Every family has traditional holiday foods that show up on the table year after year. Instead of using the holidays as an excuse for high-fat, high-calorie feasting, use these five easy tips to remake your holiday favorites with good health in mind. Holiday Tip #1: Control Portions Set the holiday table with your family’s heirloom china. This will help you automatically downsize portion sizes, because until the late 1960’s, dinner plates were 9 inches or so in diameter. Today’s plates have an average diameter of 12 inches. No one will notice a decrease in portion sizes when you use smaller plates and glasses. Cut Grandma’s luscious Christmas cake into 18 servings, portion your favorite holiday cookie recipe to make 4 dozen smaller cookies instead of 3 dozen larger ones, cut fudge into 1”x1” pieces, and use 4-ounce glasses for your favorite sparkling punch. Holiday Tip #2: Double Up on Vegetables Serve vitamin-packed, lower carbohydrate vegetables like asparagus, Brussels s
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:30:27 +0000
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