Articles tagged with Fruit
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Healthy Home-made Apple Sauce
Even though apple season is 5 months away, I had a hankering for some fresh homemade apple-sauce. So over the weekend I whipped up a batch and it turned out amazing! Here’s an easy recipe for you to try. Home-made apple sauce is a great low-calorie, nutritious snack. Although the apples are peeled and cooked, losing much of their [...]
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April Showers Bringing May Fruit Flowers
Looking for the perfect Spring-time gift to give a friend this May? Fruit Bouquets are the ultimate craze! Making fruit bouquets is a fun and creative activity that you can participate in with the kids. The material you're working with is healthy, so you won't get distracted by carb-loaded cake mixtures or chocolate, and the [...]
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Here’s To the End of Overeating: Changing Yourself
Making changes to your behaviour, attitudes, beliefs, patterns of living, mood states, personality, thinking, perception of yourself and perceptions of others all require you to go through a process. Changing yourself starts with the realisation that making a change is important. What could prompt you to think of making that needed change; the one that you [...]
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A Low-Calorie Snack Survival Guide
Dieting can be a struggle for even the most disciplined. Going against your cravings, turning down tasty desserts and making wise restaurant choices is difficult for even those of us who give advice about it. And although recent studies show that caloric restriction has wide-ranging health benefits and may offer protection [...]
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Winter Wonderland Salad
As the days grow shorter, there’s still plenty of delicious seasonal produce to enjoy. Check out this recipe that features late-season favorites like beets, cauliflower, and walnuts for a delicious, nutritious salad that’s great any time of year (but especially now!). 2 oz. balsamic vinegar 1 Tbsp. whole-grain or coarse-grain mustard 4 oz. [...]
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Lidia's Roasted Pears with Candied Celery
It's a much more rustic presentation than I originally envisioned. But its elegance is undeniable nonetheless in the unusual marriage of the classic with the unexpected. The lemon zest and the celery are baked along with the pears and then cooked again, seperately, in the baking liquid until they are candied. This mixture is then [...]
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Steamed Lychee Souffle
Ingredients (5 soffles) 6 tablespoons sugar 1/4 cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 3 eggs Zest of 1 lemon 1/4 cup lychee syrup (from a can of lychees) 3/4 cup milk 15 lychees Method 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 2. Combine 3 tbsp sugar, the flour and the salt 3. Separate the eggs 4. Beat the egg yolks. Whisk in zest, lychee syrup, and mlik. 5. Add flour mixture [...]
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Vanilla-Vanilla Bean Roasted Apple Pie
When I read the recipe, I immediately knew why it was award-winning. I loved the idea of a vanilla-scented crust and roasted apples Roasting anything magnifies the the intensity of the flavours. The crust had little flecks of vanilla bean and is the best I've tasted. It was very easy to prepare. Roasting the apples [...]
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A List of Lowest Calorie Fruits
Fruits usually contain few calories in comparison to most other types food we eat. Below is a list of lowest calorie fruits we have prepared, to help those who want to lose weight and looking to cut down the amount of calories in their diet. The portion size considered is ‘one cup’ of the [...]
