Kids' Holiday Favorites and Balancing Nutrition - as part of the nutrition series by GeoBeats. Some clever ways to supplement those traditional holiday foods with healthier items for your kids would be, your sneak vegetables into some of the traditional holiday favorites. For example, you can sneak cauliflower into those mashed potatoes. You are going to get another non-starchy vegetable in there, and extend it so that you have fewer calories. Also think about using low fat or fat free evaporated milk in place of cream in those mashed potatoes, and in other holiday favorites such as pumpkin pie. You know a pumpkin pie, the filling, the pumpkin is loaded with beta-carotene and fiber, but when you add whole milk or cream to that filling, you know it makes it an unhealthy food. But if you can make that pumpkin pie with canned evaporated non fat or low fat milk, you are keeping it a very healthful filling to the pie. Another thing you could do is to sneak whole wheat flour into pie crusts, into cookies, into many of the baked items that you make. You can buy whole wheat pastry flour, which is ground much finer and go half and half with the white flour in cookies and pie crust. And you are sneaking in some fiber, you are sneaking in some nutrition without altering the taste too much at all. Another thing is to - a kid favorite is jello salad at the holidays. Load that up with fresh fruit and maybe some nuts as well. So if you put strawberries, bananas, chopped walnuts, chopped pistachios into a jello salad, you are supplementing the sugar with lots and lots of vitamins and minerals.