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Spanish Garbanzo Beans Recipe

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Spanish Garbanzo Beans
1/2 cup chopped onions
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
8 oz tomato sauce
1 1/4 cups cooked garbanzo beans


Saut‚ onions and pepper in olive oil. Add tomato sauce. Cook over medium
heat for 5 minutes.

Add garbanzo beans. Cook over low heat for 15 minutes.

Exchanges: All lunch menus this week have about 450 calories total and
include:

2-3 Starch servings 1-2 Meat or Meat Substitute servings 0-2 Vegetable
servings 1 Fruit serving 1 Fat serving

Total Fat -- 15g Total Carbohydrate -- 50g Protein -- 22g

Some menus have 1 Skim Milk serving instead of 1 Meat or 1 Starch serving.
Or 1 Starch serving instead of the Fruit serving.

Recipe for Saturday, 3/7/98 This week we are featuring complete lunch
menus and accompanying recipes from the cookbook Magic Menus for People
with Diabetes, a calorie-controlled collection of the "best of" the
award-winning Month of Meals series of menu planners. You can order a copy
of this and many other cookbooks from our online bookstore or call
1-800-ADA-ORDER (1-800-232-6733).

Lunch: 1 cup Spanish Garbanzo Beans 1/2 cup sliced cucumbers in red wine
vinegar 1/2 cup grapes

Copyright © 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC Fortmatted and MC Busted by Barb at PK
 


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