
I am not ashamed to admit that I love fruitcake. There, I said it. My mom-mom gets me one every year, it’s super booze-heavy and she has to call and order it from a monastery somewhere and it is totally the best thing ever. And nobody else likes it so I get the whole thing to myself.
Peppermint bark! Fo sho!
Danish on Christmas morning from the local bakery is probably tied with pumpkin gooey cake (recipe by Paula Deen–not healthy at all) 😉 Hard to choose just one.
christmas eve tamales are my favorite 🙂
Persimmon cookies! Or cranberry bread. Yum 🙂
ALL the cookies! my grandma makes sugar/peanut butter/oatmeal cookies and they are all so good!
Sugar cookies, monkey bread on Christmas morning, holiday candy galore, MIMOSAS!
We always make monster cookies with holiday M&M’s, anytime is a good time for monster cookies!
I absolutely LOVE homemade Chex Mix during the holidays! I made a double batch last weekend and gave it all away, so I’ll be making a double batch this week and actually enjoy some of it!
Edy’s slow churned peppermint ice cream.
Spiked apple cider!
chocolate covered pretzels!
OMG you want me to pick one?!?! probably gonna go with homemade sugar cookies with icing!! love those. oh and see’s is ah-mazing. Have you tried the cinnamon lollipops? heaven…………
White Cranberry Cosmos and Peanut Butter Kiss cookies are my holiday guilty pleasures!
I love Christmas Morning Strada and Blended Frozen Strawberry “Juice”. Oh, and Great Lakes Christmas Ale.
My fave holiday treats include cinnamon buns on Christmas morning, and eggnog. I used to thing eggnog was gross, but now I’m a huge fan.
Hot Chocolate with whip is my fav!
Favorite holiday food: my mom’s cinnamon raisin sticky buns! They are TO DIE FOR, and only come around once or twice a year. But totally worth the wait! 🙂
Decorated sugar cookies. My mom and I make them together and they are sooo good!
I love the sausage gravy casserole we make on Christmas morning!
I’m a tamale girl too. Homemade of course.
Sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles!
Buckeyes!!
peanut butter cookies w/ kisses! 🙂
Christmas cookies, homemade rolls, and wine!
My favorite holiday drink is Dark Chocolate Almond Milk with a splash of peppermint!
i love gingerbread cookes, especially when i get to decorate them myself
I love sugar cookies and cinnamon chocolate fudge !
peppermint martinis!!
all of the potato dishes! oh badness!
My favorite holiday food is the homemade pizza we make every Christmas Eve at my dad’s!
Favorite holiday drink is spiced apple cider.
Love eggnog with Christmas cookies!
Cookies are the best!
I love all of the Christmas cookies!
Favorite holiday drink: Jamaican sorrel drink. With or without rum.
My favorite drink is egg nog and it is so not good for you but i could drink it all day, every day!
I love Christmas brunch! Delicious egg casseroles with a side of pancakes and ham, yummo!
Super soft sugar cookies with icing. So good!
I love adding Rum Chata to drinks or cookie mix this time of year. Sooooo good.
oh my gosh butter caramels get me every year!
My mom’s homemade fudge. Yummy!
I love my mom’s homemade buns…(think biscuits)
chocolate covered anythingggggg
being from germany we have little christmas markets everywhere that sell “Gluehwein”. it’s a hot spiced wine, a bit like mulled wine and it is soooo good! especially with a little bit of rum 🙂
Pumpkin pie and sugar cookies with icing!
LOVE me some sweets. Any kind and the more chocolate the better 🙂
My favorite holiday food/drink is probably the cup of Bailey’s and coffee I drink on Christmas morning while we open gifts with the family.
Nothing in particular, but while I can live off of veggies and smoothies during the summer, all I want to eat during the holiday season are large bowls of carbs. hahaha
Christmas cookies all the way.
Favorite holiday treat is egg nog (spiked with a little rum, of course)!
I can’t live without good ol’ fashion sour cream sugar cookies! I also discovered white chocolate peppermint kisses this year, and they’re amazing!
anything with peppermint 🙂
Cocktails, definitely the cocktails.
Homemade caramels! Or a homemade pumpkin roll.
my favorite holiday treat is pickled shrimp! my grandmother used to make them and now my dad does- they sound weird but are AMAZING
My favorite holiday drink would have to be a peppermint mocha! And food would be grape leaf rolls my grandma makes.
I love baking and eating cookies during the holidays!
I look forward to peppermint bark each year!
Love gingerbread lattes!
Apple Cider for sure!
Only time of the year I get crab soup. Quite the treat.
Snickerdoodles!
I love Christmas cookies. Especially the really soft sugar cookies. And mimosas on New Year’s Day. 🙂
A Christmas morning poinsettia. Take your favorite sparkling wine, add a little cranberry juice, and a few cranberries. Delish and oh so cute!
I have to pick just one? Haha! We make this thing called Sopapilla Cheesecake, with crescent rolls and cream cheese and butter. It’s divine, and I could eat the whole pan by myself!
There’s something about those Little Debbie Christmas Tree cakes…I know, they sell them in non-Christmas tree shapes all year round, but I only like them when they’re trees. Am I weird?
I love holiday candy. Ha ha. Especially Hershey kisses!
My mom makes a special breakfast crumb cake for Christmas every year — so good!
MMMM…Christmas sugar cookies with frosting of course!
Way hard to pick one, but first thing that comes to mind is Eggnog Latte from Starbucks! It screams holiday to me……… 🙂
I love Christmas morning Mimosas!
I love coffee with eggnog instead of creamer and green bean casserole, yum!
I couldn’t live without homemade m&m Christmas cookies 🙂