Yield: 6 servings Exchanges: 2 Medium-Fat Meat, 2 Vegetable Ingredients: 1 pound ground chuck 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/2 cup skim milk 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg, lightly beaten Vegetable cooking spray 1/2 cup chopped green pepper 3 tablespoons chopped onion 1 1/2 cups tomato juice 3/4 cup sliced fresh mushrooms [...]
Here are the calories, fat, and carbohydrate counts for 3 tablespoons ( standard restaurant serving) of a few popular salad dressings. Blue Cheese: 231 calories, 24 g fat, 3 g carbs Caesar: 233 calories, 25 g fat, 2 g carbs Ranch: 222 calories, 23 g fat, 2 g carbs Thousand Island: 177 calories, 17 g [...]
Most of us don’t know that eating just three meals per week at a fast food restaurant was associated with increase in body weight. Read these tips that will surely help with your diet. Know what you are going to order in advance. Almost every fast-food restaurant has their nutrition information on the Web or [...]
Yield: 6 Servings Exchanges: 2 Lean Meat, 1 Vegetable Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 medium onion, thinly sliced 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery 1 pound medium-size fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined 6 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic 1 cup shredded fresh spinach 4 ounces frozen peas, thawed 1 teaspoon cornstarch 1/2 [...]
Yield: 5 servings ( 2 pancakes each) Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes These pancakes are made with rice bran, which has cholesterol-lowering properties similar to those of oat bran. Serves topped with Strawberries in Orange Flavor (refer to the site). Ingredients: 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour 3/4 cup rice bran 1 tablespoon [...]
Yield: 5 servings Ingredients: 3 envelopes unflavored gelatin 1 (12-ounce) can unsweetened frozen apple juice concentrate, diluted with 1 can water 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 5 cups peeled, sliced apple 1 tablespoon reduced-calorie margarine Procedure: Combine gelatin, apple concentrate, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg in a large skillet, stirring well. Let [...]
Buying ten kinds of ice cream to find one that you really like may at first sound to you like a waste of money rather than a bargain, but it’s really important that your bargains be foods that you like, and there’s no way of knowing that until you’ve tasted them. If a client had [...]
All crash diets begin with a claim as to why the plan works: more protein, less protein, all the bacon you want, all the cabbage you want, more fruit, no fruit, only fruit before noon – whatever. But the real secret behind all these diets is not the special combinations of foods or the magical [...]
Yield: 12 small muffins or 6 large muffins (2 small muffins or 1 large muffin each). Preparation Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 35 minutes Fresh or frozen whole cranberries and oats are the featured ingredients in these wholesome muffins. Pureed prunes are substituted for fat in this recipe. Serve with Apple-Carrot Pick-Me-Ups (refer to the [...]
Yield: 4 cups (141 calories and 2% fat per 2/3 cup serving) Ingredients: 1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind 1 1/4 cups plain nonfat yogurt 1/4 cup skim milk Procedure: Combine first 3 ingredients in container of an electric blender or food processor; top with cover, and process [...]
