Keeping Your Diet on Track During the Holidays
Find special dishes that are healthy alternatives for holiday meals.
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Hanukkah
For the kids, the Festival of Lights is all about the presents, but for us adults, it seems to be all about the scrumptiously fried food (and of course, commemorating the Maccabean victory over Antiochus of Syria and how the Maccabees created a miracle and lit the menorah with a drop of oil that lasted for eight long nights). Today, we're a lot more nutritionally enlightened; we realize that fried foods aren't a good base for any meal, holiday or not. With a few minor adjustments to the traditional menu, you can take the healthy route, cutting 644 calories and your fat in half, and still get your potato latkes. (A Hanukkah without them would be sacrilegious, wouldn't it?)
Traditional Meal
- Chicken soup
- Brisket
- Potato latkes
- Applesauce
- Green salad with vinaigrette
- Jelly donuts
- Hanukkah gelt
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 2,038
- Total fat: 105 grams
- Saturated fat: 27 grams
- Cholesterol: 520 mg
- Sodium: 2,896 mg
- Dietary fiber: 8 grams
- Protein: 114 grams
Healthier Meal
- Chicken soup
- Roast chicken breast, no skin
- Potato latkes
- Applesauce
- Green salad with vinaigrette
- Fresh fruit salad
- Apple Streusel Pot Pie
Nutrition Information
- Calories: 1,393
- Total fat: 53 grams
- Saturated fat: 11 grams
- Cholesterol: 322 mg
- Sodium: 1,959 mg
- Dietary fiber: 13 grams
- Protein: 76 grams