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You’ve decarbed your holiday dinner: Fauxtatoes, grain-free dressing, sugar-free cheesecake with a nut crust. But without flour or cornstarch, how do you make gravy? Dana Carpender teaches how in just a few easy steps.

Low-Carb Christmas Cookies! You can have your candy canes, your eggnog, your figgy pudding–As far back as Dana can remember, the best Christmas delicacy has been cookies. She helps us carry on that tradition with some healthier alternatives to the high-carb holiday fare.

Over the top, but true, excess sugar is toxic to our health. In all its forms, whether processed or natural, too much sugar negatively influences not only our waistline but our health as well. Vanessa shares 5 tried and true strategies to side step sugar.

Under normal conditions it is clear that drugs and food are very different, however, because the brain reward systems responsible for making drugs of abuse so addictive are the same pleasure systems that are activated by the foods we eat, our brains can have a very hard time differentiating between the pleasure derived from mild doses of some drugs of abuse and some types of food. Dr. Nicole Avena shows us the primary differences between food and drugs of abuse and how these differences contribute to food addiction.

Bored with your traditional holiday meals? Tracey shows us how to put a new low carb spin on classic Mediterranean dishes to jazz up your holiday feast.

There are less than 15 net carbs contained in this decadent, Low-Carb Thanksgiving Meal! Franziska Spritzler shows you how to stay well within your daily carb limit as you enjoy this very special holiday.

If you're ok with a couple extra carbs in your healthy vegetable side dishes, you'll want to try this Low-Carb Green Beans with Bacon recipe. Fresh green beans and cooked bacon strips will elevate your everyday green beans. This fresh low-carb dish is an excellent alternative to plain cooked green beans.

Faux Cauli-Mashed “Potatoes” is the perfect low-carb potato substitute which you can serve for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any time of the year.

Low-Carb pumpkin cheesecake recipe eliminates the usual flour and sugar found in the ingredients for a nut-based crust and a low-carb sugar substitute like erythritol.

You're Invited to P3 & BaconPalooza at Polyface Farm Sept 7-8, 13 in Swoope, VA. Celebrate the mission and vision of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund as everywhere evidenced at the amazing Polyface Farm.