Do you have a favorite holiday cookie recipe? Give it a healthy make-over and submit it to EatingWell for their 6th Annual Holiday Cookie Contest. Here are the guidelines:
- Replace as much of the all-purpose flour as possible with other whole grains, such as whole-wheat flour, white whole-wheat flour or oats.
- EatingWell recipes do not use margarine or other partially hydrogenated oils.
- We recommend limiting butter to about 1/2 teaspoon per cookie. You can reduce the amount of saturated fat in the recipe by substituting canola or nut oils for some of the butter in the original recipe.
- Limit salt in recipes to 1/2 teaspoon or less per batch.
- Use all sweeteners (white and brown sugar, honey, etc.) judiciously; less is better.
- Steer away from ingredients containing artificial color or flavor. (Use natural versions whenever possible.)
The grand-prize for the contest is a $2000 shopping spree from cooking.com plus a year's worth of dairy products from Organic Valley (over $700 value). Five runners up each will receive a $200 gift certificate from cooking.com.
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