HEALTHY HOLIDAYS: Keeping Spirits Up During The Holidays with Fun and Nutritious Foods

This year the Holidays will be like no other.  We have the unprecedented challenge of keeping our residents’ spirits up while maintaining our ongoing efforts to provide for their unique nutritional needs in this era of COVID. The Bell Institute invited me to create a webinar that addresses this challenge.

Listen in on this webcast presented by The Bell Institute.

Healthy Holidays:  Keeping Spirits Up During the Holidays with Fun and Nutritious Foods

1.      Understand how holiday foods are an opportunity for high impact nutrition and socialization especially now in the COVID era.

2.      Learn how gut health affects immunity and overall wellness and get examples of holiday recipes that are festive and promote gut health.

3.      Gain specific strategies for high calorie/high protein holiday foods that support efforts to reduce unintentional weight loss.

4.      Identify ways to keep the holidays festive while improving the quality and safety of foods for those with chewing and swallowing problems.

5.      Learn how to make between meal snacks an opportunity for holiday fun while still offering nutrition targeted to the older adult.

Here are some spirit lifting holiday recipes developed by the talented General Mills chefs that follow some of the nutritional interventions outlined in the webinar.