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Low-Fat Pastry from the Recipes EU Collection

 


Low-Fat Pastry Recipe

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Low-Fat Pastry
1 3/4 cup Flour
6 tbsp Vegetable shortening
1/4 tsp Baking powder
1/3 cup Water


Measure first 3 ingredients into bowl. Work together until crumbly.

Pour water all over top. Mix with fork, then hands, until it will
hold together. Roll thinly. Makes enough for 2 crusts. For a 2
crust pie, cut through top crust with a sharp knife while pie is
still hot.

1/8 single crust contains 95 calories 1 mg sodium, 5 mg fat

Source: Company's Coming Light Recipes by Jean Pare 1993 Shared but
not tested by Elizabeth Rodier Sept 93
 


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If you enjoy your food, but want to become thinner and also enhance your all round health, then you ought to start a meticulously calculated well-balanced meal plan. If possible, this needs to take in 5 helpings of fruit & vegetables a day and also include the optimum mix of fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

When planning a dietary regime, it is important to make sure you restrict your ingestion of fat, salt and refined carbohydrates.

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Instead of focusing on which foods that you ought to eliminate from your daily routine, look at the good foods that you should introduce to your meal plan. If you bring in the recommended portions beneficial fruit/vegetables into your dietary regime, you'll soon see that you feel more satisfied and have a far lower likelihood of being seduced by those detrimental mid-afternoon sweets and chocolates.


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