Forget the cookies and fudge this year. Well Balanced Being healthy, wealthy and wise during and after the holidays. You can cook quickly and nutritiously at home. We know from all the jokes about it that fruitcake is definitely pass as a holiday gift, and widespread weight-watching has made fudge equally unpopular.
Muffins make great holiday gifts, providing quick energy at breakfast or snack time.
Beatrice Ojakangas, whose books include Light Muffins. Try one of her healthy muffin recipes, low in fat, smaller in size and full of nutritious ingredients like carrots, raisins and whole-wheat flour. Fruit, applesauce and skim milk keep these muffins moist and sweet while cutting fat grams and sugar content substantially. For a more gourmet food gift, prepare a few bottles of flavored vinegar. Ojakangas puts her big herb garden to work to make hers, producing vinegars flavored with rosemary, tarragon, thyme, lavender and basil.