Ambrosia Fruit Salad Recipe
By the Salad Expert
Serve your Ambrosia Salad in dessert glasses topped with a dollop of yogurt or sour cream and fresh mint. This dish can be eaten as an after-dinner treat or for brunch.
Before we begin to get started lets make sure you see what it will be like to produce it first.
Nutritional Information
(per serving) Serves: 6
Calories 180
Total Fat 6g
Total Carbohydrate 32g
Protein 3g
Ingredients
1 small (2 1/2 pound) golden sweet pineapple, crown and rind removed
6 seedless clementine oranges, peeled, separated into segments
1 pint(s) strawberries, hulled, halved
2 kiwifruit, peeled, halved lengthwise, cut into slices
3/4 cup(s) dried unsweetened coconut chips or shavings
Vanilla yogurt or sweetened sour cream
Fresh mint leaves, for garnish (optional)
Directions
1.Quarter pineapple lengthwise; remove core. Cut crosswise into small chunks. Place in large serving bowl. Add Clementine segments, strawberries, kiwifruit, and coconut; gently toss.
2.Spoon into dessert glasses. Top with a dollop of vanilla yogurt or sweetened sour cream. Garnish with mint sprigs if desired.
Gourmet Salads are Hot!!!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Low Glycemic Foods List-and Where to Buy Them
Here is an Easy list to use for your Low Glycemic Foods: Click on the Item and it will take you directly to where you need to get it from
- Boiled Ham
- Canadian Bacon
- Canola Oil
- Chicken Breasts (skinless)
- Cheese (fat-free or low-fat - American, Cheddar, cottage, cream substitute, feta)
- Cornish Game Hen
- Eggs (whole)
- Fish (all types)
- Green Vegetables
- Lunchmeat (lean)
- Peanut Butter
- Peanuts
- Pecans
- Pistachio Nuts
- Olive Oil
- Seasoning/Spices (broth, butter sprays, pepper, anything containing no sugar)
- Shellfish
- Sirloin
- Sweets * (chocolate powder, cocoa powder (baking type), hard candy, sugar substitute (sugar-free)
- Tenderloin
- Tofu
- Turkey Bacon
- Veal
- Vegetables (artichokes, asparagus, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, eggplant, legumes, lettuce, mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes, zucchini)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The Worst Healthy Foods in America
Story By-David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding, Men's Health
Make the smart swaps listed below and you can lose a few pounds every week--
effortlessly--
and without ever dieting again. Coming soon to chain restaurants nationwide: Calorie counts on chain restaurant menus and menu boards. To us at Eat This, Not That!, this particular provision couldn’t have come soon enough. Case in point: Any of the menu items listed below.
The truth is that it can be nearly impossible to distinguish between a healthy menu choice, and a menu choice that sounds healthy but will actually add hundreds of extra and unnecessary calories to your diet—and potentially saddle you with an extra pound or two every month. You may care about your health and try your hardest to eat conscientiously, but when restaurants offer salads that exceed 1,500 calories and seemingly harmless seafood dishes flirt with 2,000 calories, all that hard work goes to waste—and to your waistline. In researching our newest book, Drink This, Not That!, we discovered the 6 worst “healthy” food offenders. Make the smart swaps listed below, though, and you can lose a few pounds every week—effortlessly—and without ever dieting again.
#6: Worst “Healthy” Smoothie
Smoothie King Skinny Cranberry Supreme (40 oz)
908 calories
2 g fat (0 g saturated)
146 g sugars
It’s hard to pick a “worst” thing when it comes to this drinkable disaster. First, Smoothie King boasts that this drink’s function is to help you “Stay Healthy”—but with as much sugar as in 14 glazed doughnuts and nearly half your day’s worth of calories, it’s clear that this beverage is little more than liquefied sweetener. Second, Smoothie King allows patrons to opt to make their beverages “Skinny,” meaning they’ll leave out the turbinado sweetener. But don’t be fooled by the false advertising: Downing this drink is likely to do anything BUT make you skinny.
