It is “turkey time”.  Interested in making it a bit easier on yourself? Through November 23, 2021, you can pre-order turkeys, hams, rib roasts, and other complete prepared meals.  Sprouts Farmers Market, 3757 Military Trail, Jupiter, is also offering party trays and desserts.  Sprouts offer local produce from Florida farmers.  The fruit and veggies will arrive making them as ripe as the day they were harvested. 

These prepared meals are ready to heat and serve. The meal packages are priced from $35.99 to $79.99, including the main course and traditional trimmings and sides.

Main courses include:

-  Roasted Boneless Turkey Breast for 2 people

- Natural Whole Turkey for 6 to 8 people

- Spiral-sliced Ham

- USDA Choice Boneless Rib…

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Hosting Thanksgiving Dinner is a colossal undertaking.  If you have ever hosted dinner for 20 you know the amount of work, it takes to take on. Why not give yourself the grace and allow The Beacon, in Jupiter, to help by taking orders for holiday pies.

Traditionally, Thanksgiving features a couple favorite pies. Pecan, pumpkin, and apple are often found on the Thanksgiving dinner table. The pumpkin is a symbol of harvest time, and pumpkin pie is often eaten during the fall and early winter. In the United States and Canada, it is usually prepared for Thanksgiving, and other occasions when pumpkin is in season.  Holiday pies are filled with favorite fall flavors.

THANKSGIVING PIES:  Pumpkin, Pecan and Apple Dutch

$35 Per Pie

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Step outside your favorite holiday cookie comfort zone and try the recipe that Southeast Floridians have selected as the favorite cookie to serve at holidays.  The holiday cookie fan favorite is the Key Lime Pie cookie, or the Key Lime Pie sandwich cookies filled with a tangy cream. The cookies are soft, buttery graham cookies with a  tangy key lime-flavored icing on top or cream in the middle.

Picking a favorite cookie seems like a nearly impossible task, but somehow every state in the US has managed to have a different cookie listed as their state’s top cookie. Some remain loyal to the original chocolate chip cookie and sugar cookie while other states prefer a nontraditional cookie.  Give the nontraditional holiday cookie that Floridians enjoy. …

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A vegetarian is a person who does not eat meat, and sometimes other animal products, especially for moral, religious, or health reasons.Vegetables are endlessly interesting to cook and a joy to eat and there are a variety of vegetarian healthy restaurants spread across the Palm Beaches, and many of them around the Jupiter area. Your body, the planet and the animals will thank you for it.  

Plant life. Why go vegetarian you ask? Well, there are several reasons why to go vegetarian.  You will live a lot longer. You will save your heart.  You will avoid toxic chemicals.  Your bones will last longer.  Going vegetarian is very simple to do.

Here are a 3 suggestions of quick eateries to eat healthy, vegetarian foods in the Jupiter area. 

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The cost of homes has climbed sharply. Palm Beach did NOT make the top ten most expensive zip codes. Southeast Florida is an affordable paradise to call home. The top ten most expensive zip codes in the United States all have median home prices of more than $4 million, according to a report from Property Shark.

Of the 100 top priciest zip codes, 30 have median prices of over $3 million, more than twice the number of areas at that price last year.  The top two are:

  1. Atherton, California, sits outside of San Francisco in Silicon Valley and is home to tech billionaires and venture capitalists. It is the most expensive zip code in the country for the fifth year in a row, with a median home price of $7.5 million.                                   …

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Like all modern holidays, Thanksgiving has changed and developed into the uniquely American tradition that we all love and enjoy so much today. There is a lot about Thanksgiving that you probably don’t know. Here are a few interesting facts to either intrigue or annoy your relatives on Turkey Day in Palm Beach County.

The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and lasted three days. Also, did you know that turkey wasn't even served at the first Thanksgiving — and that the Pilgrims didn’t use forks because they weren’t invented yet? Impress your kids (and the in-laws!) with these crazy, yet true, fun facts about Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving leftovers led to the creation of frozen TV…

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Martin County is home to an award-winning apiary. Hani Honey Company, located at 5219 S.E. Ebbtide Avenue, Stuart is a family-owned apiary.  An apiary is a location where beehives of honeybees are kept. “tending bees with care and placing the girls in optimal foraging environments to harvest fresh, Florida local, delicious, award-winning Wildflower Honey”.  Hani Honey Company specializes in producing honey from whatever is blooming in the region every season. It is an all-natural process without heat allowing all of the bees amazing work to remain in the natural honey.

Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the care of honeybees that ensures that they produce more honey than they can use. An apiary typically consists of many separate beehives. Hani Honey…

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The Abacoa Green Market, organized and started by restauranteur Ryan Witkowski, owner of Stadium Grill, kicked off at the beginning of October.  The Abacoa Green Market is held from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The green market is every Wednesday at the Abacoa Amphitheatre in Jupiter.  

The next market is November 10, 2021. It features fresh produce, seafood, artisan cheeses, baked goods, arts and crafts, photography, and more. Find the green market at 1260 University Boulevard, Abacoa Amphitheater, in Jupiter.  Live music by Balatovis, specialty vendors, locally handmade artisanal goods, curated art, and more!

For more information, or becoming a vendor, please email abacoagreenmarket@gmail.com.

 

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The 10th Annual Chili Cook-Off and Beer Tasting Event honors Palm Beach County local heroes on Saturday, November 13th, 2021, between 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM. The chili cookoff will take place at One Main Street, in Tequesta.  

The food festival will be a full day of fun, food, and honoring our local heroes. The day will entail:

 - An award ceremony honoring WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Wounded Veterans, and Gold Star Families. 

- Military flyovers from the US Coast Guard, PBC Sheriff's Office, and the Pratt Whitney Black Hawk.

 - 32 Teams from public safety, military, and the private sector compete for the best chili; Judging is done by15 local celebrity judges; there is also a People's Choice Award voted on by all attendees.

 - Craft beer…

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There is an "old Florida" eatery in the Ben Autograph Collection Hotel in West Palm Beach, offering premier views of the Palm Harbor Marina and Intracoastal Waterway. Proper Grit is a proper Florida Public House serving locally souced, comfortable cuisine. The hotel feeds into the spirit of West Palm Beach’s great locales. The hotel’s new executive chef, Jesse Pita has created a divine new menu for the eatery, the Proper Grit.

Proper Grit honors the high-spirited, casual-yet-refined experience of an early nineteenth-century public house, with the inventive food and beverages of a modern-day gastropub. The restaurant is in the lobby-floor dining room styled after Old Florida’s regal beginnings mixed with the warm, casual comforts of home, Proper…

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