Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes - Budget Meal Planning for November

Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey and Turkey Leftovers

The festive season brings with it both joys and stresses. And the place where the tensions are often most evident is in the kitchen! If you want to avoid being harassed over the holidays, a modicum of thinking ahead can avert potentially fraught situations. Planning your healthy Thanksgiving recipes is the first step. You've got the recipe for cooking Thanksgiving turkey But what to do with the turkey leftovers? Turkey a la King is a great way of producing an entirely new meal with the previous day's turkey. Turkey Burgers with Coriander, Soy and Pickled Ginger also ring the changes and give a slightly fusion twist to a traditional recipe.


Ground Beef Casserole Recipes and Simple Chicken Recipes

However, November is not ALL about Thanksgiving! We all have three weeks of meals to produce before then. This needn't be a chore if you plan wisely. The trick is to try and get another meal out of a main meal. For example: Shepherd's Pie Recipe on one night will easily make a reappearance as a glamorous Meat Pie Recipe, complete with light puff pastry. Oven Baked Whole Chicken as a main meal could become a delicious Chicken Pasta Bake with Pesto Sauce and Parmesan Crust. Your Best Grilled Salmon Recipe could then double as Fresh Salmon Croquettes. So, you can see, that with a little monthly meal planning, putting nutritious daily meals on the table needn't be too onerous.

Fresh Pumpkin Recipes

Autumn Meal Planning wouldn't be complete without an offering of Pumpkin Recipes. Of all pumpkins, Butternut Squash is my favorite for its intense, nutty flavor. Using vegetables that are bountiful at this time of year makes sense if you are trying to cook economically. So, what better than a Butternut Squash Soup Recipe with a Pumpkin Muffin? Butternut Squash Recipe with Coconut Milk and Cashew Nuts makes an ideal Thanksgiving side dish recipe and for a vegetarian optional main course, you could try Vegetarian Moussaka with Butternut Squash and Aubergines. Simply delicious.

Thanksgiving Dessert Recipes

Budget Meal Planning is not all around sensible main meals! What would Thanksgiving be without the best Pecan Pie recipe? Or you could try an easy Fresh Pumpkin Pie Recipe which is light and nutritious.

Thanksgiving Cookie Recipes

Homemade cookie recipes come into their own over Thanksgiving. There is nothing like making a batch of cookies as a gift - they are a symbol of your time and thought. Snickers Cookies are fun to make with the family and Greek Cookies not only look beautiful, they taste fabulous.

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Fiona Lesley has had over 20 years of experience cooking delicious meals for family and friends alike. A teacher by profession, she brings together her years of time and money-saving tips at Monthly Meal Planning