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Cilantro Salsa Recipe

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Cilantro Salsa
2 tomatoes, diced
1 small cucumber, peeled and chopped
1 small red onion, diced
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
1 tsp grated lime peel
1 small green pepper, diced
1 dash hot sauce, up to 2
salt and pepper, to taste


Blend all ingredients to desired chunkiness and chill overnight.

Exchanges: All dinner menus this week have about 550 calories total and
include:

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

Total Fat -- 20g Total Carbohydrate -- 45g Protein -- 33g

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

Recipe for Friday, 5/1/98

Notes: This week we are featuring complete dinner 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).

Dinner: 2 Black Bean Cakes with 1/2 cup Cilantro Salsa and 2 Tbsp low-fat
sour cream 1/2 cup frozen yogurt

Copyright © 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC formatted using MC Buster 2.0f & SNT on 5/6/98

Notes: 4 servings/Serving size: 1/2 cup

Posted to RecipeLu List by Barb at PK on May 6, 1998.
 


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Dieting tips

If you really want to get in shape and better your all round wellbeing, among other things you need to undertake a specially planned balanced meal plan. At best, this needs to incorporate 5 portions of grains and vegetables every day and incorporate the optimum mix of important nutrients.

When deciding on a diet, the important thing is to also attempt to decrease ingestion of fats, refined carbohydrates and salt.

At the start of a diet, people frequently direct your attention to chain store and branded foods described as 'low fat'. To do this is far too often a miscalculation, seeing as how a food may well be low in fats, but still contain excess carbohydrates and calories.

Drink plenty of water. Our bodies need water , it is important for our good health and is void of calories. Water also has the benefit that it fills the dieters stomach and helps decrease sensations of hunger. The recommended amount nutritionalists argue that a good target is to drink at the minimum 6 cups of plain water every 24 hours.

Rather than paying too much attention to the foods that you should leave out of your meal plan, direct your attention to the good foods that you are able to introduce to your meal plan. If one can manage to bring in a few beneficial grains, fruit and vegetables into your diet, you'll soon see that you feel more full and have a far decreased risk of being tempted by those detrimental afternoon chocolates.


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