A Healthy Wholefood Christmas!
A wholefood Christmas really doesn’t have to involve loads of time slaving over a hot stove. Who wants to do that in 40 degree weather anyway???
My advice is to keep it simple.
Choose a protein dish, hot or cold, add in a few salads or side dishes and a delicious fresh fruit platter. You can cook and freeze Christmas baking in advance and defrost the night before. Starters can be as simple as a wheel of brie scattered with cherries. Make use of relatives and guests by emailing them the recipe of what they can bring.
Serve up some my Pomegranate, Mint and Lime Fizz and some organic wine and beer (less headaches) and lots of fruity water.
Most of all, relax and enjoy this precious time with family and friends. It doesn’t matter if it’s not all perfect.
Anyway, let’s get into the food, shall we?
Recipes
I have been stalking all my favourite whole food blogs in the last few weeks, trying to rustle up a Christmas menu for us. So, I thought I would share with you some of the amazing recipes with you.
Some I have made before, some are new, but they all have a whole, real food style. I hope you enjoy this bumper list of festive foods.
Please add any links you have for more food in the comments and when you make something, use the hashtag #WholeFoodChristmas so we can all get inspired. ♥
Getting Started
Pear, Brie and Proscuitto Forks
Cucumber Rounds with Salmon and Herbed Broadbean Dip
Half Shell Scallops with Garlic and Herbs
Cashew and Macadamia Cheese Log
Fresh Prawns with Two Dipping Sauces
Sweet Potato Bites with Guacamole and Bacon
The Main Event
GF Sweet Nutty Stuffed Pork (pictured)
Roasted Savoury Spiced Chicken
Buttermilk and Herb Crispy Chicken
Crispy Skin Roast Pork Belly in the Thermomix
Jamie Oliver’s Pork Belly Roast
Slow Cooked Lamb Shoulder with Red Wine Sauce
Roasted Shoulder of Lamb with Garlic and Rosemary
Smoked Salmon and Swiss Cheese Tart
Baked Salmon with Coconut and Ginger Crust
Tomato, Asparagus and Brie Tart
Quinoa Stuffing with Fresh Herbs and Pistachio Nuts
On the Side
Salads
Quinoa and Pomegranate Salad (pictured)
Red Cabbage, Apple and Fennel Salad
Pomegranate and Maple Spiced Walnut Salad
Strawberry and Avocado Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
Watermelon and Cucumber Salad with Coconut and Lime Dressing
Pumpkin Pear and Pinenut Salad
Cumin Spiced Carrot Herb Salad
Tropical Mango and Rocket Salad
Green Salad with Persian Fetta and Lemon
Roasted Beetroot Salad with Fig and Smashed Raspberry Dressing
Beetroot, Apple and Mint Salad
Lemon Roasted Asparagus with Green Beans and Smoked Paprika Dressing
Pumpkin and Pistachio Couscous
Vegetables
Quinoa, Pesto and Caramelized Onion
Cauliflower Fried Rice with Tumeric, Ginger and Almonds
Roasted Baby Carrot with Pistachio and Hummus
Spiced Potato Wedges with Oregano, Paprika and Chilli
Something Sweet
Fun Food and Gifts
Fun and Healthy Christmas Food for Kids
Sweets
Paleo White Christmas Rocky Road
Healthy White Chocolate Truffles
Chocolate Crackle Christmas Trees
Desserts
Chocolate Cherry Tart (gluten free, dairy free)
Sticky Pecan and Hazelnut Tart
Torte Caprese with Berry Nougat
Strawberry and Marscapone Tartlets
Bitter Chocolate Cheesecake with Goji and Coconut
Cakes, Puddings and Pies
Cakes
Pecan Cinnamon Spiced Fruit Cake
Supercharged Christmas Fruit Cake
Puddings
Paleo Christmas Pudding with Custard
Gluten Free No Bake Christmas Pudding
Biscuits
Gingerbread House with Marshmallow Snow
Gluten Free Gingerbread Men (pictured)
Gluten Free Spiced Orange Choc Chunk Biscuits
Cardamom, Rosewater and Pistachio Shortbread
Mince Pies
Grain Free Rhubarb Mince Tarts
Fermented Fruit Mince Pies with GF Pastry
Merry Christmas!
