Cooking Video: Low Calorie Cocktails

  You can still enjoy a few drinks on Christmas and New Year’s Eve, without breaking the calorie bank. Registered Dietician Elizabeth Somer provides tips that help you to “drink this, not that,” to borrow a phrase from the popular book by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding. In fact, the book series that includes Drink…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Christmas Tea (Or Wine) Break With Christmas Bread

Gingerbread may be the best known Christmas “bread” in the U.S. Hopefully you’ll enjoy a few bites before the season ends (and send someone an adorable Gingerista gingerbread family that mirrors his or her household). But don’t let the holidays pass you by without trying pandoro, panettone, panforte and/or stollen. All are delicious with spiced…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Healthy Holiday Eating

It’s not low-calorie if it’s loaded with fattening dip. Serve a nonfat dip! Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. Do the pants that fit before Thanksgiving dinner still fit? If not—or if you’re concerned that they won’t—here are some healthy holiday eating tips for hosts and guests from Women’s Health nutritionist Keri Glassman and THE…
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GIFT OF THE DAY: The Best Toffee, Regular & Sugar-Free

Our vote for World’s Best Toffee. Photo We taste lots of toffee each year, but have never found one we like as much as Enstrom’s. It’s a very buttery toffee; and that rich, buttery flavor combined with excellent chocolate and nuts makes the product stand out. There’s so much butter that the company recommends refrigerating…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Strawberries For The Holidays

Holiday season is high-calorie season. But you can help your calorie-stressed guests. In addition to serving crudités as an option to the seductive Brie Torte, provide fresh fruit for guests who are watching calories or carbs, don’t eat refined sugar or are doing their best to avoid plunging into your brownies and butter cookies. Fresh…
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