Whether at the office or a friend’s house, potluck parties abound during the holiday season and that can make managing your weight a little trickier than usual. One of the best strategies for surviving the buffet table is to offer to bring a dish. That way you’ll have at least one go-to option among the spread. Here are a few of my favorite better-for-you potluck party dishes:

• Create a pretty veggie platter by arranging a festive pattern of red and green rows around a bowl of Open Nature Roasted Red Pepper hummus: slices of red bell peppers, blanched green beans or broccoli, cherry tomatoes and sugar snap peas. In a time crunch? Just grab an Eating Right Veggie Party Platter from our produce aisle.

• Make fun fruit kabobs: thread strawberries, grapes, orange segments and pineapple chunks onto wooden skewers. For a fun display, insert the skewers into a piece of foam set inside a decorative bowl. Serve with a bowl of low fat strawberry yogurt for dipping, if you’d like.

• Toss together a winter salad of baby spinach leaves, dried cranberries, chopped apples and toasted walnuts, drizzled with light vinaigrette dressing.

• Grab a bag of Waterfront Bistro tail-on cooked shrimp and defrost. Serve with a dish of zesty cocktail sauce for dipping. Always a party favorite!

• Mix things up with a corn and black bean salad: toss together defrosted frozen corn, a can of black beans (rinsed and drained), a can of Mexican-style diced tomatoes (with juice), diced avocado, finely-diced red bell pepper and onion, lime juice, cumin and chopped cilantro.

• Roast winter veggies for a side dish that’s sure to be devoured!

What favorite dish do you bring to potlucks?