Make healthy appetisers to prevent weight gain

Appetisers can be loaded with calories and unhealthy or fattening ingredients, so be cautious about which products you include.

Opt for more vegetables

Use more vegetables when creating appetisers. For example, peppers are usually available in several different colours and can offer great flavour as a part of an appetiser. Include a large plate of raw vegetable pieces sprinkled with lemon juice, for those wanting to eat something healthy. Use a rainbow of radishes, baby tomatoes or tomato wedges, sweet peppers, baby corn, carrot, celery, snap peas, cucumber. You could decorate it with nasturtium or herb flowers

Fruit platter

A great option would be to include a platter of fresh fruit as an appetiser. You could perhaps try including chunks of pineapple, watermelon and spanspek, slices of kiwi, apricot and peach, cherries, berries and grapes or other fruit on mini skewers. Play around with the textures, flavours and colours to decide which combinations work for you.

Use lean meats

If you must use meat in your appetisers, then make sure it is lean – no matter how small the portion size. Meat can be cubed to help reduce portion size.

When effort is made, appetisers can be healthy and nutritious and prevent you from gaining unnecessary weight, when hosting parties.

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