5 Thanksgiving Recipes That Won't Put You to Sleep

How to feast without the food coma.


Beyond the pilgrims and the Indians, there are two other camps of Thankgiving-ers: the horizontals and the verticals. The former takes the post-feast delirium lying down, literally and gladly, while the latter fights it, physically. Naturally, the couch-hugging, Netflix-crushing horizontals have an easier time sticking to their post-meal agenda than the turkey-trotting, football-playing verticals. It's gravity, yes, but it's also turkey's tryptophan (which actually is proven to make you sleepy) and lengthy conversations with super-boring relatives (which doesn't really need to be proven to be Ambien-like, does it?).

So this year, to even the playing field a bit, we've whipped up an attack plan for the verticals—and a food-related one at that, so it'll actually be easy to stick to. From main courses to sides to dessert, we've found five Thanksgiving recipes stuffed with natural, energy-boosting ingredients, like caffeine and chipotle peppers. They'll help fight off the food coma no matter how much turkey you eat, which is a mega-win for the verticals and maybe for the horizontals too. Because even if your only after-food plans are to watch a movie on the couch, who really wants to fall asleep halfway through Love Actually and miss that feel-good ending? With these foods, you can have your feast and still feel awake afterwards, too.

 Click through to see each of the five recipes, which come courtesy of delish.com.

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