If you're trying to eat low fat at Thanksgiving, here are six quick and easy last-minute tips to make your holiday meal a healthier one.

It's good to have some creamy, moist side dishes to go with our Thanksgiving turkey, but all too often such side dishes are loaded with fat and calories, thanks to unhealthy doses of butter and cream. It needn't be that way. Here's a creamy-textured side dish of puréed carrots and butternut squash with no added fat.

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Panic! You're going to be a guest someone else's Thanksgiving table, where food will be abundant and temptation looms large. You don't want to be rude and turn your nose up at a wonderful spread. How can you be true to your low-fat way of eating and still enjoy yourself at the holiday table? I have some tips to help.

• How to Enjoy a Low-Fat Thanksgiving Away From Home

Are you having dessert this Thanksgiving? Most of us are. But what should you choose: pumpkin pie or pecan pie? Obviously pie isn't a low-fat, low-calorie dessert, but one of these pies has a nutritional advantage over the other (click on the link and see). But if you're still looking for ways to eat a lower-fat Thanksgiving dessert, you could try a Crustless Pumpkin Pie (pictured), a Low-Fat Pumpkin Pie that uses phyllo dough for the crust, or a Pear-Cranberry Strudel.

If pie isn't your thing, try one of these seasonal alternatives:

• Poached Pears
• Baked Pears With Cranberries and Walnuts
• Baked Apples

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