1. Limit (avoid?)
appetizers—you can easily take in a meal’s worth of calories in stuffed
mushrooms, cheese, crackers, nuts and dips.
Chew gum while you cook or brush your teeth beforehand so you are less
likely to nibble.
2. Start the meal
with a low fat soup (fluid fills up your stomach)
3. Make at least two
non-starchy vegetable dishes (so you can fill half your plate)
· Roasted broccoli,
Brussels sprouts or cauliflower adds a unique twist on “common” foods. http://www.eatingwell.com/healthy_cooking
/healthy_cooking_101/shopping_cooking_guides/vegetable_roasting_guide
4. Consider limiting
simple carbohydrate-based foods. Do you
really need mashed potatoes and stuffing and sweet potato casserole and
macaroni and cheese and dinner rolls?
Choose a couple of family favorites and save the others for a different
holiday meal.
5. Don’t over-do it
on variety. More options = more
calories. Your palate doesn’t get
“bored”
6. Seek out healthy (but
delicious) substitutions
· Mashed
cauliflower
· Vegetable (not
bread) based stuffing
· Fresh herbs and
roasted garlic rather than butter and salt to add flavor
· Lower sugar desserts
7. Leave the food in
the kitchen, not on the table. If anyone
wants seconds, they can get up and go get some, but it’s less tempting if it’s
less available.
8. Cancel your
membership to the clean plate club, and let others do the same. It’s easy for our eyes to be bigger than our
stomach at this time of year. It can end
up as “waste” or “on your waist.” You
decide.
9. Resist the urge
to make multiple desserts – stick to one and sensible portions
10. Send leftovers
home with others. Stock up on “Gladware”
and get it out of the house
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