Give yourself or your loved ones a favorite healthy alternative to candy.
If you smoke, quit smoking. It's a perfect gift for yourself and others.
Send a health-e-card to show someone you care about them and their health.
Rather than tempting your beloved with chocolates, consider a gift that has more permanence.
Prepare a romantic candlelit dinner at home that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables and foods low in saturated fat and salt.
Still craving something sweet? Here are some options that will still give you the Valentine's Day feeling without the abundance of fat, sugar and calories.
Kabobs: place strawberries, cherries, raspberries and apples on skewers and serve with melted dark chocolate for dipping- Two berries dipped in dark chocolate are approx. 73 calories
Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate- 22 pieces are approx. 79 calories
White Hot Chocolate- made with 1/2 tablespoon Ghirardelli Sweet ground White Chocolate Powder with 1/2 cup skim milk and a dash of cinnamon - approx. 68 calories
Godiva Passion Fruit Truffle- approx. 68 calories
Valentine's Lace Cookie- from Flour Pot Cookies- approx..79 calories
Mini chocolate fondue-1/3 ounce melted dark chocolate chips with 10 miniature marshmallows- approx..69 calories
Raspberries stuffed with one chocolate chip
Pudding cups: mix fat-free vanilla pudding with strawberries and raspberries
Fruit bars: freeze blended strawberries and bananas on Popsicle stick
Smoothie: blend raspberries, strawberries and low-fat yogurt
For those of us that simply cannot resist, try a dark chocolate with 80 -90 percent cacao or a box of healthy organic dark chocolates from Sweetriot- order their Dark Chocolate Valentine's Gift Set.
