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Red White and Blue Help For Diabetics

It’s a holiday, and you know what that means! For most of us our diet just flies out the window. Tables loaded with grilled meat, trays of buns and rolls, potato salad, chips and more chips, beer and soda... and let’s not forget the red, white and blue cake for dessert!

For some of us this is just a bad diet day, but for those out there with diabetes this could mean a lot more than that.

So, are you helpless in the face of the holiday eating pressure? No! I found this article with some tips on a few simple things to do in the face of the snack table and dessert buffet. Check out 4 Tips for Diabetic Eating on July 4th.

I also found a great 4th of July recipe (at informationaboutdiabetes.com) to make this morning to take to that barbeque tonight. So don’t despair and resign yourself to either a bad health day or a day of denying yourself something yummy - go to the store and pick up some ingredients and get to the kitchen quick!

Ingredients: 1 cup vanilla wafer crumbs 4 tbsp margarine - melted 3 tbsp nutrasweet - spoonful 1 env. (1/4 oz.) unflavored gelatin 1 cup skim milk 2 package 8 oz. each - reduced fat cream cheese - softened 1 package 3 oz. - reduced fat cream cheese -, softened 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp grated lemon rind 2 tsp vanilla extract 1/3 cup to 1/2 cup nutrasweet spoonful 1 pt blueberries 2 pt raspberries

Preparation:

This recipe came from a cookbook that you can get by calling the NutraSweet/Equal Company. The cookbook is THE NUTRASWEET SPOONFUL RECIPE COLLECTION.

1. Mix crumbs, margarine and the 3 tbsp. NutraSweet Spoonful in medium bowl; pat evenly on bottom of jelly roll pan, 15 x 10 inches.
2. Sprinkle gelatin over milk in small saucepan; let stand 2 to 3 minutes.
Heat over medium low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin is dissolved. Cool to room temperature.
3. Beat cream cheese until fluffy in large bowl; gradually beat in milk mixture. Beat in lemon juice and rind, vanilla and 1/3 to 1/2 cup NutraSweet Spoonful. Pour mixture over crust; refrigerate until set, 3 to 4 hours.
4. Before serving, decorate to look like a flag, using the blueberries for the stars, and the raspberries for the stripes. Yield: 16 servings.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION: Serving Size: 1 pc. - approximately 1/16 recipe. Calories 170, Protein 5 g. carbohydrates 16 g, total fat 10 g, saturated fat 3 g, cholesterol 22 mg, fiber 3 g, sodium 202 mg.

DIABETIC FOOD EXCHANGE: 1 starch and 2 fat

Serves: 16

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Written by Stephen Ayer. Get more
health tips at HealthTipsRoundup.com
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