You can still throw a great party and serve great food while you’re on the diet or prefer healthy food. This how to make healthy party snacks will guide you to make fantastic food for appetizers, hors d’ouvers, tea time snacks, or picnics.

There are some general rules that can help you in preparing healthy party snacks. First of all is what your diet consist of? Do you still eat meat, or are you a vegetarian and vegan? Do you completely abstain from carbs? How about your friends? Do they like exotic food or comfort food? Serve several types of food that will satisfy different taste.

You can also adjust your snacks recipes to make them healthier than the original recipes, to help you cut down your calorie and sodium intake. Avoid frying your food, instead, boil, steam, bake, or grill your food.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-cooking/NU00201 Use organic products instead of regular ones.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255 Choose yogurt, skim milk, cottage cheese, crème fraiche, and low-fat or fat-free cheeses and sour cream for your dairy products.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-recipes/NU00585 Use olive oil, instead of butter or regular cooking oil in your recipe, because olive oil has more health benefits than butter and regular oil.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/AN01037

Try these healthy and tasty snacks and you won’t get complain from any of your friends about bland diet food ever again. Generally, healthy food tends to be more delicious when they are served immediately because they use fresh products although dips are more forgiving. For that reason, you should serve these snacks the day you prepare it.

‘’’Ingredient:’’’

• 2 pieces of lavash or pita bread
• 1/2 bottle organic tomato paste
• 2 small Japanese eggplants, thinly slicedhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/bobby-flay/grilled-lavash-pizza-with-spicy-hummus-grilled-eggplant-feta-red-chile-oil-and-mint-recipe/index.html, sliced
• 1 cup of cherry tomatoes, cut into 2.
• mixture of fresh basil, oregano, and parsleyhttp://www.notquitenigella.com/2008/02/17/pizza-party/
• 1 cup of feta cheese, crumbled
• few tbsp extra virgin olive oilhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-chiarello/grilled-eggplant-pizza-recipe/index.html
• salt and pepper, to taste

‘’’Directions:’’’

1. Spread tomato paste on top of the bread.
2. Arrange the eggplants, tomatoes, on top of the bread. Add the crumbled feta cheese. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with the seasonings.
3. Bake and grill the pizza for 15 – 20 minutes.
4. Cut the eggplant pizza into bite size pieces.

‘’’Ingredient:’’’

• 6 slices of whole wheat bread
• few tbsp of canola oil margarine
• 1 medium cucumbers
• 2 tbsp white vinegarhttp://www.streetdirectory.com/food_editorials/pastry/bread/how_to_make_cucumber_sandwich.html
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup low fat mayonnaise http://www.ifood.tv/recipe/cucumber_sandwiches_0

‘’’Directions:’’’

1. Slice the cucumber thinly and sprinkle with salt and white vinegar. Let it sit for about an hour.
2. Soften the margarine and spread it on the bread.
3. Arrange the cucumber slices neatly on top of the bread. Add the mayonnaise and top with another slice of bread.
4. Slice a cucumber sandwich into three fingers sandwich.

‘’’Ingredient:’’’

• 20 fresh shiitake mushrooms
• 2 skinless chicken breastshttp://www.ifood.tv/recipe/mushrooms_filled_with_chicken
• 1/2 cup of shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 1 spring onion, chopped
• 3 tbsp chopped water chestnuthttp://allrecipes.com/recipe/chinese-style-stuffed-mushrooms/Detail.aspx
• 1 white egg
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• a pinch of kosher salt
• ground black pepper

‘’’Directions:’’’

1. Remove the stems from the mushrooms. Wash and pat dry with paper towel.
2. Put the chicken breast and shrimp into the food processor and process until they are finely minced.
3. Mix the minced chicken breast and shrimp with water chestnut, spring onion, egg, sesame oil, pepper and kosher salt until they blend well together and make a moist mixture. If you use canned water chestnut, add the juice to the mixture when it’s too dry.
4. Fill each mushroom with about 1/2 tbsp of the meat, depending on the size of the mushrooms.
5. Steam the stuffed mushrooms in bamboo steamer or metal steamer.