If your New Years Resolutions included starting a diet or eating healthier, now is the time to organize your recipe box. Look for healthier dishes to prepare this year. Clean out and reorganize the fridge. Organize your pantry, checking the sell by dates. Dispose of seasonal items that will not get used. Stock up on ingredients for your revamped healthier meals, to help you stick with the plan.
It is hard to eat healthy foods when there are so many comfort foods out there to tempt you. Some foods are favorites that we simply cannot give up, so why not put a healthy spin on them. French Fries are one of those foods.
Instead of deep frying them, cut the potato into either wedges (for steak fries) or thinly, (for regular fries), toss them in extra virgin olive oil and season with lemon pepper and cook them in the oven on 375/400 until they are golden and sizzling. 
Mashed Potato - try half potato, half parsnips for a sweet alternative. Use a little milk instead of lashing of butter when mashing them.
Chili - use ground turkey instead of ground beef.
Spaghetti and Meatballs - Use spaghetti squash and turkey meatballs.
Oven bake your fish, instead of frying. Using a mixture of mayo and dijon mustard, spread a thin layer over a tilapia loin and press into panko bread crumbs, turn over and repeat on the other side. Bake in the oven at 350 for 15-20 minutes.
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