Bonus tip: For a more comprehensive list of disastrous beverages, and what to drink instead, check out the new losers on the 2010 list of the 20 Worst Drinks in America.
Drink This Instead!
Skinny Pineapple Pleasure (20 oz)
180 calories
0 g fat
39 g sugars
#5: Worst “Healthy” Burger
Ruby Tuesday Avocado Turkey Burger
1,234 calories
81 g fat
2,961 mg sodium
Turkey often has an undeserved health food reputation. Take turkey bacon, for instance: Most people believe a strip of turkey bacon is better for you than the pork equivalent. But most people are wrong; both strips are roughly 35 calories, and turkey bacon usually comes with more sodium than the oinking variety. (That's why you MUST check labels and use any other tools and guides at your disposal.) Remember this the next time you’re aching for a juicy burger, but want to keep it healthy: Turkey burgers are often just as bad, if not worse, than regular burgers. When at Ruby Tuesday, skip the burgers altogether and order theCowboy Sirloin for your protein fix instead.
Bonus tip: Not all food that sounds healthy is healthy. See for yourself—check out our 30 “Healthy” Foods That Aren’t.
Eat This Instead!
Cowboy Sirloin
658 calories
31 g fat
1,395 mg sodium
#4: Worst “Healthy” Chicken Entrée
Outback Steakhouse Alice Springs Chicken
1,303 calories
94 g fat
2,146 mg sodium
If you read our list of 30 Worst Chicken Dishes in America, you’d know by now that just because a plate has chicken on it doesn’t mean the meal is good for you. This dish is a classic example of a reasonable, lean protein dish gone afowl. It has well over half your day’s caloric allotment, plus nearly a full day’s worth of sodium. Stick with the Grilled Chicken with seasonal veggies, instead.
Eat This Instead!
Grilled Chicken on the Barbie & Fresh Seasonal Veggies
587 calories
26 g fat
1,356 mg sodium
#3: Worst Salad in America
California Pizza Kitchen Waldorf Chicken Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing (full)
1,570 calories
30 g saturated fat
2,082 mg sodium
Remember when salads were a diet food? Forget that mindset, at least when you’re eating out. CPK used to be home to the worst salad in America, the Thai Crunch Salad, which originally rang in at over 2,000 calories. The good news is that as a result of all the attention they downgraded that leafy monstrosity (to a “mere” 1,300-something calories, but still). The bad news, of course, is that there’s still a number of hulking salads on the menu. Like the Waldorf Chicken with Blue Cheese Dressing, for instance. Three-quarters of your day’s calories—in a dish that’s supposed to be good for you. Blame the dressing, obviously, and the piled on extras that are drowning in it.
Bonus tip: For more outrageous vegetable-based fare, see our list of 15 Gut-Busting Salads. You'll be shocked to discover how many seemingly 'healthy' foods on the list aren't!
Eat This Instead!
Moroccan Chicken Salad, Half
412 calories
4 g saturated fat
309 mg sodium
#2: Worst “Healthy” Seafood Entrée
Culver’s North Atlantic Cod Filet Dinner (3 pieces)
2,121 calories
134 g fat (20 g saturated, 2 g trans)
2,568 mg sodium
Fish is healthy, right? Not if Culver’s has anything to do with it. For starters, nearly every single item on the menu is fried, which automatically adds extra caloric heft. But seriously—how is such a disastrous plate concocted? First, take three breaded, fried cod filets—870 calories. Add cole slaw (350 calories) and Tartar sauce (376), a dinner roll with butter (140 calories) and Crinkle Cut fries (385 calories). Bingo.
Bonus tip: This one meal contains more than your entire day’s worth of calories. Not so good. But say you eat normal-sized plates, and you still can’t lose weight. You may want to look to your beverages for the reason. For a great demonstration of how we consume over a quarter of our daily calories in liquid form, check out The Best and Worst Soft Drinks. It’ll make you think twice before picking up that soda.
