Berries With Orange-Honey Yogurt Recipe
Recipe
Ingredients
4 cup fruit, see suggestions
1 garnish
1 fresh mint leaves or
1 thin strips orange rind or
1 tbsp toasted sliced/sliv. almonds
1 sauce
1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
1 tsp grated orange rind
1 tbsp orange juice
2 tbsp liquid honey (caution diab)*
1/2 tsp vanilla or almond extract
Recipe
Preparation
Suggested fruit: Winter: sliced oranges, bananas, kiwi, pineapple,
cantaloupe or honeydew Spring: strawberries, stewed rhubarb Summer:
raspberries, blackberries, blueberries Fall: peaches, plums, grapes
Combinations: grapes & melon, melon & blueberries, blackberries &
sliced peaches, raspberries & blueberries, strawberries & kiwi,
bananas & kiwi or sliced oranges.
*Diabetic caution: honey has more carbohydrates than sugar. Quantity
of honey could likely be reduced. Recipes in this book tend to be
sweeter than necessary for a person used to low-sugar recipes.
Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl. Wash berries & hull. Slice if fruit
pieces are large.
Either mix fruit with sauce, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour, or at
serving time spoon fruit into individual bowls or stemmed glasses and
pour sauce over. Garnish each serving.
1/4 recipe = 126 calories, 2 fruit + 1/2 milk choice 3 grams fat, 4 mg
cholesterol, 43 mg sodium, 5 grams protein, 24 grams carbohydrate,
good fiber.
Adapted from The Lighthearted Cookbook by Anne Lindsay 1988 Shared
but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, March 94
Servings:
4
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Food Tips of the Week
Diet hints and tips
In deciding on a diet, it is essential to attempt to lower your consumption of fat, salt and refined carbohydrates.
Some reduced carb diet pointers:
* Use splenda instead of sugar.
Many recipes that need sugar can be changed to make use of a sugar replacement instead. It is not exactly the same so you will need to do a bit of trial and error and it might not work for every dish, but it does a decent job most of the time.
The brassicas, Healthy superfoods that aid Weight loss
(includes Kale, Lettuce, Mustard greens and Rutabaga)
Altthough not always popular with children, these vegetables are jam-packed with vitamins (including vitamin c and folate), minerals (selenium and potassium, for example), fibre, chlorophyll, antioxidents, isothiocyanates, and indole-3-carbinol.
Over and above their numerous other beneficial effects, the isothiocyanates in these are thought by experts to significantly lower the risk of getting cancer.
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