Buffet Dos and Don'ts

Do...
- Nibble on lowfat crudités like baby carrots dipped in salsa (8 calories, no fat per crudité).

- Enjoy healthful finger foods like grapes (10 grapes, 16 calories, no fat) or strawberries (36 calories, no fat).

- Choose healthy appetizers like 1/2 ounce smoked salmon on a multigrain cracker (4 small berries, 33 calories, .5 gram fat).

- Fill up on raw vegetables (1 cup of mushrooms, zucchini or red peppers has 15–24 calories and no fat).

- Head for the turkey-carving station (3.5 ounces has136 calories and 1 gram fat).

- Scoop up some wild rice (1/2 cup has 83 calories and no fat).

- Have a whole-wheat roll without butter (69 calories, 1 gram fat).

- Savor refreshing sorbet (1/2 cup has 100 calories and 1.5 grams fat).

- Indulge in a sliver (1/8 of a 9-inch pie) of pumpkin pie (300 calories and 14 grams fat). Hold the whipped cream.

- Munch on ginger snaps (about 30 calories and less than 1 gram fat each).

- Unwind with a cup of hot herbal tea, a relaxing nightcap with no calories or fat.