Your Thanksgiving meal doesn’t have to culminate in an hour(s)-long couch coma. Instead, your holiday feast can result in you feeling good—or even great. How? By mixing in a couple low-ABV (or NA) drinks and building a menu around seasonal, ingredient-forward sides, salads, and desserts. Thanks to our recipe ideas below, you might even become one of those people who asks, post-Thanksgiving: "Who wants to go for a walk?"

Some of these cocktails are entirely nonalcoholic. Others just carry a lightened punch. Compared to traditional libations, all of them are certain to make your Friday morning much, much brighter.

These shareable dishes are straightforward in prep, light on ingredients, and deep with festive, familiar flavors. Best of all, they won't make you feel sluggish after a few servings.

We're pro-salad at Thanksgiving, and these leafy green (and purple!) recipes create harmony. Meaning, they strike the balance of brightness, acidity, and crunch so that you can dive—head first—into that next bite of turkey.

We'd never say no to a pumpkin or pecan pie, but sometimes we prefer sweet treats that lean on the season’s finest fruits, or, in one case, vegetables.

Odds are, you'll still be making a turkey, and while we can't take out the tryptophan, we can say this recipe is one of our very best. And isn't making something delicious an energizing experience in itself?