Immune Boosting Thanksgiving Snack and Decoration!

I love thanksgiving, it is my favorite holiday! I love the family time, the coziness, the gratitude that floats throughout the air and the smells of delicious food too of course. I also always struggle with what I should make to take along to the meal and how healthy it should be. With all the sugar and cold weather, and germs it can be an immune system bomb, holiday colds just waiting to happen. I also like my food to be pretty for the holidays, a little more fun than normal, it just makes the whole holiday more special to me. So this year I made these immune boosting apple chips that also double as a table decoration! Killed two birds with one stone this time around. The smell when you dehydrate these is just wonderful it just diffuses the whole house with immune boosting essential oil. Plus, the are really good to snack on, can't stop at just one!

You will need:

• Apples 7-9 depending on size
• Coconut sugar 2 Tbs
• Doterra's OnGaurd essential oil blend (http://www.mydoterra.com/essentiallyerin/index.html)
• Lemon juice
• Dehydrator
• Mandolin slicer 
• Cinnamon stick
• Ribbon 
• Mini turkey cookie cutter (optional) 

Take your apples and slice them horizontally on your mandolin

Mix your coconut sugar and 6-10 drops of essential oil together

Now you can use the optional, but very cute, cookie cutter to make a bigger hole. You will want to make sure there is at most a little hole to make it into a decoration later :)

Dunk the apple slices in the lemon juice mixed with some water to fill a bowl half way. This step prevents extra browning and helps the sugar oil mix stick better

Place the apple chips on the dehydrator trays and sprinkle with a little of the oil and sugar mix

Now set the dehydrator for 140 and let it go for about 24 hours

When they are dry to your liking carefully take off the trays and string them on your ribbon

Tie the ends of the ribbon together and cut off or tuck the excess into the apple ring

Now take your cinnamon stick and place in the center and you have a little apple pumpkin that you can take apart and eat for pre or post dinner snacking!

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

The Farmer in the Dell