Sugarless Fruit Nut Muffins Recipe
Recipe Ingredients
1 cup chopped dates
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped prunes
1 cup water
1/2 cup margarine, cut into pats
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp vanilla, extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Recipe Preparation
In a saucepan, combine dates, raisins, prunes, and water. Bring to a
boil and boil 5 minutes. Stir in margarine and salt. Set aside to
cool. Add remaining ingredients to fruit; stir just until dry
ingredients are moistened. Spoon into greased mini-muffin pans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes (if desired, bake in a 11" x 7" x
2" baking pan for 30 minutes). Yield:
32 muffins
Diabetic Exchanges: One mini-muffin equals, 1/2 fruit, 1 fat, 1/2
starch; also 94 calories, 52 mg sodium, 14 mg cholesterol, 12 gm
carbohydrate, 2 gm protein, 4 gm fat.
SOURCE: Fern Albertson, Spokane, WA Country Woman Magazine Sept/Oct
92
Servings: 6
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* Use reduced carbohydrate chocolate for cookies and muffins. If you have converted your best loved chocolate chip cookie or chocolate muffins recipe using soya flour, you really shouldn't add in those high carbohydrate full-sugar chocolate. Chop up a reduced carbohydrate choccie bar into small pieces and use that in its place.
Flavonoid rich foods
(inlcudes citrus fruits, asparagus, garden pea & basil)
The compounds known as flavonoids discovered in these natural foods are thought by nutritionalists to have properties in preventing cancer.
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