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Yes. Here is a great recipe for low calorie mashed potatoes and low calorie mashed sweet potatoes with less than 5 ingredients. Delicious, low calorie, and easy to make!! :) Enjoy!

I love toasted english muffins. I like to make pizza on them with turkey pepperoni, or I like to drizzle olive oil on them or just cheese. They are also great with hummus, or eggs on them as well. Yum! Posting this made me hungry. :)

I love this recipe for low calorie carrot soup. Since carrots are so dense, you don't even need cream. It is totally delicious.

I also really like amy's low sodium soups for times when I don't have time to cook!

I'm going to answer this from a vegetarian point of view, as there are clearly tons of meat substitutes. :) You can eat Tofurkey (which you can buy at Whole Foods) which is decent if you want to feel like you are eating turkey like everyone else, or you can skip the meat part of the meal all together. There are plenty of other delicious things to eat at Thanksgiving and if you skip the turkey, you can still enjoy all the rest...

I saw it on Oprah. At first I was disgusted but then I started to understand it a bit better. I'm not about to "jump in" but I am more aware now of how much food is wasted by our society.

I start with fat free Fage Yogurt of course! Sounds like a lot of people do. :)

Things I put in it (not all at once!) include: low calorie cereal, low calorie trail mix, honey, frozen cherries, blueberries, or frozen bananas, maple syrup, a Trader Joe's chocolate wedge, cocoa nibs, nuts, nutmeg or cinnamon.

We eat tons of carrot soup. I sometimes add cream and sometimes I don't. The carrots are so thick that the soup is naturally creamy. I like to toast pita and dip it in the soup. Yum! Now I know what I want for dinner! :)

Casual or Expensive? Dinner or Lunch?

A few of my favorites:
Amber India (Mountain View -- best Indian around)
Joanie's Cafe on California Ave.
Zibbibo in downtown PA
Evvia in downtown PA
Pasta? in downtown PA and downtown MV

Enjoy!!

"It is all about calories in vs. calories out." I've tried many ways to approach my dieting by using this formula, but it is so much more complicated in that. How many times, for instance, have I gone to the gym 5 days a week, only to come home starving, and see the scale not move an inch. Dieting and being healthy is really about finding a lifestyle that works for you. When I say lifestyle, I mean one where you don't feel the need to overeat (you aren't stressed, you don't rely on food for anything beyond fuel), you love exercise, and you nourish yourself with foods that make you feel good and full.

Elizabeth (from yummydietfood.com)

You are so lucky! Please let us know how good the food is and how much you enjoyed it (and whether you think it was worth the trouble/money).

I tried to post this link earlier but it looks like it got taken down.

http://www.yummydietfood.com

It is my blog on low calorie food. All of the foods I blog about are healthy -- no high fructose corn syrup, no hydrogenated ingredients. And, most have all natural/organic ingredients. So, low calorie, healthy, food ideas. I've featured fage yogurt, kashi cereal, frozen cherries, and all natural/organic frozen meals. Please let me know if you find the site helpful.