Kerri Zurbuch's Thanksgiving Recipes

We love how our fitness friend Kerri Zurbuch always finds a way to combine glorious good taste AND nutrition in her recipes. Like these two: one ramps up the antioxidant levels of cranberry sauce and the other "healthifies" a Thanksgiving dessert!

Cranberry Sauce

Ocean Spray knows a thing or two about cranberries.

Follow their cranberry sauce recipe, and make Kerri's adjustments for increased nutritional value:

• Boil 15 minutes longer than the recipe calls for
• Stir in 1 and 1/2 cups of frozen mixed berries
• Let cool and put in the fridge to chill. Do this the night before Thanksgiving dinner

No-Bake Pumpkin Pie Cheese Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 can pumpkin pie filling
• 1/2 of an 8-ounce block of Philly cream cheese at room temp
• 1 box of instant vanilla pudding
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Blend the ingredients until smooth and pour into a graham cracker pie crust shell. Refrigerate until firm. (Kerri likes to make this the night before and freeze it. Pull it out of the freezer an hour before serving. Top with whipped cream, if you wish.)