Probiotic Avocado Kids Dip Recipe {Plus Holiday Tips} (2024)

This is the best recipe for holiday dips, Christmas dips, and parties in general. And it’s a great kids dip. Kids love to dip those veggies!

Do you have a healthy eating strategy for big holiday parties?

I have a specific game plan that targets the most volatile UNhealthy areas, roots them out, and front loads with the good stuff so there’s less room for the bad.

I call it the “I’ll bring a few appetizers and a dessert” game plan.

The tactics are so subvert, my opponents don’t even know they’re in a battle, and no one feels badly when I win. Which is good, because they’re family and I love them.

Healthy Holiday Dips

You see, most of the time there are real food options for the main course, especially at a Thanksgiving dinner. A turkey, even if CAFO-raised, is at least meat, not some unknown substance my body doesn’t recognize but I have to eat anyway. Mashed potatoes have a chance at being additive-free. And there are always some genuine vegetables floating around.

The dessert table is always a mess of white flour, white sugar, and trans fat, so for Thanksgiving, I bring a few healthy pumpkin pies. I can ensure healthy fats in the crust plus vegetables, pastured organic eggs, and a small amount of unrefined sweetener in the filling. It’s a great way to redeem dessert.

My Secret Strategy.

But my key positioning is in frontloading the meal. I bring at least two appetizers that I know my kids like and coincidentally forget to tell them to “save room for dinner.” I might even subversively encourage them to pig out on what I brought by quietly serving rather large portions.

Kids Dip

It’s like the optimist’s glass half full: if my kids are half full of nourishing foods, like this dip, I don’t have to worry so much about telling them not to eat the junk.

Over the years I’ve also established a few specialties that are so good, family members request that I bring them again and again. [insert maniacal mastermind laugh here] They’re playing right into my hands! Everyone wins.

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Our Favorites Holiday Dips

They usually clamor for this spicy cheesy chicken dip with homemade whole wheat crackers (and another gluten-free option):

Trust me, you want to pin that one.

Other recipes rotate in and out over the years, including homemade potato salad, fresh fruit, and deviled eggs. Lately though I’ve been bringing a little probiotic twist on an avocado dip that looks enough like guacamole to be yummy by association (and then holds its own on pure taste, too!).

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Do you have a strategy for what you bring to holiday gatherings?

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