WOW what an awesome list of recipes!
I would love to win the biscuit bundle!
OOooo decisions decisions – biscuit or cake mmmmmmmmmmmbiscuit – would to win biscuit bundle please
So many fantastic recipes to try!
Have to give the cake a miss because dates are not fodmap friendly but would be excited to win the BISCUIT BUNDLE :))
I would love to try Tania’s biscuit bundle please! I love her cookbook!
How lovely. Biscuit bundle would be lovely. Thank you for the chance
I would so love to win Tania’s Christmas cake bundle
Love to win the Biscuit Bundle please.:)
Wow what an awesome list of recipes – am planning on doing some prepping and freezing this weekend in preparation for Christmas! I would love to win the biscuit bundle. Thanks!
Biscuit or cake?? Cake or biscuit? such a difficult decision, on the one hand it is nice to dunk a biscuit in my tea, but cake mmmmm yummy……..yes I think that Cake rules for me
The Biscuits sound too yummy to go past!
So much yummy food!! I would choose Tania’s cake bundle, looks delish! Thanks.
I would love the biscuits.
So many delicious recipes!
I would love to win the cake bundle please. x
I would love the cake bundle, please! 🙂
Biscuits please – gingerbread for The German 🙂
I would love to win the Biscuit Bundle please 🙂
Starting my family on healthier eating these Christmas holidays & so glad I found your site to help make Christmas cooking easier. My kiddies would love to win the biscuit pack. Thank you 🙂
Awesome, thanks for this! Will be able to choose something to take along to Christmas lunch with the family.
I would LOVE the biscuit bundle! 🙂
What a great prize! I would be thrilled with either pack but must admit that the sound of the cake is making my mouth water 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win
Wow,what a lot of work you’ve gone to, to help us all have a natural, nasty free Christmas, thankyou 🙂 ! I would love to win Tania’s biscuit bundle please 🙂 I have just run out of her bread and cake mixes 😉
Great list of recipes thanks.Would love either but the Christmas Cake sounds awesome, thankyou 😉
Everything looks amazing. The Biscuit Bundle thank you.
OMG that is a HUGE list of yummy whole food recipes!!! I’m exhausted just looking at it (and hungry!) 🙂
I would choooosssseee the…..cake! I love me a biscuit, but that cake sounds like something extra special.
Cake mix please, sounds delicious.
All soooo yummy. Lots of great ideas. Would love the cake
Biscuit Bundle would be lovely. Thanks 🙂
I would love to try the cake bundle, thanks 🙂
I’d love to win the bickies bundle!
Would love to win the Biscuit Bundle please! Perfect for the cookie jar!
Cake bundle please
Biscuits please. Thanks for kick starting my christmas food planning 🙂
We are cake people so winning the cake bundle would be fantastic..
Oooh, all of her packs sound delicious, but I find it hard to go past a good Christmas cake, especially with dates, so Id love her cake bundle please.
Would love to try the cake bundle 🙂
As per usual the resources you provide us with are excellent! Thanks for all the great recipe links. I would LOVE to win the cake bundle! Thanks for the opportunity.
thank you! no more searching for good recipes .. they are all right here!!!
I would love to win the Cake Bundle please.
that way I can still make the usual Christmas cakes like I do for everyone else (I make them as gifts) .. but can enjoy one myself (I’m gluten free)
Love all these idea Sonia xx
I’d love to win the cake pack
I can’t believe someone is offering something egg and nut free at Christmas – unheard of!!!! The biscuit bundle would be perfect thanks. x
My son would love to try Tania’s gingerbread biscuits. My son is just starting out on a gf and dairy free diet so that would be awesome.
I have come across your page via Well Nourished. A big thanks to Georgia! Your fizzy drink recipes are great! We have a soda stream and our three kids love new flavours to concoct! I would absolutely love the cake bundle. The kids can have the fizzy drink recipes, this one’s for me!
