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<\/a><\/p>\nThanksgiving is right around the corner.\u00a0 After that–Christmas.\u00a0 Many holiday traditions involve food.\u00a0 We always serve my mother-in-laws famous green bean and sweet potatoes. The green beans have 3 pounds of Velveeta in them, and I probably won’t share that recipe, as we only have it twice a year.\u00a0 It is VERY tasty though.\u00a0 it comes with a warning from a cardiologist!<\/p>\n
I have two favorite food memories from my child hood.\u00a0 One we have continued with my own children, and the other, not so much.\u00a0 The first is our family tradition of baking cookies\/candy for others at Christmas.\u00a0 It started with a sour cream cut out recipe from my grandmother and has grown into NUMEROUS recipes made, and tons of cookies being given away by my Mom and my four siblings every year.\u00a0 This year, my children are involved, and will choose a recipe to make.\u00a0 It does them good to do something that benefits others.<\/p>\n My other memory is somewhat silly.\u00a0 When I was little, every year Santa brought an assortment of nuts in a bowl.\u00a0 Christmas morning, there would be the bowl of nuts and a nut cracker.\u00a0 As kids, we would eat the peanuts eventually, then my Dad would crack the rest for my Mom to use in baking later.\u00a0 I never have been sure about that one–but it is always something\u00a0 I remember, and think about when I see a nut display!<\/p>\n Here is the original cut out cookie recipe from my very German Grandma.\u00a0 I would use lower fat sour cream and a little less\u00a0shortening and sugar\u00a0to make it healthier.<\/p>\n \n Chill for one hour then roll out and bake\u00a0 at 350 F until lightly browned.\u00a0 This recipe is written just like the recipe card my Mom copied for me.\u00a0 I added the final directions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For more heart healthy holiday recipes, check out these blogs from other Recipe Redux bloggers!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanksgiving is right around the corner.\u00a0 After that–Christmas.\u00a0 Many holiday traditions involve food.\u00a0 We always serve my mother-in-laws famous green bean and sweet potatoes. The green beans have 3 pounds of Velveeta in them, and I probably won’t share that recipe, as we only have it twice a year.\u00a0 It is VERY tasty though.\u00a0 it Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,55],"tags":[1022,1094],"class_list":["post-11114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-h","category-c","tag-christmas-cookies","tag-h","cat-551-id","cat-55-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/October-2009-076.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11126,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11114\/revisions\/11126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nGrandma’s Cut Out Christmas Cookies<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n
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