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Celebrations

Holidays and special occasions call for celebration, would you agree? We all love traditional gatherings for the obvious holidays, but we also love smaller holidays and love to celebrate each one with a special menu. We love a good 4th of July themed picnic, Valentine's Day treats everyone will love, or "Game-Day" appetizers and entrees made in the Instant Pot.

Consider this your one-stop-shop to every celebratory menu you'll ever need. Looking for a Thanksgiving menu (for 5 special diets)? Or maybe you'd like a "Real-Food Makeover" for your Christmas menu? We've got it!

Category: Celebrations

GAPS Slow Cooker Apple Pie Filling (+ Lauren's GAPS Healing Story!) | Read Lauren's blessed GAPS Diet healing story! Then she shares an easy slow cooker apple pie filling made without sugar or starch. This is one of those easy recipes you need when on a healing diet! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

GAPS Slow Cooker Apple Pie Filling (+ Lauren’s GAPS Diet Healing Story!)

pumpkin pie sitting on white plate

Pumpkin Pie (gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free)

Mediterranean Stuffed Grape Leaves {Dolmas} | Stuffed grape leaves are one of my all-time favorite foods. When we had them growing up, it was a family affair. Whoever was home loved to get in on the rolling. My mom would lead us in making a huge pot of them. We would eat off them for days, if they lasted that long! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Mediterranean Stuffed Grape Leaves {Dolmas}

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Halawa – Halvah

Allergy-Friendly Carrot Cake | Sweetened with apples and dates, this carrot cake (or really, they could be "carrot bars" just as easily) are also allergy-friendly. Dairy-free, egg-free, and gluten-free! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Allergy-Friendly Carrot Cake {dairy-free, egg-free, & gluten-free!}

Pumpkin Muffins

Pumpkin Muffins

Nut Crust for Pumpkin Pie

Nut Crust for Pumpkin Pie

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

Perfectly Moist Turkey, Every Time | Experience has shown me that we end up with fabulously moist turkeys (even heritage birds) by cooking our turkeys exactly the opposite way recommended by 1-800-BUTTERBALL. Here's how you can get a perfectly moist oven-roasted turkey -- every time. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Perfectly Moist Turkey, Every Time

lemon spelt bundt cake on white plate with lemons in background

Spelt Lemon Cake

A cup of frothy homemade eggnog with two eggs sitting next to it.

Basic Eggnog

Fruit and nut Christmas cookies with almonds and raisins close up

Fruit and Nut Christmas Cookies

maple Christmas cookies on a white plate sitting on a butcher block

Maple Cookies

Best Vanilla or Chocolate Ice Cream | Scoopable, creamy, smooth, delicious... the best homemade ice cream ever! You can turn this basic recipe into mint chocolate chip, cookies and cream, or strawberry, just to give you some ideas... [by Wardee Harmon] | GNOWFGLINS.com

Best Ice Cream: Chocolate or Vanilla

Sourdough Pumpkin Bread

Sourdough Pumpkin Bread

The Tastes of Thanksgiving: Cheese and Soaked Crackers Tray

The Tastes of Thanksgiving: Cheese and Soaked Crackers Tray

6 Stunning and Nourishing Cranberry Sauces

6 Stunning and Nourishing Cranberry Sauces

Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse Pie... and more!

Pumpkin Cheesecake Mousse Pie… and more!

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Hi and Welcome!

I’m Wardee Harmon and I help Christian families who know they should eat healthy but are tired of complicated, time-consuming, weird-tasting, and unsustainable “healthy” diets…

…who want to look and feel better, save time and money, and have more energy for enjoying family life and serving Him fully!… like I was. Click here for more…

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…are what we eat! God’s Natural, Organic, Whole Foods, Grown Locally, In Season.

We love working with other Christian families who love good food and want to eat according to God’s design…

Not only because we believe it’s the healthiest way, but because we want to give Him glory for creating good food as the best medicine!

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Our Eat God’s Way cooking program is for Christian families who want to balance blood sugar and hormones, get off or reduce medications, fix digestion and allergies, get their energy back, and more…

…without giving up their favorite foods, having to choke down “healthy” fad diet foods, or blow up the food budget.

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