The Sweet Life with Chris Xaver

Food is equated with celebration

But for those trying to either watch their weight or their blood sugar celebrating with food is either “forbidden” or disappointing! Often times, sugar-free recipes are tasteless and lackluster. It doesn’t have to be that way! In fact, done right, eating well is a pleasure for both your taste buds and physique.

Chris’ recipes taste just like the foods we have either grown up loving, or learned to love in our favorite restaurants, but are made without all the sugar/carbs/excess fat, etc. And unless you kiss and tell, no one…not your friends or family…will know they’re eating healthier. They certainly won’t feel deprived!


The Sweet Life Episodes

News & Press


PRESS RELEASE...July 27, 2011

Shooting is underway on the second season of The Sweet Life, a unique national cooking and healthy lifestyle show featuring Chris Xaver, a local television and radio personality and department chair at Tompkins Cortland Community College.Read More


TC3 professor cooks up broadcasters
among her students...Aug. 16, 2011

Callen Golden was on her first television set when she fell in love with art direction.It was a love that she did not know was coming. Matter of fact, she didn't really know much about art direction, she said...Read More

Looking For Recipes...We've got em'

Sensational Starter Recipes

Sensational Starter Recipes
Filled with healthy recipes to whet your appetite and prime your taste buds for the main course.
Main Course Recipes

Fabulous Main Course Recipes
We take your favorite main fare recipes and make them healthier by swapping carbs, changing fats and rethinking the way we cook.
Delicious Dessert Recipes

Delicious Dessert Recipes
No meal is complete, in my world, without dessert. These recipes are deceptively decadent. Healthy. Yet tasty. There’s no reason you can’t have both.