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Apple Bread Pudding
This dessert uses lower-fat ingredients. Apples and whole grain bread are baked with low fat milk and egg substitute mixture for a bread pudding you won't feel guilty eating.
Ingredients
1/4 Cup granulated sugar
1 t. ground cinnamon
2 C. 1% lowfat milk
1 C. egg substitute
1 T. brown sugar
1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
8 slices stone-ground 100% whole-wheat bread, toasted and cut corner-to-corner
2 large apples, cored & diced
1 1/2 Pint lowfat vanilla frozen yogurt
Directions
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Coat a 9" square baking dish with nonstick spray. 2. Mix sugar & cinnamon. In a bowl, blender, or food processor whisk or blend milk, egg substitute, brown sugar & vanilla extract. 3. Arrange half the toast in baking dish; sprinkle with half the cinnamon-sugar and apples. Repeat layers. Pour milk mixture over top. 4. Bake uncovered 40-50 minutes until a knife inserted in center comes out clean. 5. Cut in squares; top with scoops of frozen yogurt.
Healthy Banana Split Fruit Salad
This tropical fruit salad can be made into a salad of your favorite fruits. For example, you can do this salad for fall by using apples or pears.
Ingredients
2 large bananas
4 cups low fat cottage cheese
1/2 cup walnuts or pecans
1/3 cup raisins
1 mango
1 cup fresh pineapple, sliced
1 cup fresh strawberries
2/3 cup wheat germ or ground flax seed
Directions
Makes two large salads or four smaller ones. Slice bananas in half lengthwise. Place on plates forming an oval. In center of bananas, place cottage cheese, 1/4 cup at a time. Place pineapple slices around bananas. Peel mango and cut into pieces. Arrange around bananas. To peel mango, take a fork and insert it into mango next to seed, then slice mango into quarters through the skin. Peel mango and cut into fruit for serving. Add nuts to top and sides of plate. Sprinkle flax seed or wheat germ over top of cottage cheese. Wash strawberries and add to plate then top everything off with a sprinkle of raisins.
High Protein Chocolate Goodies
Need a quick, healthy pick-me-up? Try these healthy chocolate candies with coconut, nuts and textured vegetable protein.
Ingredients
2 3-4 oz large bars dark chocolate
1 cup textured vegetable protein
1/4 cup unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Directions
Melt chocolate in a double boiler. Add other ingredients and mix well. Use a tablespoon to drop onto wax paper then refrigerate.
Notes: In place of last 2 ingredients you can use chopped nuts, raisins, high protein cereal, seeds (flax, sunflower, pumpkin) soy nuts, dry edamame, or bran.
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