Thanksgiving with Jenny Craig
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate and give thanks with your family and friends. It is also a time that may present challenges to your weight loss goals. Unlike the simple traditional dinner shared almost 400 years ago, today's Thanksgiving meal is anything but simple, rarely sensible, and for some, just the start of a whole season of excess.
Check out our video guide to surviving this most tempting of holiday seasons. It includes a Thanksgiving menu makeover, activity tips, motivational strategies, and special guest Valerie Bertinelli!
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The Jenny Craig Approach
Jenny Craig is more than just a diet – it's about creating a healthy relationship with food, building an active lifestyle, and developing the balanced approach that keeps you motivated to maintain your healthy behaviors. It's the model that has helped hundreds of thousands of Jenny Craig clients reach and maintain their weight loss goals. The resources on this page are just a sample, our gift to you this holiday season. For full access to recipes, strategies and more, sign up today for Jenny Craig eTools. Registration is easy, and free!
Thanksgiving Recipes
The following recipes are designed to serve four people. If you would like to prepare each recipe for one person, simply divide the recipe by four to make an individual serving. If you would like to serve a party of eight people, you can double each recipe.
Roasted Yams
2 (2.5 oz each) small yams
Butter-flavored nonstick spray
1 packet Jenny's Cuisine® Lite Table Syrup
Dash of cloves
Clean yams and cut into halves. Bake yams, cut sides up, in a roasting pan coated with cooking spray for 30 minutes at 375ºF. Remove yams from oven and cut into quarters. Spray yam quarters with butter-flavored nonstick spray and brush with one packet of Jenny's Cuisine® Light Table Syrup. Return yams to the oven and bake at 500ºF for 7 minutes or until golden brown. Remove yams from the oven and sprinkle with cloves. Yield: 4 servings.
Per Serving: 89 calories, 1 starch
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Spinach Salad with Caramelized Pears and Toasted Pecans
4 cups baby spinach
Nonstick vegetable spray
2 red Bartlett pears, sliced
8 pecan halves, chopped
4 Tbls Rice Wine Vinegar Dressing
Place spinach on serving plate. Spray sauté pan with nonstick vegetable spray and cook/caramelize pears on medium high for 2 minutes until tender and golden brown and set aside. Spray sauté pan with nonstick vegetable spray and toast chopped pecans for 90 seconds until browned. Place caramelized pears on spinach, sprinkle with toasted pecans and top with dressing. Yield: 4 servings.
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Rice Wine Vinegar Dressing
3 Tbls rice wine vinegar
1 Tbl oil
1 tsp honey
If you include this recipe in your Thanksgiving meal, please be sure to adjust your daily menu to account for the extra servings of fat and fruit.
Per Serving with Rice Wine Vinegar Dressing (1 Tbl): 84 calories, 1 fat, 1 vegetable, 1/2 fruit
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Volumetrics®
Volumetrics® is an eating approach based on the research of Barbara Rolls, PhD. Volumetrics® allows you to incorporate more foods, such as low-calorie fruits, vegetables, high-fiber starches and lean protein so that you feel full and more satisfied while eating fewer calories. Volumetrics® provides a practical way to enjoy nutritious and satisfying foods for weight management. The recipes above can be used to help you add Volumetrics® to your Thanksgiving meal.
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Rolls BJ. The Volumetrics Eating Plan. New York, NY: Harper; 2007.
Rolls BJ, Barnett RA. The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan. New York, NY: Quill; 2000.
