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July 22, 2009 at 6:59 am
· Filed under Fruits, Nuts & Seeds, Tip Of The Day
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So many things taste better with a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime…but you don’t always have a fresh one at hand. Plan ahead by freezing fresh wedges. When you need a squeeze, microwave a wedge for 20 seconds. The juice will taste as fresh as the day you put the citrus in the freezer. Squeeze the juice on salads or seafood, in your Margarita, anywhere. While the frozen wedge doesn’t look as pretty as fresh, the juice tastes great. Freezing wedges is also a trick for saving unused portions of lemons and limes that might otherwise deteriorate in the refrigerator.
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July 21, 2009 at 7:59 am
· Filed under Contest
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This week’s Gourmet Giveaway is a healthy gift box of Peeled Snacks organic dried fruit and dry-roasted nuts. Peeled Snacks grab-and-go, single-serve dried fruit packs and nut packs include organic and natural options:
- Almond-daze, natural almonds
- Apple-2-the-core, organic dried apples
- Apricot-a-lot, organic dried apricots
- Banan-a-peel, organic dried bananas
- Cashew later, organic dry-roasted cashews, lightly salted
- Cherry-go-round, natural bing cherries
- go-Mango-man-go, organic dried mangos
- pine-4-Pineapple, organic dried pineapple rings
Peeled Snacks also makes grab-and-go bags of mixed fruit and nuts, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week. Read the review.
There’s also another Smucker’s gift basket up for grabs in this week’s Gourmet Giveaway. |
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Peeled Snacks Mango-man-go makes delicious snacking healthy, too. |
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July 21, 2009 at 6:59 am
· Filed under Kids, Tip Of The Day
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Make cheese and fruit kabobs for the kids by using thin pretzel sticks instead of toothpicks or skewers. Use an ice pick to pierce a hole in cheese cubes and fruit (melon balls, grapes, berries) and alternate cheese and fruit on the pretzel stick. Show older kids how to assemble them: It makes a fun project as well as a tempting alternative to less nutritious snacks. Serve the kabobs plain or with with a fat-free yogurt dip. Greek yogurt is less tangy and more like sour cream. You can mix chopped pretzels into it along with healthy sesame and flax seed; the dip goes with both the cheese and the sweet fruit. Of course, grown-ups can enjoy these kabobs, too.
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