{"id":757,"date":"2015-11-16T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipa.local\/blog\/?post_type=ftg&#038;p=757"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:02:58","slug":"serve-probiotics-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/serve-probiotics-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Serve Up Probiotics on the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Holiday feasts.<\/strong> We love them: creamy casseroles, massive portions of meats and gooey desserts. When the fat and sugar-laden foods demand digestion however, the stomach\u00a0isn\u2019t always a fan .<\/p>\n<p>Rather than abstain entirely or suffer physical backlash, do a little planning.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the <strong>host<\/strong>, do your guests a favor and lighten it up with probiotic-rich foods. They may not notice except the scale won\u2019t budge the day after.<\/p>\n<p>For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Substitute <strong>whole milk yogurt<\/strong> instead of sour cream or cream in dips, sauces, pies and casseroles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steam vegetables<\/strong> in lieu of casseroles. Top with lemon yogurt sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Add<strong> kimchi<\/strong> to the appetizer table<\/li>\n<li>Serve <strong>fermented cheeses<\/strong> along with a <strong>vegetable plate<\/strong> to serve as prebiotics.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Use <strong>buttermilk<\/strong> in place of whole milk in recipes.<\/li>\n<li>Ditch the fatty pie crust and present the fillings as puddings or trifles laced with <strong>sweet yogurt and nuts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bake or grill sweet potatoes<\/strong> with olive oil and thyme. Save the marshmallows for dessert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you\u2019re the <strong>guest<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try a spoonful of everything; you don\u2019t want to insult the cook.<\/li>\n<li>Casseroles are a big mystery. Play it safe and assume that loads of butter, cheese or cream is inside.<\/li>\n<li>Fill your plate with the lower-calorie items: <strong>salads, fruits, fish.<\/strong> Some of the vegetables will be good sources of prebiotics to feed your microbe colonies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bon appetit!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday feasts. We love them: creamy casseroles, massive portions of meats and gooey desserts. When the fat and sugar-laden foods demand digestion however, the stomach\u00a0isn\u2019t always a fan . Rather than abstain entirely or suffer physical backlash, do a little planning. If you are the host, do your guests a favor and lighten it up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}