to pull out your family-favorite holiday recipes. With Thanksgiving kicking things off next week, and holiday parties and gatherings to follow, now is the time to plan for those occasions. Look over the ingredients in your recipes to see if any can be adjusted to lighten up the calories, sodium, fat or sugar content without reducing the flavor.
There are many tasty and healthy staple ingredients for holidays recipes: reduced-fat sour cream, cream cheese and grated cheese; fat-free half & half cream and evaporated milk; no-trans-fat tub margarine; olive or canola oils; vegetable cooking spray; and whole-grain flours.
