Diet Bites Best Daily Diet Journal for Life
Weight management tips, dieting advice, and diet motivation. Includes Sky's menus and recipes. If you are seeking weight loss support - park your mouse here anytime you please. Sky will give it all she's got to help you achieve your weight loss goals and dreams. And yes - dreams can come true!
DIET BITES
dietbites.com
Diet Bites Free Weight Loss Program Free Diet Plans/Menus Calories Diet Recipe Box Weight Loss Coach Latest Articles All Articles
|
|
Diet Bites Best Daily Diet Journal for December 6 Weight Loss
" Cramming in the healthy cranberries + calories in cranberries...."
While some make use of cranberries by stringing them about their Christmas tree, these red bursts of Mother Nature are one of her best gifts to mankind. Pretty too - all wrapped up in bright red packages of goodness, containing a unique flavor that no other food can match.
The best perk is that cranberries are packed full of nutrition. They are a great source of vitamin C and fiber. Cranberries are low in sodium, low in fat and they taste simply dandy!
Cranberries are naturally low in calories but the Sugar Plum Fairy reverses the low calorie effect. In turn, the Cranberry Calorie is greatly inflated and the inflation factor can carry over to our waist line if we're not careful. So much for ho, ho, ho.
Calories in Cranberries
1 cup of whole cranberries contains 44 calories.
1 cup of chopped cranberries contains 51 calories.
1/3 cup of dried cranberries contains 123 calories.
1 cup of sweetened cranberry sauce contains 418 calories. Canned cranberry sauce generally contains 6 slices per can. 1 slice of canned sweetened cranberry sauce contains about 100 calories.
1 cup of unsweetened cranberry juice contains 116 calories.
1 cup of cranberry juice containing sugar substitute (such as Splenda) contains about 40 calories.
To see how many calories are in a typical turkey dinner click here.
Low Calorie Recipe for Cranberry Sauce
You will need:
- 4 cups of fresh or frozen cranberries (12 ounce bag)
- 1/2 to 1 cup of Splenda (depending upon how sweet you like your cranberry sauce.
- 1 cup of water
Allow water to boil and carefully add the cranberries. Simmer until cranberries burst apart - about 5 - 10 minutes, depending upon whether you used frozen or fresh cranberries.
Next, remove from heat and stir in Splenda. If you prefer a thicker cranberry sauce simply add a bit of cornstarch mixed with water to thicken the cranberries before adding the Splenda. About 1 or 2 teaspoons should do the trick.
To take this low calorie cranberry sauce to another level add a bit of grated orange peel or any of the following: chopped nuts, dried fruit, spices such as nutmeg, allspice or cinnamon, extracts such as a dash of vanilla.
|
|
The Holiday Sweet Potato - One Sweet Super Food - All decked out in 'orange in the rough'. Isn't she lovely, this medium-sized sweet potato of mine? click here
Holiday Stuffing Calories - Article includes a lower calorie stuffing recipe that is flat delicious. click here
Calories in Pumpkin Pie - click here
Rapid Weight Loss - When an individual decides to go on a diet, they want to get the weight off as quickly as possible. But rapid weight loss doesn't always equate to permanent weight loss. Here's why... click to continue
-
-
-
-
-
-
Why Buy the Cow When You Can Get the Skim Milk for Free?
-
Copyrighted Sky At Dawn Publishing - All Rights Reserved
-
Diet Bites is a Trademark