Buffet Dos and Don'ts

Don't...
- Snack on fattening chips and dip (about 175 calories and 12 grams fat per 1 ounce of chips and 1 tablespoon of dip).

- Load up on greasy finger foods like buffalo wings (160 calories, 11 grams fat each).

- Top a Town House cracker with a chunk of Cheddar cheese (1 cracker, 18 calories and 1 gram fat; 1 ounce Cheddar, 100 calories and 9 grams fat).

- Get creamed on creamed spinach (1/2 cup has 169 calories and 13 grams fat).

- Head for the prime rib-carving station (3 ounces has 300 calories and 24 grams fat).

- Get stuffed on stuffing (1/2 cup has 179 calories and 9 grams fat).

- Wolf down two mini croissants (130 calories, 8 grams fat each).

- Go for Häagen-Dazs ice cream (1/2 cup has 250 calories and 20 grams fat).

- Indulge in a slice (1/5 of an 8-inch pie) of pecan pie (520 calories and 23 grams fat).

- Chow down on a pecan shortbread cookie (76 calories and 5 grams fat each).

- Nod off with a brandy Alexander (130 calories per 11/2-ounce jigger).