Herbed Rice Cake Snacks Recipe
Recipe
Ingredients
24 unsalted mini rice cakes
1/4 cup softened cream cheese
1/4 cup reduced-calorie sour cream
1 tsp dried minced onion
1/4 tsp dried tarragon leaves
1/4 tsp dried rosemary leaves
1/4 tsp dried oregano leaves
1/4 tsp garlic salt
1/8 tsp dried dill weed
Recipe
Preparation
Place rice cakes on baking sheet. Blend remaining ingredients; spread
evenly on rice cakes. Bake at 350 degrees for 3 to 5 minutes.
Each serving provides: * 122 calories * 3.3 g. protein * 6.4 g. fat *
13.2 g. carbohydrate * 183 mg. sodium * 16 mg. cholesterol
Source: Sport Sense - The Common Sense Approach to a Healthful
Lifestyle Reprinted with permission from The USA Rice Council
Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias
Servings:
4
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Food Tips of the Week
A few tips on healthy eating
If your aim is to lose weight and also enhance your all round well-being, among other things you really should follow a thoughtfully planned healthy-minded dietary regime. In a perfect world, this ought to include five helpings of grains and vegetables every day and take in the right proportion of nutrients.
Some lower carb diet tips:
* Make reduced carb breadcrumbs for deep fried or oven baked foods.
Although you may be able to buy low carb breadcrumbs, you may make them yourself by using low carb bread. All you have to do is simply toast the low carb bread in a pre-heated oven on a sheet of cookie paper. Once it is quite hard and crispy, process it in your food mill. To store, keep in an airtight container.
* Understand the food labels
Don't trust sales blurb that claims to be 'low carb' - check the nutritional information on the back of the can or package. Many are only marginally lower and in some cases still more than a competitors usual brand. In addition, beware of 'low sugar' and 'low fat' labels - 'low sugar' doesn't always mean 'low carb' - often the carbs are identically the same.
Foods containing allyl sulfides
( includes eschalot, onions and welsh onion)
The onion and garlic family of vegetables is rich in allyl sulfides, a chemical which experts believe could be linked to a reduced risk of stomach and colon cancer.
Although there is not enough, definitive proof present, allyl sulphides are also thought by many experts to reduce symptoms with colds, sterilization and insomnia.
Foods containing allyl sulfides are also low in calories, so should be a part of every diet system.
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