Prepare Your (Healthy) Holiday Meal From Our Favorite Cookbooks

 

 

 

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It's hard not to derail your healthy eating habit during the holidays. The cookies, the drinks, the hearty and delicious food. Just thinking about it makes us drool. Showing up to our family dinners can wreak havoc on the fitness we've been building up. Sometimes family members don't understand our particular needs and don't adjust accordingly. 

We're here to help.

Our store have an assortment of cookbooks to help you get through the holidays without causing you to feel guilty along the way. Whether you're the one prepping the full meal or just bringing a part of it, here are some of our favorite suggestions from the following cookbooks, all which can be found at our stores:

• Run Fast, Eat Slow by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky
  • Buy here
• Run Fast, Cook Fast, Eat Slow by Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky
  • Buy here
• Feed Zone Table by Allen Lim, founder of Skratch Labs and Biju Thomas
  • Available in-store at Fleet Feet Chicago stores

Here's one of our favorite recipes:

Baked Fish With Green Beans and Tomatoes

We all know we should be eating more fish for a healthy hit of nutrients from omega-3 fatty acids to vitamic D, but it can be hard to branch out from chicken and beef. We hope this refreshing one-dish meal will inspire you to explore the sea this holiday season.

Here are some of our other favorites from the three cookbooks tried and tested by some of our Fleet Feet Chicago staff:

Full recipes can be found in your purchased book.

Appetizers

• Classic Hummus (Feed Zone Tables)
• Italian Rice Balls with Red Pepper Oil & Lemon Pesto (Feed Zone Table)
• Crostinie with Chevre, Figs and Thyme (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Millet Pizza Pies (Run Fast Eat Slow)

Soup or Salad

• Grilled Romaine with Pancetta, Hard-Boiled Eggs, & Dijon Dressing (Feed Zone Table)
• Kale-Raddiccho Salad with Farro (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Root Lovers' Winter Salad (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Broccoli Chevre Soup (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• DIY Grain Salad (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)
• Kale & Edamame Orange Miso Salad (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)
• Chicken Cannellini Soup (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)

Main Course

• Grilled T-Bones with Blue Cheese Dressing & Radicchio Slaw (Feed Zone Table)
• Ginger Barbecue Salmon (Feed Zone Table)
• Whole Roasted Chicken with Herbs (Run Fast Eat Slow)

Sides

• Baked Ziti with Toased Chickpeas & Squash (Feed Zone Table)
• Charred Cauliflower (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Mashed Yams with Sage Brown Butter (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Sweet Potato Chickpea Cakes (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)
• Miso Fast Greens (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)

Desserts

• Baklava (Feed Zone Table)
• Pecan Butter Chocolate Truffles with Sea Salt (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Fig Jam Cookies (Run Fast Eat Slow)
• Ginger Molasses Cookies (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)
• Choclate Matcha Energy Balls (Run Fast Cook Fast Eat Slow)