Holidays: calories in each holiday's food

Holidays have their own food. For each one, the calories and nutrients of what gets served, dish by dish, from reference recipes and USDA data.

🕯️ Day of the Dead

The Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 1 and 2, mostly in Mexico. Pan de muerto, tamales, champurrado, atole, hot chocolate and candied pumpkin appear on the altars and at the table. Here are their calories and nutrients per serving, calculated from reference recipes and USDA data.

🦃 Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November, and in Canada on the second Monday of October. Dinner centers on roast turkey, with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, candied sweet potatoes and pumpkin or pecan pie for dessert. Here are the calories dish by dish, calculated from reference recipes and USDA data.

🎄 Christmas

Christmas Eve dinner changes from country to country. Mexico serves turkey, Basque-style salt cod, apple salad and fruit punch; Puerto Rico and Venezuela, roast pork leg; Spain and the River Plate, turrón; the United States, eggnog and fruitcake. Here are the calories dish by dish, calculated from reference recipes and USDA data.

🎆 New Year's Eve

At midnight on December 31, Spain and much of Latin America eat 12 grapes, one for each chime of the clock. In Chile and other countries, a spoonful of lentils is said to bring abundance. Dinner looks like Christmas: roast pork leg, turkey, turrón and a toast. Here are the calories in each, with USDA data.

Coming soon: Three Kings' Day, Easter, and national holidays.