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Orange Cranberry Yogurt Muffins

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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange zest
  • 2/3 cup dried cranberries
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup quick oats
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup fat-free vanilla yogurt
  • 1/4 cup butter

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Preheat oven to 375°F. Coat muffin tin with nonstick spray.
  3. Combine dried cranberries with 1/4 cup orange juice; set aside
  4. Sift together flour and baking soda. Add sugar and oats. Stir well.
  5. In a separate bowl, blend egg, orange juice, yogurt, and butter. Pour egg mixture into flour mixture. Add orange zest and cranberries.
  6. Scoop mixture into muffin tins.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes at 375°F.

Makes 18 servings

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Orange Almond Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1½ cup assorted greens
  • 1 navel or mandarin orange, peeled and separated into sections (may substitute canned mandarin oranges, drained and rinsed)
  • ¼ cup thinly sliced celery
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped green onion
  • 2 Tablespoons cider vinegar
  • 1-2 Tablespoons sugar or honey
  • 1 teaspoon olive or canola oil
  • 1 Tablespoon toasted slivered almonds

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Combine greens, orange sections, celery, and green onions in a large bowl.
  3. Place salad on two salad plates and garnish with ½ Tablespoon of almonds over each salad.
  4. Combine vinegar, sugar or honey, and oil in small mixing bowl; stir until well blended and drizzle over each salad.  Serve immediately.

Makes 2 servings.

Sunshine Salad

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Ingredients

  • 5 cups spinach leaves (packed, washed, and dried well)
  • ½ red onion (sliced thin)
  • ½ red pepper (sliced)
  • 1 cucumber (whole, sliced)
  • 2 orange (peeled and chopped into bite-size pieces)
  • 1/3 cup vinaigrette dressing (“lite”, around 15 calories per tablespoon or less)

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.
  2. Toss all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  3. Add dressing and toss again. Serve immediately.

Makes 5 servings.

Easy Fruit Salad

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Ingredients

  • 1 can fruit cocktail (16 ounce, drained)
  • 2 bananas (sliced)
  • 2 oranges (cut into bite-size pieces)
  • 2 apples (cut into bite-size pieces)
  • 8 ounces yogurt, low-fat
  • 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional 

Directions

  1. Wash hands with warm, soapy water.

  2. Mix fruit in a large bowl.

  3. Add yogurt and mix well.

  4. Chill in refrigerator before serving.

Makes 14 servings. 

Pumpkin Raisin Bread

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Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cup whole-wheat flour
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • ½ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup non-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
  • ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 2 egg whites

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. In two separate bowls, mix dry, and then wet ingredients.
    Then combine, adding wet to dry and stirring gently until
    the mixture is uniform.
  3.  Depending if you are making bread or muffins, either
    spoon the mixture into a non-stick muffin tray or a bread
    pan.
  4.  Bake muffins for 25 minutes, or loaf of bread for 75 minutes.
Makes 12 servings. 
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