Perfect Picnic Side Dishes
June 17, 2017 at 5:11 AM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Diabetic Living On Line | Leave a commentTags: Baking, Cooking, Diabetes, Diabetic Living Online, Food, Fruit salad, Grilling, Low Carb Recipes, Picnic Side Dishes, recipes, Salad, Slaw, Snack Mix
From the Diabetic Living Online website its Perfect Picnic Side Dishes. Make that Picnic a perfect one with these delicious and Diabetic Friendly Recipes. Recipes including; Green Apple Slaw, Lemon-Zested Snack Mix, and BLT Cups. Find these and more all at the Diabetic Living Online website. Enjoy and Eat Healthy! http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/
Warm weather calls for outdoor picnics! Instead of heavy picnic food, bring one of these healthy picnic side dish ideas. Whether you’re looking for a diabetes-friendly picnic salad recipe or a lightened-up potato side dish, we have easy picnic recipes that will wow your friends and family.
Green Apple Slaw
Picnic guests will love the sweet, refreshing flavor of this simple fruit salad recipe. The easy side dish requires just a little chopping and mixing, and it contains 67 calories and 10 grams of carb per serving……
Lemon-Zested Snack Mix
Believe it or not, this low-carb, flavor-packed snack mix comes together in the slow cooker. Friends and family will love munching on the unique picnic recipe idea…..
BLT Cups
For your next picnic or dinner party, serve sandwich-theme salads in portion-controlled cups. Whole wheat croutons, turkey bacon, and cherry tomatoes liven up the creative, low-carb side dish idea……..
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Kitchen Hint of the Day!
December 22, 2016 at 6:11 AM | Posted in Kitchen Hints | Leave a commentTags: Almonds, Banana Chips, Cooking, Cooking Tips, Food, Fruit, Fruit salad, Kitchen Hints, recipes
Add some crunch and flavor to your fruit salad……
To add some crunch to fruit salads, use almonds and dried banana chips as croutons.
One of America’s Favorites – Fruit Salad
November 7, 2016 at 5:59 AM | Posted in One of America's Favorites | Leave a commentTags: Appetizers, Bananas, Berries, Cooking, Food, Fruit, Fruit salad, Honey, Kiwi, One of America's Favorites, oranges, recipes, Yogurt

A plate of fruit salad made of pear, satsuma mandarin, kiwifruit, passion fruit, pomegranate seeds, and Greek yogurt mixed with honey, cardamom and vanilla sugar
Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either in their own juices or a syrup. When served as an appetizer or as a dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail or fruit cup. In different forms fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, a side-salad, or a dessert.
There are a number of home recipes for fruit salad that contain different kinds of fruit, or that use a different kind of sauce other than the fruit’s own juice or syrup. Common ingredients used in fruit salads include strawberries, pineapple, honeydew, watermelon, grapes, banana, and kiwifruit. Various recipes may call for the addition of nuts, fruit juices, certain vegetables, yogurt, or other ingredients.
One variation is a Waldorf-style fruit salad, which uses a mayonnaise-based sauce. Other recipes use sour cream (such as in ambrosia), yogurt or even mustard as the primary sauce ingredient. A variation on fruit salad uses whipped cream mixed in with many varieties of fruits (usually a mixture of berries), and also often include miniature marshmallows. Rojak, a Malaysian fruit salad, uses a spicy sauce with peanuts and shrimp paste. In the Philippines, fruit salads are popular party and holiday fare, usually made with buko, or young coconut, and condensed milk in addition to other canned or fresh fruit.
Mexico has popular variation of the fruit salad called Bionico which consists various fruits drenched in condensed
milk and sour cream mix.
There is also an extended variety of fruit salads in Moroccan cuisine, often as part of a kemia, a selection of appetizers or small dishes analogous to Spanish tapas or eastern Mediterranean mezze.
A fruit salad ice cream is also commonly manufactured, with small pieces of real fruit embedded in, flavored either with juices from concentrate, fruit extracts, or artificial chemicals.
Fruit cocktail is often sold canned and is a staple of cafeterias, but can also be made fresh. The use of the word “cocktail” in the name does not mean that it contains alcohol, but refers to the secondary definition “An appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood”. Fruit cocktail is sometimes used to make pruno.
