Eat, Drink & Be Merry Over the Holidays – Guilt and Stress Free: Teleclass Re-cap

iStock_healthyholidayfood ‘Tis the season for crowded stores, present wrapping, guests, and a whole lot of stress.

This week, we held an important and enlightening teleclass, expertly facilitated by Mareya Ibrahim, The Fit Foodie and Founder of EatCleaner.com, and generously sponsored by Happy Family, to discover how you can enjoy this Holiday season stress-free!

When it comes to healthy holiday entertaining, Mareya Ibrahim, The Fit Foodie, has got some great solutions to get the entire family involved and reduce stress levels. Her healthy holiday hacks, tips and tricks ensure you don’t just SURVIVE the Holiday Season, but also THRIVE! During this session, Mareya discussed topics such as:

  • The 5 Top Habits of the holiday health-minded
  • Planning ahead to avoid food emergencies
  • Favorite ’swaps’ to rehab not-so-healthy family favorites
  • How to get kids into holiday traditions without getting under your feet
  • Some favorite clean eating cocktails and recipes
  • Getting ready for a new year of clean eating

In case you missed it and need some great suggestions as we enter the holiday season, you can listen to the recorded teleclass HERE.

Here are some amazing recipes and resources that Chef Mareya and Happy
Family want to share with you – for the holidays and all year:

Clean Eating Holiday Favorites

Picky Eating 101 (courtesy of Happy Family)

Chocolatey Recipes that Chef Mareya referenced during the class

Gluten free, Dairy free dark chocolate-chip cupcakes

Chocolate cake

Some of Chef Mareya’s ‘Fit Foodie’ K.I.S.S. (Keep It Super Simple) Recipes

Grilled lemon garlic rosemary chicken

Polenta veggie bake

Smart holiday swaps

10 is the new 30 – Fit Food Fast

Top 10 lunchbox ideas

3 Course Grilled Meal – Cedar plank blackberry salmon, green bean coconut milk hot pot and grilled peach cobbler

Sunday night roast chicken

Additional Resources

If you live in the NYC area, here is a link to the NYC Kids Food Festival that Chef Mareya is a part of.

SIGN UP for Chef Mareya’s Cleaner Plate Club newsletter for ongoing tips and resources, as well as amazing products.

Check out Chef Mareya’s The Clean Eating Handbook: 31 Essential Rules to Health, Wellness, and a Fabulously Fit Life.

Sponsored by

Launched on Mother’s Day 2006, Happy Family is one of the first organic brands to offer a complete line of nutritious foods for babies’, toddlers’, and kids’ growing bodies. Constantly innovating, Happy Family has been a pioneer in the industry, adding probiotics and extra nutrition to many of its products—like Salba®, the super chia, as well as plant-based DHA and choline for brain growth and eye health.  Happy Family believes that every baby deserves to be a happy baby. Since its launch, the company has underwritten more than 1 million meals through Project Peanut Butter, a nonprofit that helps to feed starving children in Africa.

Chef Mareya Ibrahim is also known as “The Fit Foodie,” a nationally recognized food safety and clean eating expert, an award-winning entrepreneur, television chef, author and inventor. She is the creator of EatCleaner.com, the premier lifestyle destination for fit food information. Her book “The Clean Eating Handbook” was released in May 2013 and is being touted as the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone looking to eat cleaner and get leaner. She is a featured chef on the Emmy-nominated cooking show Recipe Rehab, eHow.com, Livestrong.com and is the local food expert for San Diego Channel 6 News. Her back-page column, “The Fit Foodie”, appears in Edible Orange County Magazine.

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