1. Use your favorite preserves as a glaze for pork or chicken. Try a blend of apricot jam, curry powder, currants or raisins. (Side note: Prunes and/or apples make a wonderful stuffing for pork loin, rolled pork or stuffed pork chops.) Brush preserves on meat during the last 10 minutes of cooking.

2. Instead of tartar sauce with fish, try a spicy dipping sauce made with marmalade or peach jam and prepared hot or honey mustard.

3. When you run out of maple syrup, try warm raspberry or strawberry preserves with fresh berries stirred in. Great over pancakes or waffles.

4. Create a skinny dressing for your favorite fruit salad. Stir a half cup of low-fat yogurt into 1/4 cup of fruit preserves.

5. Spread pineapple jam or mixed-fruit jelly on squash halves, before baking.

6. For a quick jelly roll, layer slices of pound cake and any flavor fruit preserves. Strawberries, blackberries, raspberries are especially suited for jelly roll fillings.

7. Top hot cereal with peach or apricot preserves.

8. Give iced tea a fruit or mint flavor by stirring in 1 to 2 teaspoons lemon or orange marmalade, mango jam or guava paste.

9. Sweeten a grapefruit half with a few teaspoons of orange or apple jelly. Serve as is or broil.

10. For a quick coffeecake, spread plain, store-bought coffeecake with preserves. Sprinkle lightly with sugar. Slide under broiler until topping bubbles.

11. Top a serving of cottage cheese with a few spoonfuls of preserves or jam. Chunk pineapple is wonderful served over cottage cheese. Top a serving of ricotta cheese with grape jelly - a classic Italian combination for a simple dessert.

12. Stir in 1/4 cup of apricot, peach or pineapple preserves before serving cooked vegetables, like carrots or sweet potatoes.

13. To make a quick fruit relish, stir 1 cup grape jelly into 1/2 cup each of sweet orange marmalade and chopped walnuts. Serve with turkey or chicken.

14. For sweet and sour sauce, combine 1/2 cup of jelly, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce and 1/2 cup wine vinegar. Simmer 5 minutes, stirring constantly.