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This year try turkey breast baked with rosemary and fresh lemon juice and gingerbread loaf

Start a new tradition this year by serving healthy holiday fare. It will not only save you calories and excess fat, but you will have a colourful and balanced dinner on your table and actually feel great afterward. Here are some ideas on how to sort through each component of your meal and how to choose wisely:

Read more: Eat this, not that! Healthiest choices for your holiday dinner

Christmas Cookie Exchanges (CCE) offer a great way to experience a potential vast number of other people’s great (or terrible) cookie recipes.

Here are some of FoodBozo CCE ground-rules:

• Don’t make low-fat or healthy cookies. Everyone hates these.
• Go for the recipes that are heavy with butter and high in sugar.
• Always include an extra or a bonus cookie. Your friends will appreciate this and may reciprocate at next year’s CCE.
• Seal the cookies so they stay fresh as long as possible.
• Be festive: People love getting decorated cookies for a CCE.
• Do not eat the cookies all at once. Set a consumption schedule and stick to it.
• Don’t be Grinch; make the cookies nice and big so your friends can enjoy them.

Some of FoodBozo’s cookies from once of the 2009 CCE