This morning I woke up from another food coma. There has been good holiday eats around here causing various members of my family to sleep late and stay in their pajamas until 2pm for the last three days. One of those people may or may not have been me.
There is more celebrating to be done and plenty of good food to be had before the new year begins. The problem is if I keep eating lasagna, cookies and rib roast, I will be looking a little bit like the big man in the red suit. While I just can’t just start my full healthy regiment yet, I can make a few lightened up appetizers for my next gathering. If I take a quick trip to the gym or get in a slow jog around the block, I’ll feel much better too.
It’s not hard to have some healthy munchies on your table. I’ll start my new year’s eve celebration with my lightened up smoked salmon appetizer made with Wasa crispbreads. I love Wasa crackers because they are delicious and made with whole grains. The crisp and light 7 grain crackerbreads have 70 calories in three huge crackers. There are plenty of healthier choices to put on them and here are a few to start with:
Marinated Mixed Mushroom Salad
To help you stay on track after the new year, Wasa is offering a $25 Gift Card and two boxes of Wasa Crispbread to one of my readers.
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- 4 ounces light cream cheese, room temperature
- 12 Wasa Crisp n Light crackers, broken or cut in half
- 24 slices cucumber, very thinly sliced
- 4 ounces thinly sliced smoked salmon, cut into 24 pieces
- dried dill or fresh chopped dill for garnish
- Spread the cream cheese on each cracker.
- Top each with a slice of salmon.
- Garnish with the dill.
****For full disclosure, Wasa provided me with crackers to try and a gift card to purchase other ingredients for my recipe. As usual all opinions are my own.
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These Smoked Salmon Appetizers would be perfect for New Years’ Eve! Thanks for including my Skinny Spinach Dip – just served a version of this with artichoke hearts for our Christmas Eve Open House and everyone loved it (I didn’t even tell them it was the “skinny” version
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The Lightened Up Smoked Salmon Appetizer sounds easy and yummy!
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These look so good. I’ve still got a little salmon left in the fridge from Christmas brunch and this looks like a healthy way to use it up so I can eat a big piece of that caramel flan that sits next to it. Happy holidays Lisa!
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What a picture perfect appetizer! And it doesn’t hurt that it’s not calorie laden like what I’ve also been eating all week :/ Happy New Year, my friend!!!!
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This looks really great. I mean to pickup some smoked salmon for our treat nite and forgot.
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