Day 117- Nutrition Bite

Healthy wedding tips from the Sierra Club:

• Showcase green gustatory pleasures by planning your menu around local, organic, and seasonal foods.
• Ask the venue's preferred caterers and bakers if they can do your event organically.
• Find a local organic restaurant that does off-site catering. If your wedding won't be complete without a specific type of food, get married when it's in season.
• Find a caterer you trust to pick the best seasonal selections (since you may not be able to taste those exact items ahead of time).
• Consider vegetarian selections and seek out free meats and wild, rather than farmed, fish.
• Make sure the venue offers comprehensive recycling facilities and ideally composting too.
• Have your cake decorated with organically grown flowers or other natural materials instead of plastic toppers.
• Rent real glassware, dishware, and linens instead of using disposables.
• Go for a chic eclectic look by mixing and matching thrift-store plates and dishes (and donating them back when you're done).
• Use biodegradable utensils and dishes if your venue can composte them. Make arrangements to donate leftover food to a local food bank or homeless shelter.http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2007/03/10_steps_to_a_g.html

Sugar Preacher's Experience

I like these tips, especially donating food to the local homeless shelter. We have had unhealthy leftover wedding food crammed in the refrigeration for the past week. It is very tempting to eat key lime pie, cheesecake, and wedding cake when it is in front of your face every time you open the fridge. My mom eventually started delivering it to the neighbors. Good riddins' to the junk food(pics in the right hand corner)!!!

Day 116- Nutrition Bite

Here are some healthy wedding foods posted on other blogs--a vegetarian couple created this menu with their caterer: Organic Creole Polenta, Israeli Couscous With Mission Fig and Caramelized Pear, Vegetable Étoufée, and Sautéed Oyster Mushrooms, etc. All these menu items and more are made available for each person to mix and match to his or her liking and will be beautifully served by a chef on a small plate. Another wedding at a local nature preserve served veggie sushi, a variety of salads, many middle eastern entres, African breads and other ethnic yummies. So much food was left over that the local homeless shelters received the best food they had eaten in months.

Sugar Preacher's Experience
My sister was married recently. The only healthy food selection was a fruit tray. You would think with a sugar shun sister that there would have been a healthy food selection. Instead, the food choices were key lime pie, cheese cake, candy, cream puffs, eclairs, chicken croissants, etc.. Maybe I am complaining because the temptation was too much. I did taste the key lime pie and the wedding cake (picture posted on blog) everybody was raving about. However, I thought the cake was too sweet with pure sugar, but I did like the creamy texture and flavor of the key lime pie. Well, my sister's wedding was a great day!!

Day 115- Nutrition Bite

VideoJug: Will a heart-healthy wedding cake still taste good?

The video discusses how healthy wedding cakes can taste good. A suggestion was to substitute applesauce for oil.. Click on the video for more details. 

Sugar Preacher's Experience

My sister was married last week. She had a beautiful wedding cake, but the cake had no nutritional value. I will post pictures of her cake tomorrow and more wedding details. Wedding cakes can be healthy and taste good!!  Find a caterer who specializes in organic and healthy cooking!!