Eat This Instead!
Walleye Filet Sandwich
653 calories
38 g fat (7 g saturated, 1 g trans)
1,169 mg sodium
#1: The Worst “Healthy” Food in America
Cheesecake Factory Bistro Shrimp Pasta
2,819 calories
77 g saturated fat (Yes, four days' worth!)
1,008 mg sodium
It’s hard to say what’s the most shocking part of this dish—the fact that it has nearly one and a half times your daily caloric allotment, or the fact that it somehow manages to keep the sodium count at a reasonable level, in spite of its monstrous proportions. This is the absolute worst dish on the worst menu in America, no small feat considering that it’s surrounded by other plates that surge past the 2,000-calorie limit. Forget the fact that it has shrimp in it. There is nothing nutritionally redeeming about this platter.
Eat This Instead!
Grilled Mahi Mahi
358 calories
4 g saturated fat
441 mg sodium
Make the smart swaps listed below and you can lose a few pounds every week--
effortlessly--
and without ever dieting again. Coming soon to chain restaurants nationwide: Calorie counts on chain restaurant menus and menu boards. To us at Eat This, Not That!, this particular provision couldn’t have come soon enough. Case in point: Any of the menu items listed below.
The truth is that it can be nearly impossible to distinguish between a healthy menu choice, and a menu choice that sounds healthy but will actually add hundreds of extra and unnecessary calories to your diet—and potentially saddle you with an extra pound or two every month. You may care about your health and try your hardest to eat conscientiously, but when restaurants offer salads that exceed 1,500 calories and seemingly harmless seafood dishes flirt with 2,000 calories, all that hard work goes to waste—and to your waistline. In researching our newest book, Drink This, Not That!, we discovered the 6 worst “healthy” food offenders. Make the smart swaps listed below, though, and you can lose a few pounds every week—effortlessly—and without ever dieting again.
#6: Worst “Healthy” Smoothie
Smoothie King Skinny Cranberry Supreme (40 oz)
908 calories
2 g fat (0 g saturated)
146 g sugars
It’s hard to pick a “worst” thing when it comes to this drinkable disaster. First, Smoothie King boasts that this drink’s function is to help you “Stay Healthy”—but with as much sugar as in 14 glazed doughnuts and nearly half your day’s worth of calories, it’s clear that this beverage is little more than liquefied sweetener. Second, Smoothie King allows patrons to opt to make their beverages “Skinny,” meaning they’ll leave out the turbinado sweetener. But don’t be fooled by the false advertising: Downing this drink is likely to do anything BUT make you skinny.
Bonus tip: For a more comprehensive list of disastrous beverages, and what to drink instead, check out the new losers on the 2010 list of the 20 Worst Drinks in America.
Drink This Instead!
Skinny Pineapple Pleasure (20 oz)
180 calories
0 g fat
39 g sugars
#5: Worst “Healthy” Burger
Ruby Tuesday Avocado Turkey Burger
1,234 calories
81 g fat
2,961 mg sodium
Turkey often has an undeserved health food reputation. Take turkey bacon, for instance: Most people believe a strip of turkey bacon is better for you than the pork equivalent. But most people are wrong; both strips are roughly 35 calories, and turkey bacon usually comes with more sodium than the oinking variety. (That's why you MUST check labels and use any other tools and guides at your disposal.) Remember this the next time you’re aching for a juicy burger, but want to keep it healthy: Turkey burgers are often just as bad, if not worse, than regular burgers. When at Ruby Tuesday, skip the burgers altogether and order theCowboy Sirloin for your protein fix instead.
Bonus tip: Not all food that sounds healthy is healthy. See for yourself—check out our 30 “Healthy” Foods That Aren’t.
Eat This Instead!
