December Things: Healthy Holiday Recipes! (2024)

Instagram Exclusive Recipe

This month’s Instagram exclusive recipe is my Holiday Chocolate Date Bark! It’s so easy to make and the perfect little sweet treat. I love keeping it in my freezer!

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Healthy Holiday Recipes

1. Soft Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

2. Gingerbread Loaf Recipe

3. Vegan Loaded Mashed Potato Bowls

4. Honey Pear Ginger Cheesecake

5. Apple Blackberry Crumble Fruit Bake

6. Vegan Pecan Pie

6. Oat Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gift Ideas for 2023

Do you guys like gift guides? I’ve wondered if I should create one as a separate (more detailed/links) guide. Let me know in the comments below or over on Instagram! For now, here are a few fun ideas:

The Best Cookbooks

I love cookbooks. There’s something about having a physical, beautifully styled book in hand that makes cooking so much more fun! Whether you’re looking for a new cookbook as a gift for a friend, family member, or even yourself, you can’t go wrong with these cookbooks.

Life-Changing Kitchen Gadgets

Toaster Oven + Air Fryer – Two in one! How amazing is that? Love this oven for quickly heating up small amounts of food.

Salad Chopper Bowl – This one’s a game changer!

Nespresso – Forever my favorite coffee/espresso/latte maker.

Instant Pot Pro Crisp Pressure Cooker + Air Fryer – I have this one and am SO OBSESSED. It’s so nice to have both a pressure cooker and air fryer in one gadget. Highly recommend!

Entertaining & Gatherings

My favorite thing this time of year? Having friends and family over and gathering around a meal! To celebrate the season, I’ve rounded up my favorite festive winter gathering gifts and kitchen items.

Life Lately

There’s so much going on this month! Like so many of you, this month is full of fun holiday activities, school things, parties, and lots and lots of food. I always tend to get overwhelmed this time of year, but I also LOVE the business and how fun it is!

Behind-the-scenes things going on this month:

• The kids both have Christmas programs, and I’m SO pumped, haha. They’ve been practicing and it truly melts my heart. Atlas, my oldest, truly comes to life on stage and I’m excited for him to have this experience.
• If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you may have seen that I shared in my stories that Nova (our 6 month old) had an allergic reaction to dairy. We’re now waiting to reintroduce it in a few months, but yesterday we tried peanuts and she did great! Since our middle kiddo has food allergies, we’re really wanting to introduce them and do our best to avoid any that we can by introducing early.
• Along those lines, so many of you amazing mamas have reached out with your own stories about food allergies and have been so encouraging! I’m so grateful for this community.
• I have so many fun and delicious recipes planned for the month of December, but I’m already looking ahead to January as that’s one of our biggest months here on Jar Of Lemons. Which leads me to my big news….

Something’s Coming Soon…