Vegetables boring without a lot of melted butter or oil?
Try cooking them in broth and adding fresh herbs like dill or basil. Squeeze a little lemon right before serving.

Forgot to eat the fruit in the fridge or in the fruit bowl?
Make smoothies out of over-ripe bananas, peaches or strawberries. Wondering what to do with your lunch and dinner leftovers? Soup is a wonderful repository for leftover cooked veggies, meat, or sauce. Start with a good canned stock and add the leftover carrots, stringbeans, peas, tomatoes, potato, pasta, and bits of chicken, ham or beef. Throw in some herbs, perhaps a splash of wine, and you have a new dish you can prepare in a snap.

Too rushed to make a cooked breakfast?
Try soaking thick slices of bread in a mixture of beaten egg, milk, vanilla extract and dash of nutmeg overnight. The next morning, cook the bread in a heavy skillet sprayed with a non-stick spray. It will be ready before your coffee has dripped. When brown on both sides; sprinkle with some powdered sugar or maple syrup and enjoy.

Does eliminating rich sauces or butter make food taste dull?
Try seasoning foods with the herbs and spices used by cultures that do not add butter, cream or cheese to their foods: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, Central and South American are some examples. You can pick up spices and seasoning in the specialty foods section of your local supermarket.