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.
🦃 Your Thanksgiving Dinner: Planned
I've been cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my huge fam for decades, so you know I've got you covered with an awesome menu. Here's what to serve this turkey day:
🎁 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.
👋 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.
📈 Most Popular Holiday Recipes
New around here? Dive into my top 10 most popular holiday recipes of all time. Thousands of five star reviews can't be wrong!
🥧 Thanksgiving Pie Recipes
Thanksgiving is THE pie holiday! Start off with my all butter pie crust or my gluten-free pie crust recipe and then let your imagination run wild.
🍹Cocktails for a Crowd: Thanksgiving Sips
Thanksgiving (or Friendsgiving!) is a great opportunity to flex your mixologist muscles. Try out some of these fan favorite cocktails at your holiday meal.
🎁 Easy and Affordable DIY Food Gifts
Handmade gifts are the best gifts! I've got so many amazing, thoughtful food gift ideas that your giftee will actually love (and use).
🎅🏻 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
🥣 Got Thanksgiving Leftovers? I Got You.
You don't have to eat a 473rd turkey sandwich (unless you really want to). Give those turkey day leftovers taking up room in your fridge new life!
📚 Shop My Cookbooks & Guides
Gifts in Jars Book
Get 80 kitchen-tested quick and easy handmade food gift ideas plus all the labels in this digital cookbook!
Thanksgiving Planner
I've compiled decades of Thanksgiving cooking experience into one simple digital eBook!
The $2 Dinner Plan
Serve your family healthy dinners for less than $50 in groceries per week with this full menu plan.
Guide to School Lunches
All of my knowledge from years of making thousands of school lunches for kiddos in one digital eBook!
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!
Cooking with Greek Yogurt Cookbook
Expand beyond yogurt parfaits and learn all the magical ways you can use Greek Yogurt in your kitchen.