Here’s a great recipe for a low fat high fiber traditional raised whole-wheat doughnuts that you be able put down. Best of all their a healthy choice to continue on a healthy living diet! Enjoy!!!

1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 cup honey
1 package yeast or 1 tbsp yeast, dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water with a touch of honey
3 eggs
1 cup bran
4 1/2- 5 1/2 cups stone ground whole-wheat flour
1 tsp mace

- Scald the milk, take it off the heat, and put in butter and honey to dissolve together in the hot milk.
- Let cool. In a cup dissolve the yeast as directed, and let stand a few minutes. It will rise. Read the rest of this entry…

The most important meal of the day is breakfast, as it gives the body a much needed energy boost for the rest of the day. However, there are many of us who do skip breakfast, especially when we are in a hurry and opt for a breakfast of calorie and carbohydrate laden foods, which even the most active person would find difficult to burn off. Listed below are a number of quick and healthy breakfast recipes that will starve off hunger until lunchtime. Try these breakfast recipes and give your body the energy that it needs to get you through the morning.

Banana-Bran Muffins

These muffins are a great breakfast filler and sure to keep you going throughout the morning.

Makes 1 dozen muffins

Ingredients:

2 large eggs
2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
2 medium mashed ripe bananas
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup unprocessed wheat bran
1 cup whole-wheat flour
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/cup chocolate chips (optional)
1/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional) Read the rest of this entry…

Counting calories is creepy and wrong. There. I’ve said it. Well, someone had to. All that fiddly obsessing about the precise calorific value of what you choose to put in your mouth; weird and uptight.

But you’re overweight, and want to do something about it. You know there’s a problem, because you can’t shift the fat. You’ve tried dieting and it just makes you miserable and washed out. You’ve tried working out, but that just leaves you tired and cranky. What is the solution?

Apply a little common sense to the snack issue. You should try to eat five meals a day, to make sure your blood sugar level stays on an even keel and you don’t have hunger pangs. A good pattern would go like this:

1.Breakfast. 2.Mid morning snack. 3.Lunch. 4.Mid afternoon snack. 5.Dinner 6.Supper

I know, that’s six meals a day. Hey, I got hungry. Let’s get into what those snacks might be. Obviously, you had a good breakfast, so you don’t need a lot to eat come mid-morning. (You did have a good breakfast, didn’t you? Best meal of the day.) All you need is something to tide you over until lunch, so you don’t slump into a starving heap before then. You’ve got a ten minute break. What do you eat now?

Do you head for the nearest vending machine and buy chocolate? How about a bag of potato chips? There’s nothing really wrong with either choice – I love chocolate – but you’re trying to lose weight. Shoveling in fat and sugar won’t help you do that. So plan ahead and make your own snacks. You can’t rely on vending machines for healthy choices.

A sandwich is an obvious possibility. Wholemeal bread – any bread, as long as it’s not made from white flour – with some low fat protein and healthy fat and salad. The protein might be chicken breast, or cottage cheese, ham, or tinned fish like tuna or sardines. The salad might be lettuce and tomato, onion, celery; whatever you prefer. The healthy fat could be a thin scrape of butter or a drizzle of olive oil. The important thing is that you get some healthy food into you. The protein kills your hunger pangs. The carbohydrates in the bread keep you fueled up and active. The fat gives your body vital ingredients it needs to maintain good health. Read the rest of this entry…

This traditional thanksgiving meal is very rich in fiber and very easy to make. Hence it has found an apt place in the south as a traditional food at all times. Sweet potato pie recipes are no longer attempted once a year. They have found places on dining tables almost throughout the year, especially at holiday gatherings. It can be made as a quick snack at all times because of its fibrous quality.

The way in which you eat the various sweet potato pie recipes has to do with the taste and the amount of calories that you can add or shed by eating it. You can eat this pie plain or topped with whipped toppings or ice creams. A few cooks would make a meringue using egg whites and applying it on the pie a few minutes before removing it from the bake oven. In whichever way this is eaten, as a dessert after meals or in the case of veggies as a main course, sweet potato pie recipes offer the best health and nutrition for weight watchers. Read the rest of this entry…