HOLIDAY FOODS

We all look forward to home cooked holiday food, right?  There are healthy holiday foods and some that are lethal.  Those casseroles are so easy to feed a crowd.  But, beware of the ones that have prepared or canned ingredients if you need to watch salt or cholesterol.  The condensed soups have enough salt to threaten whatever you are trying to prevent.  They do make dishes more tasty, but most of us should limit our intake.

For dessert, make your own pie crust for fruit desserts and you can save on some ingredients you can do without.  (Read your labels.)  Same goes for pumpkin.  I usually make pumpkin from a fresh one.  That is time consuming; so I usually process and cook pumpkin a week before and refrigerate for however many pies I want.  Canned pumpkin makes a delicious pie, but has more calories and fat then the ones I make.

Happy Thanksgiving,
Joyduf

NEW GROUP REPORT We now have 11 members who want to take control of their bodies for healthy living and loose weight if they need to. Some cannot do the exercises yet,but have instructions for strengthening areas necessary to accomplish these. We are doing middle body exercises first since this is the most dangerous area for carrying excess fat. All particpates are middle age so far and I hope to enroll some younger folks when we start a night group. Preventive health is so....important for younger adults. Who wants to leave their young children minus a parent! Some of the fattest people I know have young children. Anyone can join this group. So far, I have 10 women and one man. To your good health, Joyduf