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Delicious Living is a monthly magazine many American natural food groceries offer their customers for free.  The magazine, published by New Hope Natural Media, is more than the sum of its advertisers.  It almost always offers several good-for-you and good-tasting recipes.

The December issue focuses on baking a better, or more accurately, a healthier, holiday cookie.  From frozen chocolate peppermint sandwiches to gingerbread people to New Mexican bizcochitos to ginger-cranberry biscotti, Delicious Living offers an “enlightened” cookie for every taste.  Tasty tricks include substituting unsweetened applesauce and egg whites for some of the butter, using natural ingredients and adding “nutrient-boosting” ingredients sucah as dried fruit, nuts, pumpkin and dark chocolate. The article is also available on line and the recipes can be viewed here.

The holiday issue also kicks off Delicious Living’s special recipe contest.  Compete in the appetizer/side, entrée and/or dessert category and win a gift certificate and see your recipe published in the magazine’s June issue.  Click here for complete rules and regulations.  Entries must be postmarked by February 1, 2007.

Photo: Delicious Living