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5 secrets for baking healthier holiday cookies

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I love giving homemade cookies as gifts to friends and family, but I don’t want to feel like I’m sabotaging someone’s diet with my present. So this year, I’m going to fill my cookie tins with healthier cookies. To make the cookies in your holiday tin healthier (and still use your favorite recipes), try my 5 secrets for baking healthier cookies.

How to make crispy latkes lighter

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Even though I’m not Jewish, I have a soft spot for Jewish cuisine. I learned to love matzo ball soup and knish when I waited tables at a deli in college, but my real Jewish-food obsession is latkes.

I love fried foods and think it’s pretty neat that they’re served during Hanukkah to celebrate the miraculous way that one day’s worth of consecrated olive oil kept the Jerusalem temple lamp burning for eight days. But all that frying doesn’t exactly make latkes low-cal. Luckily for my waistline, the EatingWell Test Kitchen has come up with ways to make our favorite fried foods taste delicious without a lot of extra fat, including these 3 healthier latke recipes. Find more delicious recipes for the Festival of Lights in our Hanukkah recipe collection.

10 tips to fit into your party dress

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I have a not-so-forgiving little black dress to get into for New Year's Eve. And in between now and then I have a cookie swap and a couple of holiday parties to attend. Forget twigs and berries: with that dress as my goal, these 10 tips should help me wear it happily.

What's your favorite holiday cookie? 5 new 100-calorie favorites

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When the gals in the Test Kitchen told me that these sweet and buttery thumbprint cookies were only 80 calories each (holy cow!) I got to thinking: would it be possible to fill an entire holiday cookie platter with beautiful, delicious AND low-calorie cookies? I did some digging around for my favorite healthy cookies and—ta da! I found these five amazingly delicious holiday cookies for the platter—all for 100 calories or less. Believe me: I’ve tasted every single one of these cookies and you would never know they’re low-cal! Now I don’t have to feel quite so guilty about my holiday cookie obsession.

350-calorie dinners to put the brakes on holiday weight gain

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With Christmas just a few weeks away and lots of parties on the calendar, I need to do something RIGHT NOW to keep my calories in check so I don't have to spend the beginning of the new year on a treadmill 24/7. I'm not going to starve myself, but I am going to work some quick and easy low calorie dinners into my menu, like these 5 main course recipes for 350 calories or less, to help combat holiday weight gain.

How safe is your chicken? 3 ways to eat safe

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I think that eating, or making choices about what to eat, is getting harder. Now before I take a bite, I consider where the food was grown and if the farmer used pesticides or hormones, among other concerns. Recently I’ve started to worry about food safety too. Just this week I read a new Consumer Reports article that found that two-thirds of the chickens they bought at the supermarket and tested had salmonella and/or campylobacter, the leading bacterial causes of foodborne illness. In light of this news, here are three things I’m going to make sure I do to keep

Add this ingredient to your lunch to help you shed pounds

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My husband and I are fairly active people, but we're always looking for more ways to shed a few pounds. (Who isn't, right?) So when I read that adding more fiber to your diet can help you lose weight, I started to think about where I could sneak in some extra fiber during the day. I came up with these delicious high-fiber lunches to bring to work.

Really? Chocolate cake for hot flashes?

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Feeling hot, hot, hot? When menopause is the cause, who wouldn't be up for trying a natural remedy? Research suggests that lignans, estrogen-like compounds, may help relieve hot flashes. Find out what food they're in and how much you need to eat.