Thanks for the hard work getting the food links together. You have saved me heaps of time. I would love the cake please.
have just been pinning these recipes like crazy!! I’d love to win the cake pack.
I would love the biscuit bundle please 🙂
Thank you for such an amazing list of recipes!! I’m sure to find something in there for Christmas Day!!
Biscuit or cake? Can I just say either? They both look amazeballs!!
Love a good ginger biscuit – the biscuit bundle please.
I would love the biscuit bundle! 🙂
The Christmas Cake bundle please.
christmas cake bundle please 🙂
What a delicious list of recipes! Menu planning as I go. The biscuit bundle sounds amazing!
Wow, love Tania’s stuff and would love to win the Biscuit bundle!
Great list of whole food recipes, thanks! This is going to save me (and others) so much time!
My family prefers ham over turkey – can you recommend anyone before I start asking Dr. Google?
(And biscuits, please!)
Hey Anita
It depends on where you live! You can ask in our FAcebook chat group for somewhere that does free range ham without the nasties if you like. Here is link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/NaturalNewAgeMumsGroup/
Christmas Cake bundle pls lookds great!!
What a hard choice! I think I’d like the cake bundle. Love the idea of a healthier Christmas! My daughter is on wheat & dairy free so these sound fantastic!
Christmas Cake bundle please – i really love and miss my Christmas cake since gong gluten free.
Would love the biscuit bundle. thank you 🙂
Biscuits pack would be amazing 🙂
Wow! I just want to sit her and go through each one right now and add to my recipe book but alas, one must get some sleep, so I to go bed and dream of the both the cake and biscuit mixes and then wake up before the kids stir and go through those recipes! Yay!
the Christmas Cake Bundle please
I would love the biscuit pack please.
Christmas Cake bundle can’t go wrong with cake!
Yum Yum Yum Yum yum Yum Yum! I’d love to wine the Christmas pud bundle!
Ha ha. Wine.
I would love the biscuit pack please.
Cake please:-)
The cakes sound delicious. Yum yum.
Thank you for this fabulous list of recipes!
I’d love to win the cake pack please
Would love love love the cake bundle!!
Yummy just got to buy the Xmas cake and would love the rest too.
I have ordered a xmas pack already for my neighbours 🙂 i would love a cake mix for myself
I would really love to try the biscut bundle.
Both sound absolutly devine! The Biscuits pack stands out that little bit more for me:)
Cake mix if egg fre a swell. Thanks 🙂
Otherwise biscuit mix. Thanks
Awesome list of recipes! I would love to win the Christmas cake bundle.
I would LOVE the Christmas cake pack please
Simple indeed!I’m a gingerbread fan!
So many beautiful recipes! Cake please
I would love the Christmas Cake Bundle, never have cooked a christmas cake in my life (due to lack of confidence) so this sounds like the ideal pack for me. I would be so happy to cook a christmas cake for the first time:)
The biscuit bundle sounds awesome!
Cake for me, but can I just say thank you, every year I thrall thru cook books looking for different ideas for starters/ desserts etc. I always do the same traditional main..and that’s ok.
thank you for saving me so much time. your ideas/recipes have me sorted.
biscuit bundle please 🙂
I would love the biscuits, can get the kids to help , thankyou very much!
Biscuits please, to excite & delight my own personal inner Cookie Monster 🙂
Biscuits please. They are so far the only thing I can’t make and wanting to find a recipe book to conquer my nemesis. LoL
Cake bundle would be lovely thanks
oh how exciting!
I’d love the biscuits 🙂
I would love the Christmas cake bundle
please 🙂
Biscuit bundle sounds lovely
Biscuit bundle please.
Thanks for entering everyone! the lucky winners are Sara and Joanna. 🙂
What a wonderful christmas surprise this would be to win. Biscuits yummm
Hi the chocolate crackle christmas tree link is sending me to the changing habits christmas cake…
thanks for letting me know Sharee – all fixed 🙂
Awesome thanks
Ooh I am a glutton for a good slice of cake and that sounds divine! Thanks for the chance 🙂