Holiday Desserts For Your Diet

Holiday Desserts For Your Diet
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Pumpkin Fluff

This recipe, popular among Weight Watchers dieters, includes three main ingredients: Sugar Free butterscotch JELL-O pudding mix, 1 10-oz. can of pumpkin and sugar free whipped topping. Mix the first two ingredients, refrigerate for a few hours, then top with the whipped topping. This recipe can be adapted to make crustless pumpkin pie. Simply add cinnamon and nutmeg, to taste, and top with crushed graham crackers. Alternatively, you can purchase a low-fat graham cracker crust and fill with the “pumpkin fluff.” For added zest, serve pumpkin fluff in ornate dessert glasses.

Snickers Delight

Adapted from a popular Snickers Pie recipe, this recipe also includes three simple ingredients: 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, 1 cup of sugar free, fat free chocolate JELL-O pudding, and sugar free whipped topping. Mix together the first two ingredients, then top with the whipped topping.

Easy Cherry Cheesecake

This easy cherry cheesecake, adapted from this traditional recipe, is made from the following ingredients: Low-fat graham cracker crust, 8 oz. fat free cream cheese, 1 c. Splenda, 4 eggs, 2 tsp. vanilla, and 1 10-oz. can of sugar free cherry pie filling. To prepare, mix all ingredients but the cherry pie filling, pour into crust and level, then top with the cherry pie filling. Refrigerate for several hours.

You actually can take many of your holiday recipes and shave calories off of them by making a few food swaps. Swap out sugar for Splenda, butter for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray (in some cases), and toss the vegetable oil spray can for an olive oil spray can. it may take some trial and error before determining which food swaps work best. Some swaps may not suitable for your recipes.

Considerations

Swapping traditional desserts for those lower in calories doesn’t mean you’re eating healthier. These recipes are meant only to save you calories here and there as you are faced with holiday eating. Good practices of portion control and moderation should still be incorporated for a healthy eating lifestyle, even when it is the holidays.