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Yogurt & Cottage Cheese Salad

• 1 yogurt
• 1/4 (breakfast) or 1/2 (lunch) a cup of light 1% cottage cheese
• 1 cup of mixed berries OR 1/2 cup granola/cereal/oats/nuts/graham crackers OR 1 sliced banana/apple etc.
• cinnamon - Yum!

 Oatmeal Pancakes

For your own healthy pancake mix:

• 1/2 cup of oatmeal
• 1/4 cup light 1% cottage cheese
• 2 eggs or egg whites (flax seed mix & water work as egg replacement too)
• dash of nutmeg
• dash of cinnamon
• 1 cap of vanilla

Banana Ice Cream

For one serving:

Slice 2 bananas, place on baking sheet and put in freezer for a few hours until frozen
Take out of freezer and blend (you will be blending for about ten minutes, but it will eventually all smooth out)
 For soft serve eat right away, or replace in freezer until hard again.
 For toppings, sometimes I crush up almonds, walnuts, pecans, or graham crackers.  

Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup

Ingredients:

• 2 medium-large sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into 2cm dice. (about 5 cups)
• 2 cups chopped carrots
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 3/4 tsp curry powder
• salt & pepper
• 1/2 tsp  ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger  
• 4 cups of chicken broth
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 3/4 cup light cream

Directions:

1. In a 5L slow cooker place sweet potatoes, carrots, onion, curry, salt & pepper, cinnamon, ginger, chicken broth. Stir and cover; cook on low for 7-8 hours.
2.  Puree soup 1 cup at a time in blender, then return to slow cooker. Add maple syrup and cream. Cover and cook on high for 15 minutes to reheat.
3.  Makes 8 servings.  

Baked Zucchini Fries
 Ingredients:

• 3 medium zucchini, sliced into sticks (94)
• 1 large egg white (16)
• 1/3 cup seasoned whole wheat bread crumbs (110)
• 2 tbs. grated Pecorino Romano cheese (50)
• cooking spray (5)
• 1/4 tsp. garlic powder (2)
• salt (0)
• fresh pepper (1)

 Method: Preheat the oven to 425 F. In a small bowl, beat the egg whites and season with salt and pepper. In a ziplock bag, place the breadcrumbs, garlic powder and cheese; shake well. Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray and set aside. Dip the zucchini sticks into the egg and then place into the bread crumb and cheese mixture, a few at a time and shake to coat. Place the breaded zucchini in a single layer and spray more cooking spray on top. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve with some sauce of choice (optional) for dipping. 
Makes 3 servings, each with: 93 calories, 2.6g total fat, 13.5g carbohydrates, 6.3g protein and 56% (of recommended daily value) of vitamin C

Toasted Muesli

Makes: 6 cups

Ingredients

• 3.5 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups bran cereal
• ½ cup sunflower kernels
• ½ cup shredded coconut
• ¼ cup pumpkin seeds
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon (sprinkled over more every time I stirred)
• ½ cup honey (I used just under this)
• 60g butter, coarsely chopped

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Combine the oats, bran cereal and flakes, sultanas, sunflower kernels, almonds, coconut, linseeds and cinnamon in a large bowl.

2. Drizzle prepared pan with honey and sprinkle with butter. Cook in oven for 5 minutes or until butter foams and honey begins to bubble (make sure butter and honey are melted so the oat mixture can be evenly coated in the honey mixture).

3. Add oat mixture to the pan. Stir to coat in honey mixture. Spread evenly over base of pan (make sure the mixture Is even so it cooks at the same rate).

4. Cook in oven, stirring every 5 minutes with a flat-edged wooden spoon, for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and set aside for 30 minutes to cool.