Article: Forget cream cheese and sour cream -- lighten up those bowls of dip

A bowl of dip surrounded with chips and veggie sticks solves a lot of life's entertainment problems: table centerpiece (this is it), meal-not-ready-yet (eat this for now), utensils (don't need 'em).

Make dips part of every day, though, and you've solved some daily nutritional problems as well. There's something quick to eat in the refrigerator at snack time, for one. You can sneak vegetables into the kids (or yourself), for another.

The hot days of summer, with the corresponding increase in snacking, picnicking and outdoor entertaining, are a perfect time to rediscover dips.

This means going beyond onion soup mix poured into a tub of sour cream. Think outside the box. Or the tub.

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