Post-Christmas eats

Good eating on Christmas usually includes heavy mashed potatoes, thick gravy, and a dark-meated Turkey/goose. That, plus the hot chocolate, the candy, the gingerbread house, and all those lovely sugary treats that you generally eat too much of if you're anything at all like me. Plus, if you have a family like mine, you'll probably have some sinful meal for New Year's Eve as well - the tradition here is to time warp back in time to the fondue pot. With all this lovely food, nutrients can tend to be a bit scarce, what with all these potatoes and gravy and not a nice raw vegitable in sight.

So what's a health conscious teen to do - one who loves all the delectibley sweet sugary things but has loved them a bit too much (if that's possible - my stomach is telling me that it is...)?

My answer: Salads. Light ones. Nicely stacked to the roof with left over herbs and spices. Honestly, who doesn't love a good sweet-sour-warm-crunch-aromatic-slurpy salad? Asperigus, carrots, goose, apples and noodles are the star of my show.

Salads a probably the best way to aquire lost nutrients. Better than any of those "one a day" tablets that taste awful. Try using left over ingrediants that need to be used up, and do it with some class and originality. Yum yum!