In the United States, the USDA stipulates that canned “fruit cocktail” must contain a certain percentage distribution of pears, grapes, cherries, peaches, and pineapples to be marketed as fruit cocktail. It must contain fruits in the following range of percentages:
* 30% to 50% diced peaches, any yellow variety
* 25% to 45% diced pears, any variety
* 6% to 16% diced pineapple, any variety
* 6% to 20% whole grapes, any seedless variety
* Few to no cherry halves, any light sweet or artificial red variety (like maraschino cherries)
Both William Vere Cruess of the University of California, Berkeley and Herbert Gray of the Barron-Gray Packing Company of San Jose, California have been credited with the invention of fruit cocktail. Canned fruit cocktail and canned fruit salad are similar, but fruit salad contains larger fruit while fruit cocktail is diced.
Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
July 8, 2016 at 5:28 AM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Diabetic Living On Line | Leave a commentTags: Baking, Berries, Citrus, Cooking, Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes, Food, Fruit, Fruit salad, Peaches, recipes
From the Diabetic Living Online website its Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes. Fruit Salad made even healthier! Recipes including; Peach-Berry Frozen Dessert, Fresh Fruit Salad with Creamy Lime Topping, and Fresh Fruit with Citrus Mint Dressing. You can see them all at the Diabetic Living Online website, Enjoy! http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/
Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
Sweet and juicy berries, melons, and citrus fruits combine in our favorite fruit salad recipes. These fruity and fun recipes make refreshing sides and sweet desserts–perfect for warm summer days!
Peach-Berry Frozen Dessert
Fat-free yogurt and light dessert topping help keep this fruity dessert low in calories, carbs, and fat……
Fresh Fruit Salad with Creamy Lime Topping
Top your fruit salad with this summery, lime-accented dip. The tasty topper brings out the best in fresh fruits.
Tip: Spoon the creamy mixture over a summer medley of citrus, exotic fruits, and berries. Or, opt for a simpler fruit mix of apples, grapes, and bananas……
Fresh Fruit with Citrus Mint Dressing
Pineapple, strawberries, kiwifruit, and mango combine for a fantastic fruit salad. The tangy dressing is made with orange juice, honey, and fresh mint.
Tip: Make a luscious smoothie from any leftover fruit by blending it with low-fat vanilla yogurt…….
* Click the link below to get all the Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/diabetic-recipes/side-dishes/diabetes-friendly-fruit-salad-recipes
Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
May 3, 2015 at 5:20 AM | Posted in diabetes, diabetes friendly, Diabetic Living On Line | Leave a commentTags: Cooking, Diabetes, Diabetic Living On Line, Food, Fruit, Fruit salad, recipes
Take your pick on these healthy and delicious Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes. From the Diabetic Living On Line website. http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/
Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
Sweet and juicy berries, melons, and citrus fruits combine in our favorite fruit salad recipes. These fruity and fun recipes make refreshing sides and sweet desserts–perfect for warm summer days!
Peach-Berry Frozen Dessert
Fat-free yogurt and light dessert topping help keep this fruity dessert low in calories, carbs, and fat…..
Fresh Fruit Salad with Creamy Lime Topping
Top your fruit salad with this summery, lime-accented dip. The tasty topper brings out the best in fresh fruits.
Tip: Spoon the creamy mixture over a summer medley of citrus, exotic fruits, and berries. Or, opt for a simpler fruit mix of apples, grapes, and bananas…..
* Click the link below to get all the Diabetes-Friendly Fruit Salad Recipes
http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com/diabetic-recipes/side-dishes/diabetes-friendly-fruit-salad-recipes
Kitchen Hint of the Day!
December 26, 2014 at 6:25 AM | Posted in Kitchen Hints | 3 CommentsTags: Banana Chips, Cooking, Croutons, Food, Fruit salad, Kitchen Hints, recipes, Salads
A Salad tip from Janice!
To add some crunch to fruit salads, use almonds and dried banana chips as “croutons.”
Kiwi Fruit Salad
July 7, 2011 at 8:35 PM | Posted in dessert, diabetes, diabetes friendly, Food, fruits, low calorie, low carb, salad | Leave a commentTags: Cooking, Fruit, Fruit salad, Home, Kiwi Fruit, Kiwifruit, Orange (fruit), Salad
Kiwi Fruit Salad
Ingredients
* 2 large kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
* 1 large pear, peeled and sliced
* 1 medium navel orange, peeled and sectioned
* 1 cup seedless red grapes, halved
* 1/2 cup ginger ale
* 1/2 teaspoon grated orange peel
Directions
* In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Serve with a slotted spoon.
* Yield: 4 servings.
Nutrition Facts: 3/4 cup equals 114 calories, 1 g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 6 mg sodium, 29 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchange: 1-1/2 fruit.
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