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Holiday Season Snack Choices

You don’t have to stop snacking, but you can make better choices! Use this chart to help you make better snacking choices this holiday season:

Poor Choices	Better Choices
Cheese	Cream cheese
Salty crackers/pretzels	Unsalted/low sodium crackers/pretzels
Eggnog	Homemade (low phosphorus) eggnog
Pumpkin/pumpkin pie	Apple/berry pie
Milk	Rice milk (non-enriched)
Ham	Roast beef or fish
Colas	Clear sodas
Chocolate	Hard candy
Stuffing from box mix	Homemade stuffing (control sodium)
Potatoes/sweet potatoes	Soaked (“dialyzed”) potatoes
Canned gravy	Homemade gravy
Sautéed greens/tomatoes	Green beans
Ice cream	Angel food cake/pound cake/sherbet
Beer	Lemonade
Dried fruit	Fresh low potassium fruits
Winter squash	Cauliflower

Holiday Snack Mix

One serving = ¾ cup, makes about 8 cups

Nutritional analysis

• Calories 138
• Protein 2 gm
• Carbohydrate 16 gm
• Sodium 72 mg
• Potassium 65 mg
• Calcium 8 mg
• Phosphorus 32 mg

Ingredients

• 2 cups puffed rice cereal
• 2 cups puffed wheat cereal
• 2 cups mini shredded wheat cereal
• 1 cup unsalted mini pretzels
• 1 cup unsalted air-popped popcorn
• ½ cup soft tub margarine
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp onion powder
• ½ tsp chili powder
• ¼ tsp Tabasco sauce
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
2. Melt margarine in microwave or saucepan and add seasonings.
3. Mix cereals, popcorn and pretzels together in mixing bowl.
4. Pour margarine mixture over cereal mix and toss.
5. Spread onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 45 minutes.

Recommended for

• Hemo, PD, Diabetic

Count as 1 starch and 1 fat serving

Source: Adapted from “Everyday Eating,” Illinois CRN