More Green Holiday Entertaining Options

On the menu for my holiday open house were mostly vegetarian options (I did have turkey and cheese for those who must have meat at every meal). Pictured above is a wonderful black eye pea salad, which was served with whole wheat pita chips.

Fruit bowl does double duty as centerpiece and healthy snack alternative.

Vegan antipasti (almost raw dish) features lots of veggies (peppers, onions, artichokes, asparagus, mushrooms, herbs and olives), grilled tofu and vegan pepperoni. This was a very popular dish, even among the "what in the world is tofu?" set.

All excess food (wasn't much excess) was composted and with the exception of the sugar cane plates, no disposable items were used.