Holiday Meal Planning Helpful Hints from Usda

It's the season for holiday parties, leftovers and makeovers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has advice on making this time of year a bit easier and healthier. This is a time in which you want to enjoy friends, you want to enjoy families, you want to be healthy, you want to do the things that are going to be as stress free as they possibly can, so that you yourself can be happy this holiday. And USDA's choose my plate dot gov website has advice on meal planning with healthy, low fat and low sodium recipes. Choose my plate dot gov does give you a supertracker tool that's let's you put in the information that you have, on what you're going to serve. It will tell you what the nutrient values are and then you can make some decisions as do i want to do this or do i want to do that? And when the parties are over, you can also find advice on how to use that extra food. How to make the meal stretch beyond just that one day. How do you use leftovers? What is the opportunity to do makeovers with some of the leftovers that you have? It provides a wealth of information for makeovers, and also for extending those meals that you have into another week or two. For advice on meal planning and other health tips go to choose my plate dot gov. In Washington D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I'm Bob Ellison.