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For Longest Night, I made stuffed mushroom appetizers. They're fatty, but far from nutritionally void. They're really good with dry sparkling cider (Trader Joe's has a nice brand that's cheaper than Martinelli's).

For 25 mushrooms:

1/2 pkg firm tofu, mashed
1/2 lb bacon, fried crisp & crumbled
2 bunches green onions
1c grated cheddar cheese
1c slivered almonds (chopped pecans are good too)
mayo
garlic powder

Mix it all up using just enough mayo to lightly coat & garlic powder to taste. Stuff mushrooms by twisting out the stems & packing a spoonful of tofu mixture into the cavity, rounding the top nicely. Bake 10 minutes at 425 and drain on paper briefly before serving.

For a vegetarian version, you could substitute some hearty seasoning blend & a little more tofu, or maybe some breadcrumbs, for the bacon.

Another idea might be to mix cottage cheese, egg, shredded mozzerella and/or parmesan, and some chopped frozen spinach, stuff the mushrooms with that & top each one with a dab of thick pasta sauce.

Scuse me, I hafta go raid the leftover stuffed mushrooms

I like veggies and dip too. Very easy on the cook and nice and crunchy for the eaters Whenever we have a party we have a veggie tray with carrots, celery, bell peppers and sugar snap peas. Sometimes I put out dip with them. Last party I was lazy and didn't put out anything and they still got 'et

we like to make little wraps two ways.. one: take a whole wheat wrap, spread hummus; sprinkle cut up green pepper and red pepper.. roll the whole thing up in a tight roll, and slice into little circles two: same as above, but use cream cheese with a little ranch dressing YUM... if you want it to be more festive, use spinach and sun dried tomato wraps.. red and green

Bruschetta!

fresh plain yoghurt with veggie soup dip from fantastic (natural dry soups) with carrot sticks and whatever else. It's yummy and, if you eat dairy and view dairy as healthy, very healthy

Ooh, Carol, I do something like that, only I use ham, cream cheese & a crunchy cucumber wedge Another way to do it would be to use a round cucumber slice, a dollop of cream cheese or ranch dressing, and a cube of ham with a toothpick. Or little cucumber-ham canape's, mmmm.

For that matter, cucumber sandwiches. Use a little mayo or herbed butter & slice those cukes thin.

Pizza (veggie or carnivorous) on whole wheat crust. If you don't fancy working with yeast dough, you can make up a batch of biscuit dough using whole wheat pastry flour instead of white.

Great, now I'm jonesin' for a cucumber-ham sandwich. We've got cold ham from dinner with the IL's today, but the produce stand with the really good cukes is closed

Oh how funny. I was totally going to say homemade Hummus w/ww pita, too!