I have told several of you about stuffing the punkin with wild rice dressing and you asked for the recipe. When I asked Marilyn if she’d write it up to share she replied with – “there is no recipe”. She just takes a scoop of this and a dash of that and makes it up as she goes. I deeply appreciate her efforts to approximate what she does in writing to share with you.

Here is the Wild Rice Dressing
for the Stuffed Pumpkin

You can enjoy special Holiday food and lose weight. In fact, many people choose the Holidays as the time to start their weight loss with Slender For Life™. You don’t have gain weight over the Holidays. If you want to know how to lose weight during the Holidays, give me a call or send me an email.

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Thanksgiving and the holidays do not have to be a time of weight gain. In fact, most Slender For Life™ clients continue to lose weight right through the holidays. Tribal feasts like Thanksgiving are perfect meals for eating healthy. You can celebrate the bountiful harvest with squash, yams, green beans, potatoes (I love the little blue potatoes), salad and …… I am getting hungry just thinking about it! You can make all of these vegetables fat free and they are delicious! Here is the recipe for Stuffed Pumpkin:

Stuffed Pumpkin

Stuffed Pumpkin is a center piece of Roger and Marilyn Moore’s Thanksgiving Dinner

Sauce

1 cup apricot nectar
½ teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground coriander
Stir together and set aside. Heat and pour over pumpkin and dressing when serving.

Stuffing

1 cup sliced mushrooms
2 cloves garlic, pressed
1 onion, chopped
1 ½ cups chopped celery
2 small apples, peeled & diced
1 cup apricot nectar
1 cup cooked white beans
2 tablespoons chopped fresh
parsley
1 tablespoon soy sauce
½ teaspoon Italian seasonings
½ teaspoon dried sage
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 to 3 cups whole wheat bread cubes

To prepare stuffing: Sauté the mushrooms, onion, celery and apple in the apricot nectar for 10 minutes. Add the beans and all of the seasonings and simmer for a few minutes to allow the flavors to blend. Stir in the bread cubes.

You can add other vegetables that you like in the dressing; I have put in green peppers and zucchini.

I also have substituted 2 cups of wild rice, and used half of the bread crumbs.

Pumpkin

1 medium pumpkin

Cut off the top of the pumpkin and save for a cover. Clean out seeds and string portion Place bread stuffing inside, cover with top of pumpkin. Place in a large roasting pan with 1 inch of water covering the bottom of pan. Bake at 350º for 1 ½ hours or until pumpkin can be pierced with a fork.

NOTE:

You may also use any of the following: Two medium acorn squash cut in half, butternut squash, cut in half, or banana or Hubbard squash. Instead of bread stuffing, you can use wild rice.

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The Stuffed Pumpkin looks beautiful when it comes out of the oven a golden brown. I’ve learned that we need to make 2 of them. One that gets served at Thanksgiving dinner and another one that gets set aside as left overs. When we made the mistake of only making one, it was all gone by the time everybody left. IT IS THAT GOOD!

Slender For Life™ clients learn hypnosis for weight loss so that they can easily go through the holidays and continue to lose weight. The holidays are a perfect time to start a weight loss program. Most Americans are going to gain weight between now and January 3. Why not do the holidays differently this year?

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Lose Weight Seattle With Holiday Meal Planning From Mary McDougall

Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss clients of Slender For Life™ are already talking about the holidays so the October McDougall Newsletter featuring Holiday Meal Planning by Mary McDougall is very timely. Believe it or not, Thanksgiving and Christmas can be the healthiest meals of the year. Mary McDougall has some great ideas for holiday meal planning. You may recall that I am an avid fan of the stuffed pumpkin for Thanksgiving Dinner. Not only does it look beautiful, it tastes really good. In fact it tastes so good that we have to make two so that I have left overs. There is never any left when our Thanksgiving guests leave – it really is that good!

Holiday Meal Planning

By Mary McDougall

This time of year, the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays frighten many people who eat a healthy diet. They wonder how to socialize with friends and how to prepare a meal in their home. These two days are supposed to be the largest feasts of the year. Yet in fact, both dinners are the healthiest, most vegetarian-like, most McDougall-like meals people eat all year long. Traditionally, these holiday dinners consist of mashed white potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, a bread stuffing, butternut and acorn squash, cranberries, and a variety of green vegetables, including Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, and green beans. For dessert, pumpkin pie ends the feast. That’s a cornucopia of starches and vegetables. The turkey served is the leanest of all common meats. The truth is that every other dinner consumed by Westerners all year long is far richer in fat, cholesterol, salt and sugar than is eaten at these two traditional festivals. Therefore, if you are a healthy eater you will find Thanksgiving and Christmas the two most comfortable times of the year to socialize with all of your family and friends. I have laid out the menu, shopping list, and time schedule so that you will be able to more easily prepare a successful meal.

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Slender For Life™ clients know that food should taste great and should be savored. Food should be sensual, pleasurable and enjoyable. Just make sure that it is real food and to stop eating when your appetite says “enough – no more!” Happy Holidays!

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International Vegetarian Union (IVU)

Recipes Around the World. 3,099 vegan recipes – so far – in English – lots more in other languages.

Here are other excellent recipe resources recommended by Slender For Life™

Dr. McDougall’s Health & Medical Center

Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine

Fat Free Vegan Recipes

Fat Free Vegetarian Recipes

VegSource

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And finally, you really do have
to try Stuffed Pumpkin

I know that plant-based foods can be easy, inexpensive and can taste really, really great. It is so exciting to find new delicious and healthy ways to make meals and snacks. Seattle weight loss and Bainbridge Island weight loss clients of Slender For Life™ are achieving long-term results using hypnosis for weight loss. You can too.

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I am so excited about Jeff Novick’s Fast Food DVD that I decided to feature it today rather than a product from the Hypnosis Health Info Store. And, since it isn’t a product in the Hypnosis Health Info Store, I do not make any money from its sales. That is how important I think this video is. In the Bainbridge Island weight loss and Seattle weight loss offices of Slender For Life™ clients often think that eating healthy takes too much time and costs too much. NOT TRUE! With Jeff Novick’s Fast Food DVD and books like John McDougall’s Quick & Easy Cookbook, you can quickly and easily make great tasting affordable meals. And my book, Becoming Slender For Life and my weight loss hypnosis CD set can support you in giving up the fat food for healthy plant-based fast food.

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Of course, these websites are perfect compliments to my book, Becoming Slender For Life.

If you know of any other excellent resources for healthy eating, please let me know with your comments to this post.

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