Cowboy Sirloin
658 calories
31 g fat
1,395 mg sodium
#4: Worst “Healthy” Chicken Entrée
Outback Steakhouse Alice Springs Chicken
1,303 calories
94 g fat
2,146 mg sodium
If you read our list of 30 Worst Chicken Dishes in America, you’d know by now that just because a plate has chicken on it doesn’t mean the meal is good for you. This dish is a classic example of a reasonable, lean protein dish gone afowl. It has well over half your day’s caloric allotment, plus nearly a full day’s worth of sodium. Stick with the Grilled Chicken with seasonal veggies, instead.
Eat This Instead!
Grilled Chicken on the Barbie & Fresh Seasonal Veggies
587 calories
26 g fat
1,356 mg sodium
#3: Worst Salad in America
California Pizza Kitchen Waldorf Chicken Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing (full)
1,570 calories
30 g saturated fat
2,082 mg sodium
Remember when salads were a diet food? Forget that mindset, at least when you’re eating out. CPK used to be home to the worst salad in America, the Thai Crunch Salad, which originally rang in at over 2,000 calories. The good news is that as a result of all the attention they downgraded that leafy monstrosity (to a “mere” 1,300-something calories, but still). The bad news, of course, is that there’s still a number of hulking salads on the menu. Like the Waldorf Chicken with Blue Cheese Dressing, for instance. Three-quarters of your day’s calories—in a dish that’s supposed to be good for you. Blame the dressing, obviously, and the piled on extras that are drowning in it.
Bonus tip: For more outrageous vegetable-based fare, see our list of 15 Gut-Busting Salads. You'll be shocked to discover how many seemingly 'healthy' foods on the list aren't!
Eat This Instead!
Moroccan Chicken Salad, Half
412 calories
4 g saturated fat
309 mg sodium
#2: Worst “Healthy” Seafood Entrée
Culver’s North Atlantic Cod Filet Dinner (3 pieces)
2,121 calories
134 g fat (20 g saturated, 2 g trans)
2,568 mg sodium
Fish is healthy, right? Not if Culver’s has anything to do with it. For starters, nearly every single item on the menu is fried, which automatically adds extra caloric heft. But seriously—how is such a disastrous plate concocted? First, take three breaded, fried cod filets—870 calories. Add cole slaw (350 calories) and Tartar sauce (376), a dinner roll with butter (140 calories) and Crinkle Cut fries (385 calories). Bingo.
Bonus tip: This one meal contains more than your entire day’s worth of calories. Not so good. But say you eat normal-sized plates, and you still can’t lose weight. You may want to look to your beverages for the reason. For a great demonstration of how we consume over a quarter of our daily calories in liquid form, check out The Best and Worst Soft Drinks. It’ll make you think twice before picking up that soda.
Eat This Instead!
Walleye Filet Sandwich
653 calories
38 g fat (7 g saturated, 1 g trans)
1,169 mg sodium
#1: The Worst “Healthy” Food in America
Cheesecake Factory Bistro Shrimp Pasta
2,819 calories
77 g saturated fat (Yes, four days' worth!)
1,008 mg sodium
It’s hard to say what’s the most shocking part of this dish—the fact that it has nearly one and a half times your daily caloric allotment, or the fact that it somehow manages to keep the sodium count at a reasonable level, in spite of its monstrous proportions. This is the absolute worst dish on the worst menu in America, no small feat considering that it’s surrounded by other plates that surge past the 2,000-calorie limit. Forget the fact that it has shrimp in it. There is nothing nutritionally redeeming about this platter.
Eat This Instead!
Grilled Mahi Mahi
358 calories
4 g saturated fat
441 mg sodium
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Build a Smarter Summer Salad
Give Your Salad Staying Power
To make your salad stick to your ribs, it is important to add a protein source. Some good protein choices are:
•hard-boiled eggs
•egg whites
•grilled chicken
•boiled or steamed shrimp
•grilled salmon
•roasted turkey breast
•water-packed tuna
Tip: Salmon provides omega-3 fatty acids, making it a great choice for improving heart health while getting a protein boost.
