How to stay trim over the holidays tip #1
Instead of eating dessert think about it. There are 385 calories in a slice of cheesecake. There are 0 calories in thinking about cheesecake.
Tip #2
Skip your first helping of food and go straight to your second. Calling it your second will trick your body into thinking that it is full.


Tip #3 Play Over-Under the game that keeps you slim!
Either over or under prepare each dish. Nothing stops up a craving like frozen turkey and melted ice-cream. Make it fun where guests compete in a round robin style tournament where they guess at whether the dish is under-and likely to give them salmonella poisoning etc. or over- and likely to cook their insides, prepared. Winner takes all!

Whatever. The only thing that needs to be trim this holiday is the tree. Now grab yourself a box of chocolate, a jug of eggnog, and some ornaments and get trimming!


Holiday Recipe- Protein Alternative for the Vegetarian

Festive Tabouli

1 box of Tabouli
1cup mushrooms cremini (can also mix in Shiitake)
½ cup cranberries (either dried or canned)
1cup sliced almonds (and or pecans)
1tbl spoon oil

Prepare one box of Tabouli as per directions and set aside.
In a frying pan over medium heat combine oil, mushrooms, and nuts. Cook until nuts are golden and mushrooms are tender. Then stir ingredients along with cranberries into the Tabouli. You may also wish to use the above as ingredients to stuff peppers with. In which case cut your pepper in half length ways. Scoop out any seeds. Fill with the mixture. Top with grated cheese. Or sprinkle with parmesan. Then bake in the oven at 350 degrees until the pepper is tender and the cheese melted.