| Does "Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes" sound like an | | | | celebrated on the first Sunday in October and is called |
| oxymoron? When you think of all that turkey stuffing, | | | | "Erntedankfest" (meaning harvest festival of thanks). |
| the cream-based sauces, the buttered mashed | | | | While turkey and all the trimmings are considered by |
| potatoes, and the pumpkin and pecan pies, "healthy" | | | | many to be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, some |
| isn't one of the adjectives used to describe the | | | | people use ham because they like it better. Using that |
| Thanksgiving Day meal. As good as all the above | | | | same thinking, we adopted our own customs. We |
| sound, it's so easy to create a traditional healthy | | | | chose to celebrate with rouladen, red cabbage, and |
| Thanksgiving Day meal for your family. Tradition is | | | | potato dumplings. Dessert was usually whichever torte |
| something you start. It doesn't have to match every | | | | was the family favorite at the time. Yes, it really was |
| one else. It's yours alone. | | | | rouladen - not the easy and cheaper version of Beef |
| Our German Thanksgiving Day celebrated in Canada | | | | Flatladen. It was extra work, but this was for a very |
| starts as a day of thanksgiving for all the blessings | | | | special day. |
| we've received. This is pretty much the same for | | | | For our family, it was an extra special day. Our middle |
| everyone - based on the original story of the first | | | | son's birthday was October 12, and we often |
| Thanksgiving celebrated by the English settlers in | | | | celebrated both at the same time. Our tradition was |
| America after the harsh winter in Plymouth, | | | | that the "birthday child" could choose his dinner. And |
| Massachusetts. Celebrated in the States on the fourth | | | | what did Michael always choose? You guessed it, |
| Thursday in November, it is celebrated in Canada on | | | | "rouladen, red cabbage, and potato dumplings." And |
| the second Sunday of October. In Germany, it is often | | | | that's how traditions start! |