The Party Diet
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If you're heading to a party, replace your daily snack and dessert with one of these treats, which are about 300 calories each:
- 6 melba toasts topped with 2 teaspoons caviar and chopped egg
- 15 tortilla chips and about 1/2 cup guacamole
- 10 potato chips and about 1/3 cup sour cream and onion dip
- 4 pigs in a blanket
- 6 chicken fingers
- 2 ounces Brie and 6 crackers
- 3 small crab cakes
- 2 ounces pate on 4 toast points
- 6 antipasto hors d'oeuvres made with 1 slice pepperoni, 1 olive, and a small cube (about 1/4 ounce) of part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 1 serving (about 3 1/2 ounces) gingerbread
- 3 homemade chocolate chip cookies
- 1 piece carrot cake with icing
- 4 large strawberries dipped in dark chocolate
- 7 small (2-inch) sugar cookies
- 2 1/2 ounces fudge
- 6 ounces eggnog (alcoholic)
- 2 martini cocktails (2 1/2 ounces each)
- 2 glasses red wine (5 ounces each)
- Two 12-ounce beers
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Originally published in FITNESS magazine, December 2006.
