Healthy eating project

1. Healthy eating project By:stephanie Cruz Natali Cano

2. Banana berry jumble • Recipe Summary: • Preparation Time:  25 minutes • Number of Servings:  2 • Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person:  0.75 • Ingredients: 1 large banana, halved and cut into 1/2 inch pieces 3/4 cup fresh or frozen cranberries 1/4 cup oats 1/2 tsp nutmeg Directions: Combine all ingredients in a large non-stick skillet. Cook on medium-high heat just until cranberries begin to soften, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; cool slightly. Spoon into bowls and top with low-fat whipped topping, fat-free sour cream or low-fat frozen yogurt, if desired.

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4. Why you should eat banana berry jumble? • You should eat the banana berry jumble because it is a good recipe and tastes good. • It has a lot of strawberries and bananas and if you like cake it is similar. • It is also healthy and it could help you and your body.

5. Salad with strawberry dressing • Recipe Summary: • Preparation Time:  4 hours, 20 minutes • Number of Servings:  6 • Cups of Fruits and Vegetables Per Person:  1.00 • Ingredients:Salad 6 lettuce leaves 6 artichokes (small), prepared and cooked as directed for whole artichokes 1 lb fresh asparagus spears, cooked and chilled 1/3 cup shredded carrot Dressing 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 cup fresh sliced strawberries 2 tsp honey 1/4 tsp allspiceDirections:Salad On six salad plates, arrange lettuce leaves. Halve artichokes lengthwise; remove center petals and fuzzy centers and discard. Remove outer leaves of artichokes and reserve to use as a garnish for the salad. Trim out hearts and slice thinly. Arrange artichoke slices on lettuce leaves with asparagus spears and shredded carrot. Add a few artichoke leaves for garnish. Dressing For dressing, in blender or food processor container, measure all dressing ingredients. Cover and process until mixture is smooth. Spoon dressing over salads to serve. Serving suggestion: Salad can be prepared ahead; cover arranged salad plates and chill up to 4 hours before serving time. Spoon on dressing just before serving

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7. Why you should try salad with strawberry dressing? • Because it is a salad and salads are good for your body and it helps you be healthy. • The good part about this salad is that it has strawberries and other vegetables that have vitamins. • And this salad doesn’t have a lot of sugar.

8. fruit kabobs Reviewed by: Allison Brinkley, RD, LD/NDate reviewed: March 2009 • Prep time: 15 minutes • Ingredients: • 1 apple • 1 banana • 1/3 c. red seedless grapes • 1/3 c. green seedless grapes • 2/3 c. pineapple chunks • 1 c. nonfat yogurt • ¼ c. dried coconut, shredded • Directions: • Prepare the fruit by washing the grapes, washing the apples and cutting them into small squares, peeling the banana and cutting it into chunks, and cutting the pineapple into chunks, if it's fresh. • Spread coconut onto a large plate. • Slide pieces of fruit onto a wooden skewer and design your own kabob by putting as much or as little of whatever fruit you want! Do this until the stick is almost covered from end to end. • Hold your kabob at the ends and roll it in the yogurt, so the fruit gets covered. Then roll it in the coconut. • Repeat these steps with another skewer. • Serves: 4 • Serving size: 1 kabob

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10. Why you should try fruit kabobs? • You should try fruit kabobs because the recipe only uses fruit. • So you can stay more active and more healthy every day. • The other reason you should try fruit kabobs is because all the fruits have vitamins in them. • It could help you stay fit.

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