Greens
Most salads start with a pile of greens. Since greens are low in calories and are a good source of fiber, it's a great way to add volume to your meal without adding a lot of calories. There are different varieties of lettuce, such as iceberg, leaf, spinach, escarole, romaine, or butter. The darker lettuces offer more vitamins than pale iceberg, for example. Spinach has iron, and all varieties are low in calories. One cup of shredded lettuce has about 5 to 10 calories.
Vegetables
Almost any raw vegetable can be cut up and added to a salad. Green beans, snap peas, carrots, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, asparagus, artichokes, avocados, tomatoes, and cucumbers are all great suggestions. We need five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day, so eating a salad is a good way to meet those needs. Brightly colored vegetables have bioflavonoids, and the dark green vegetables are lowest in calories -- about 20 calories per half cup serving.
Fruit
Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, apple slices and raisins add vitamins and antioxidants. The delicious burst of flavor and sweetness they add can also help you cut back on, or eliminate, high-calories salad dressings. A half cup of apple slices has 30 calories, and a half cup of berries has about 40 calories.
Meat and Cheese
To make a meal of a salad, you may wish to add some healthy protein sources like chopped or sliced hard-boiled eggs, lean beef, cooked shrimp, tuna, chicken breast, or strips of cheese. Make sure to measure your protein sources, since meats and cheese have more calories than fruit or vegetables. Avoid fried meats like chicken strips or battered and fried shrimp. They contain unhealthy fats and lots of calories. A quarter cup of chopped chicken meat or one egg will add 75 calories. Half a can of tuna will add about 80 calories. Two ounces of cubed or shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese may add up to 200 calories.
To make your salad stick to your ribs, it is important to add a protein source. Some good protein choices are:
•hard-boiled eggs
•egg whites
•grilled chicken
•boiled or steamed shrimp
•grilled salmon
•roasted turkey breast
•water-packed tuna
Tip: Salmon provides omega-3 fatty acids, making it a great choice for improving heart health while getting a protein boost.
Greens
Most salads start with a pile of greens. Since greens are low in calories and are a good source of fiber, it's a great way to add volume to your meal without adding a lot of calories. There are different varieties of lettuce, such as iceberg, leaf, spinach, escarole, romaine, or butter. The darker lettuces offer more vitamins than pale iceberg, for example. Spinach has iron, and all varieties are low in calories. One cup of shredded lettuce has about 5 to 10 calories.
Vegetables
Almost any raw vegetable can be cut up and added to a salad. Green beans, snap peas, carrots, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, asparagus, artichokes, avocados, tomatoes, and cucumbers are all great suggestions. We need five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day, so eating a salad is a good way to meet those needs. Brightly colored vegetables have bioflavonoids, and the dark green vegetables are lowest in calories -- about 20 calories per half cup serving.
Fruit
Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, apple slices and raisins add vitamins and antioxidants. The delicious burst of flavor and sweetness they add can also help you cut back on, or eliminate, high-calories salad dressings. A half cup of apple slices has 30 calories, and a half cup of berries has about 40 calories.
Meat and Cheese
To make a meal of a salad, you may wish to add some healthy protein sources like chopped or sliced hard-boiled eggs, lean beef, cooked shrimp, tuna, chicken breast, or strips of cheese. Make sure to measure your protein sources, since meats and cheese have more calories than fruit or vegetables. Avoid fried meats like chicken strips or battered and fried shrimp. They contain unhealthy fats and lots of calories. A quarter cup of chopped chicken meat or one egg will add 75 calories. Half a can of tuna will add about 80 calories. Two ounces of cubed or shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese may add up to 200 calories.
Chicken Recipe, with Paula Deen from the Food Network.
Paula Deen Shows us how easy, simple, and elegant chicken salad can be, enjoy the show!
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