Your Help Please

Okay guys.. what are your favorite post-bariatric, healthy type snacks that one could take to a holiday party??  

Here's a few ideas for starters... but I have more!  How about : Chicken Salad  Ham Salad Country Ham Salad  Egg Salad Above served in slices of hollowed out cukes Deviled Eggs w/some crab or salad shrimp mixed into the filling. Deviled Eggs topped with Smoked Oysters Chef Wendy's Hot Mama "Menta Cheese" Deviled Eggs Salmon Deviled Eggs Hummus Greek Black Bean Hummus Salsa Pimento Cheese (stuffed into Endive) Wendy's Layered Crab Spread (in Endive) Mexican Seafood ****tail Guacamole Cilantro Mousse Artichoke Dip Spinach Dip Spinach and Artichoke Dip Pine Nut Dip Mini Crab Cakes Cheese Crisps Chinese Chicken Wings Spiced Pecans Bloody Mary Black Eyed Pea Salad (that works as a dip w/chips too) Pork Tenderloin, cubed, marinated and cooked...and served with picks Meatballs in all kinds of "legal" sauces Antipasto kabobs... with cubes of cheese, meat, piece of fruit and pickled pepper and sprayed with Italian Dressing

Spinach Sausage Cheese "Wreath" with Hot Sausage Bow (this is great for a big crowd, but both spreads are good alone too) Plum Tomatoes Stuffed with Blue Cheese filling (or used sliced hollowed tomatoes to hold stuff like chicken/ham/egg salads Stuffed Mushrooms Marinated Brussels Sprouts Steamed asparagus wrapped w/prosciutto Roasted Spicy Edamame Shrimp... boiled, grilled, salad, etc. Chicken tenders cut into bit sizes with any number of dips (SF sweet sauces, mustards, etc)

I have recipes for any of these if anybody want... just post here to let me know. Cooking is my world as a personal chef and former hospital Dietary Coordinator, so if you need a recipe for anything, just holler.  I have thousands and thousands of recipes in my collection and hundreds of cookbooks.   I also have "Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery" and "Recipes for Life After WLS" cookbooks if you need any recipes from those books.

Wow..   The Spinach Sausage Cheese Wreath and Layered Crab Spread are catching my eye...   Oh yeah.. the Mexican Seafood ****tail and Cheese Crisps.   You blew my mind with so many choices!!  Thanks!!!!

Oh my goodness, Wendy!  You have me salivating!!!  Gotta go eat something for supper!  I will share CRASH, PART TROIS later!

Jenn- I was going to suggest shrimp ****tail or lil mini crabcakes. I make crab dip with no fat cream cheese, so it's loaded with protein and a crowd pleaser. You have some great choices. Sheila

I had found another recipe for crab/horseradish dip.. it could be modified to be lighter.  I am just looking for other options too.  I may do two dishes. 

I am in love with onion dip... so I have been craving veggie trays with onion dip... or even with veggie dip - heck maybe both dips.

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Have you ever bought the Laughing Cow French Onion flavored cheese?  It is to die for!!

Noooooo :-( I am a cheese addict and just cant have it in the house!!!! Maybe I will check it out to bring to a holiday party/pot luck so I can have a few little nibbles and everybody else can fini**** off!

This is a pretty holiday appetizer.  Make the spinach part and shape into a wreath.  Then, make the sausage recipe and shape like a bow on the wreath.  I line my "bow" with strips of pimento (in the little jars). I have a friend that LOVES the sausage part and asks me at Christmas (and other times of the year) to "Make me some of that sausage stuff," so in my cookbook, I called it Jeff's Sausage Stuff.  LOL You can adapt this using things like low fat cream cheese and sour cream, etc. to trim fat and calories. I'm not sure if the FF stuff will hold up, but I have made these using LF stuff.                       *  Exported from  MasterCook  *

                Spinach Cheese Wreath with Hot Sausage Bow

Amount   Measure      Ingredient -- Preparation Method --------  ------------  --------------------------------                         WREATH:    2      10 oz.        frozen chopped spinach -- thaw/drain    1      8 oz.         cream cheese -- softened    1      8 oz.         sour cream (or clam dip)    2      T.            fine chopped onion    1      T.            lemon juice           dash          garlic powder           dash          salt           dash          tabasco sauce                         BOW:    1      3 oz.         cream cheese    1      4 oz.         cream cheese w/chives      1/2  lb.           sausage (hot or mild) -- cook/crumble      1/4  c.            diced green bell pepper    1      t.              crushed red pepper -- opt. (or use hot sausage)    1      jar           sliced pimento strips                            crackers or veggie dippers

WREATH: In large skillet, over med-hi heat, cook spinach, stirring frequently until dry.  Cool.  In med. bowl, with electric mixer at med. speed, beat together remaining wreath ingredients.  Then beat in spinach.  On large serving tray, form a 10" ring, leaving space for bow.

BOW: In med. bowl, combine all ingredients.  Spoon into space and form into bow.  Line with sliced pimento.  Cover and chill about 3-4 hours.

Serve with crackers and/or veggie dippers.

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