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Quick Low-Fat Tips for Thanksgiving

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Here are six quick and easy ways to cut fat from your Thanksgiving feast:
  1. Remove skin from turkey before eating

  2. Make gravy from de-fatted drippings. Allow the fat to rise to the top, then skim. If time allows, cool the drippings, which makes the task of skimming much easier

  3. Replace the butter often called for in stuffing recipes with fat-free broth. If your stuffing calls for sausage meat, use chicken sausage instead of pork.

  4. Make skinny mashed potatoes by replacing butter and heavy cream with one of the following: fat-free broth, fat-free half and half, low-fat milk or low-fat buttermilk.

  5. Use reduced-fat, low-sodium mushroom soup in your green bean casserole, and use cooking spray to saute the onions

  6. Make your pies with low-fat phyllo dough as the base, and use thick nonfat Greek yogurt spiked with a little cinnamon instead of cream.

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