H ere's some ideas from the Food for Health Newsletter to help you with the light approach to holiday and year around fare. Use bread spreads such as apple butter, roasted garlic or marmelade instead of butter or margarine. Use evaporated skim, lowfat or nonfat milk in mashed potatoes. Forget the butter or margarine and add some garlic or rosemary to give the potatoes some extra zest. Try a non-fat salad dressing as a substitute for sour cream on baked potatoes.
Salsa makes a great topping for baked potatoes, too.
Baked sweet potatoes are naturally sweet. Look for the red yam instead of the drier fleshed yellow one. They have more flavor, color and moisture. Forget the butter and mash with a few tablespoons of orange juice for extra flavor. Try an lighter egg nog made with nonfat frozen vanilla yogurt blended with skim milk, nutmeg and a little rum extract.