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Tips healthy, Low Calorie-New Fruit
Fruits are packed with vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants, also as being lower in calories than many other foods that are even as sweet. Sometimes only “sweet” will do, right? Try among these fruit salads on your family tonight.
Summer is the absolute perfect time to make use of the fresh harvest of fruits available. Fruit salad doesn’t have to be loaded with sugar to be delicious. You are able to use sugar substitutes and low fat dressing or mix options to optimize the healthy aspects of any salad. Fruits are packed with vitamins, minerals, nutrients and antioxidants, also as being lower in calories than many other foods that are even as sweet. Sometimes only “sweet” will do, right?
Here are a few fruit recipes that won’t only satisfy that sweet craving, but that are nutritionally sound and which you are able to either eat as apart dish to your main meal, as the entrée itself or as a snack.
Cinnamon-Almond Fruit Salad has a really nice blend of flavors, has the additional health benefits of cinnamon (just 1/2 tsp. a day can lower your LDL cholesterol & is a great source of manganese, fiber, iron and calcium) and the crunch and good-for-you fat of toasted almonds.
You need:
1. 2 cups blueberries
2. 2 bananas, sliced
3. 3 cups strawberries, halved
4. 8-ounce vanilla yogurt
5. 2 cups red or green grapes, seedless
6. 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
7. 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
8. 1/2 cup toasted almonds, sliced, slivered or chopped
You can either divide the fruit into 8 individual salad bowls or serve as one large salad.
1. Combine yogurt, vanilla extract and the cinnamon together and so drizzle over the fruit, then sprinkle each with about a Tbsp. of the toasted almonds.
Each serving has 153 calories, 4 g protein, 28 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 0.6 g saturated fat, 1 mg cholesterol, 3.3 g fiber, and 23 mg sodium with the calories from fat being 23%. (The majority of fat here is the “good” kind from the almonds. The only other fat comes from the yogurt)
As you can see, fruit can be interesting and tasty. These are only a few recipes and there are tons more that you can use. E.g., if you’ve specific fruit on hand, you can search the type of fruits that you’ve to use, add salad to the end of it and you’ll probably come on with a remarkable recipe or two, at the very least. So, don’t hesitate to buy fruit because it doesn’t always get eaten. Be sure it gets eaten by serving it in exciting and creative ways that will awake your family’s fruit cravings.
Fruit Kabobs are a great way to get creative and to add some color and yummy nutrition to a meal. You are able to use about any fruit you choose and alternate them with large puffy or several small marshmallows…or not. The choice is yours. Kabobs look best when served if they all are patterned as is or you can alternate two different patterns to mix them up a little. Here is a sample recipe that will make 4 kabobs.
You need:
1. 1 cup watermelon balls or cubes
2. 1 bag of large or mini marshmallows, white or colored
3. 2 kiwis, sliced through quarters
4. 1/2 cup seedless grapes
5. 1 cup thick-sliced bananas
6. Kabob skewers
Just skewer the fruit and marshmallows alternating them or doubling them up to make an attractive presentation and so arrange them on a platter. You are able to arrange them on thin orange slices or lettuce leaves or on vinyl doilies for a fancier presentation. It’s amazing how your imagination can run wild; you can even choose vegetables for their colours in order to match the décor for a party theme. Another option is to choose fruits that can be frozen. Melon balls or cubes, all types of berries and grapes will freeze really well. It’s best to makeup the kabobs too soon and freeze them so that you can pull them out just before serving.

