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Fresh Fruit Medley Recipe

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Fresh Fruit Medley
1 small Apple, peeled and diced
12 medium Size bananas, sliced
1 small Orange, sectioned
1/2 cup Seedless grapes
1 tbsp Frozen orange juice
-concentrate
1/4 cup Low-fat yogurt
2 tbsp Part-skin ricotta cheese:
1/8 tsp Ground ginger
1/8 tsp Ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
1/2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
4 Walnut halves


Place all fruit in a bowl and mix in frozen orange juice concentrate.
In a blender, combine yogurt, ricotta, ginger, cinnamon and vanilla.
Portion the friut into dessert bowls, top each with yogurt-ricotta
sauce and garnish with a walnut half.

Other fruits may be substituted, such as melon, kiwifruit,
strawberries, blueberries, pears, or pineapple. The fruit medley may
also be served without topping. Food Exchange per serving: 1 FRUIT
EXCHANGE + 1/2 FAT EXCHANGE; CAL: 87; CHO: 2mg; CAR: 17g; PRO: 2g;
SOD: 20mg; FAT: 2g;

Source: Light & Easy Diabetes Cuisine by Betty Marks Brought to you
and yours via Nancy O'Brion and Meal-Master
 


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Diet tips

If you enjoy eating, but want to drop a dress size and develop your all round wellbeing, then, as any doctor will tell you, you need to start a specially designed well-balanced meal plan. In a perfect world, this needs to incorporate five helpings of fruit & veg each day and require the correct fusion of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

In deciding on a diet, you have to also make efforts to restrict your intake of fat, refined carbohydrates and salt.

When starting a weight loss program, people often concentrate on food store and big brand food items labelled as 'low fat'. This is far too often foolish, since a food item could be low in fat content, but still much too high in calories and carbohydrates.

One useful tip is to drink plenty of water. Every now and then in the course of a hectic afternoon, you believe you need food but really you may need a cool tumbler of water or juice. The feelings of hunger and thirst are much the same, albeit one of them results in weight increase and one is healthy.

Rather than dwelling on the many types of food you really should remove from your meal plan, direct your attention to the nutritionally sound foods which you are able to introduce to your daily routine. If you manage to bring in some nourishing fruit and vegetables into your meal plan, you will be delighted to find that stop feeling hungry and have a substantially decreased probability of being tempted by those damaging midday potato chips.


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