Repurpose that basket into a crudité server: Fill it with your favorite sliced raw vegetables and whole veggies—baby carrots, cherry tomatoes and radishes, for example—along with the dip.

Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, suggests three creamy dips:

• Quark and Fresh Tarragon Dip with Champagne vinegar and Dijon mustard
• Mascarpone and Ancho Chili Dip with cilantro, lime juice and molasses
• Fromage Blanc Greek Dip with cucumber, dill and garlic

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One dip in the basket is fine and leaves more room for veggies. But it’s always nice to offer veggie-lovers a choice of two. Make one low-calorie, based on nonfat yogurt.

Turn a pretty basket into a crudité-and-dip
holder. Photo courtesy Vermont Butter &
Cheese Creamery.