Holiday meals can be wonderfully healthy, brimming with vital nutrients to keep us feeling our best. The following menus have been created to make sumptuous raw food feasts! Use as they're presented, mix and match recipes, or combine them with your own specialties for a totally new and exciting menu.

One of the great things about raw food recipes is that a salad can be reduced to make a side dish, or an appetizer can be expanded into a salad. If you need to keep the salad simple, serve up a big bowl of mixed fresh greens with your favorite dressing. Other ideas might be to make two entrees and skip the soup or appetizer. These menus are just a portion of what's available in the archive, so there are many more choices.

	Sesame Carrots with Curry Dipping Sauce	Borscht Soup	Patties Nouveau with Tamarind Miso Dressing	Celery, Apple, Avocado Cashew Side Salad	Persimmon Pie
	Ginger Beets and Dilled Cucumber	Miso Soup	Quinoa with Almond Lime Sauce	Veggie Ribbons with Cilantro Pesto	Apple Cream Pie
	Pumpkin Seed Bread	Thai Style Soup	Delicata Squash with Wilted Kale	Savory Herbed Green Salad	Frozen Banana Nutmeg Pie
	It's a Wrap	Fortifying Fall Soup	Almond Falafels with Mushrooms and Orange Sauce	Apple, Orange, Ginger, Beet Salad	Snow Cookies
	Pineapple Parsley Citrus Juice	Sunflower Cashew Seed Cheese Logs	Quick Raw Pickles	Banana Ice Cream	Spicy Fig Jam

Make transitional vegetarian feasts with both raw and cooked foods, like baked or steamed veggies, squashes, yams, and gently simmered rice, quinoa, potatoes, lentils, homemade bread, and so on. Some of our dishes can be made a day in advance, like the pickles, soup, or seed cheese, and they often become even tastier the next day. Raw soups can be warmed, or lightly cooked, to meet your needs. You may wish to begin a meal with an energizing fresh juice, and end with your favorite tea or drink.

Single raw food recipes can be used to complement traditional cooked foods that are family favorites. My cousins from South Africa like to include the Festive Red Cabbage Salad as part of their holiday fare. Knowing they are making this salad bridges the miles, and brings us closer together in spirit.

Our dream is to feel the joy, to savor the abundance in our lives, and to be at peace and have heart-warming, memorable experiences with family, friends, and loved ones.