Easy Family Recipes, Canning, Meal Prep & Holidays

Homemade should be joyful, not overwhelming. At Wholefully, I share holiday traditions, easy family recipes, and meal prep tips to make home cooking feel doable.

📈 Most Popular Christmas Recipes

Five yellow stars in a row

New around here? Dive into my top 10 most popular holiday recipes of all time. Thousands of five star reviews can't be wrong!

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🎁 Learn the 5 simple ideas that make handmade holidays easy and affordable!

FREE Easy & Affordable Handmade Holidays Guide

Fun, festive, and budget-friendly ideas to fill your season with handmade joy-from food to gifts to crafts.

🎄 Easy and Affordable DIY Food Gifts

I'm the queen of handmade food gifts! So much so that I wrote a book about it. If you're looking for thoughtful, easy, affordable handmade gift ideas, I got you.

👋 Hey there! I'm Cassie Johnston.

Wholefully Founder and Creative Director

I'm a Holistic Nutritionist, cookbook author (x3!), Certified Health Coach, and expert recipe developer, and I believe homemade should be simplified. With more than 15 years of professional recipe development, catering, and personal chef experience, I know how to take the overwhelm out of cooking, canning, meal prep, and even holiday traditions. Every recipe and tutorial I share is approachable, tested, and designed to work perfectly every time, so you can feel confident bringing homemade joy to your table.

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 🧆 Christmas apps for days.

Don't want to cook a turkey AGAIN for Christmas? Meet the Christmas appetizer dinner! Serve casual, festive apps for Christmas this year, and you'll never look back.

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🎅🏻 Looking for more handmade food gift ideas?

Check out Gifts in Jars! In this digital cookbook, I pulled together 80 amazing handmade food gift ideas to help your holiday gifting be more thoughtful and more affordable.

  • 80 unique food gift ideas
  • Full recipes, full color photography
  • Most cost less than $5 to make
  • Most take less than 5 minutes to make
  • Free printable labels for every gift idea included
  • LIMITED TIME BONUS: 4 free mini Christmas cookbooks
Gifts in jars Digital cookbook ($12)

 🥞 Christmas Morning Breakfast

Looking for an easy breakfast for the most cozy of mornings? Here are my favorite ideas for Christmas morning breakfast.

🍸 Have a cup of cheer: Christmas cocktails

Christmas is a great opportunity to flex your mixologist muscles. Try out some of these fan favorite cocktails at your holiday meal.

📚 Shop My Cookbooks & Guides

  • Gifts in Jars book cover

    • Gifts in Jars Book

    Get 80 kitchen-tested quick and easy handmade food gift ideas plus all the labels in this digital cookbook!

  • Side view of a blended frozen peach and almond drink in a glass on a light background.

    • Thanksgiving Planner

    I've compiled decades of Thanksgiving cooking experience into one simple digital eBook! 

  • A mockup of the $2 Dinner Plan cover on an tablet overlayed over the pages inside the plan

    • The $2 Dinner Plan

    Serve your family healthy dinners for less than $50 in groceries per week with this full menu plan.

  • Mockup of how the Ultimate Guide to Healthy School Lunches shows up on iPads and mobile devices

    • Guide to School Lunches

    All of my knowledge from years of making thousands of school lunches for kiddos in one digital eBook! 

  • Cover of Chia, Quinoa, Kale, Oh My!

    • Chia, Quinoa, Kale, Oh My! Cookbook

    If you're looking for new and interesting ways to cook with your favorite superfoods, this print cookbook is for you!

  • Cover of Cooking with Greek Yogurt

    • Cooking with Greek Yogurt Cookbook

    Expand beyond yogurt parfaits and learn all the magical ways you can use Greek Yogurt in your kitchen.