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One Romantic Dinner That Won't Destroy Your Diet!

By: Lynn Grieger

Show your sweetheart how much you love him by serving pasta with a hearty tomato sauce topped with diced grilled chicken breast. Cooked tomatoes are an excellent source of lycopene, a phytochemical that helps protect the prostate. And the lean protein in the chicken will help keep you awake long into the night! Serve the pasta on one dish that you'll share. (Perhaps you'll even end up with the same strand of spaghetti!)



Dessert and romance
End your meal with a sexy -- and surprisingly healthy -- dessert of chocolate and strawberries. Strawberries are an excellent source of heart-healthy vitamin C, and recent research has shown the fat in chocolate may actually be good for our cardiovascular systems if enjoyed in small amounts. Remember, anything that's good for the heart and circulation is good for love (Viagra, the popular sexual dysfunction remedy, works by helping blood go to the right places). Gently warm chocolate sauce and take turns dipping fresh strawberries into the sauce using fondue forks -- or fingers! Or, arrange fresh strawberries into the shape of a heart, drizzle with warmed chocolate sauce, and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Take turns feeding each other bite after succulent bite.

The rest of the evening
Cuddle back up on the couch to sip an aromatic and stimulating coffee. The rest is up to you. After a light and romantic meal enjoyed with the one you love, who knows what will happen next?

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