As the weather gets colder, many of us start reaching for comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, hot chocolate with mini-marshmellows, and hot apple pie. If these sound good to you but you want to avoid adding any extra inches to your waistline, don’t miss Comfort Food Makeovers from the latest issue of Family Circle. This article offers up some healthier and lower-fat versions of traditional comfort foods, like using heart-healthy dark chocolate chips in that next batch of cookies or adding shredded carrots and zucchini to those burger patties.

There’s also simple and helpful little tips like switching to a multi-grain pasta for a healthier bowl of macaroni and cheese and swapping out the ground beef on burgers to leaner turkey. I can personally attest to that last tip, we’ve been eating turkey burgers in my family for awhile now and I don’t miss the beef in my burger at all.

If you’re looking for some healthier ways to prepare those comfort foods that your family just can’t live without, you should definitely give Comfort Food Makeovers a read. Just click on the image below for your free preview on Coverleaf.com.

Look Inside >> November 2008