General cooking tips

Buying an Oven : If you need to purchase a gas oven or range, look for one with an automatic, electric ignition system. An electric ignition saves gas-because a pilot light is not burning continuously.


Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Diet types

The low-cal diet

In simple terms, a low calorie weight loss regime says that if you plan to get rid of some fat, the important thing to eat fewer calories than you need.

So what is a calorie?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. The calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when eaten.

Foods low in calories include cauliflower, swede, guava, steaks and burgers, and low-fat cheese.











Title- Apple Orange Spice Muffins (Ww) Recipe
Title- Apple Orange Spice Muffins (Ww) Category Baking Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

Servings: 12

3/4 c flour

1 1/2 t baking powder

1/2 t cinnamon

1/4 t baking soda

1 dash salt

1/3 c instant nonfat dry milk

2 T margarine

1 T brown sugar

1 large egg

2 apple

2 T raisins

-------------------------Plus 1 tsp. frozen. concentrate------------------------- 1 T apple juice

1 orange peel

1 dash cream of tartar

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Into small bowl sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cloves; stir in milk powder and set aside. In mixing bowl cream margarine with sugar; add egg yolk and, using electric mixer on medium speed, beat until thick and creamy. Add apples, raisins, juice, and orange peel and stir to combine; add flour mixture and beat until well blended. In separate bowl, using clean beaters and mixer on high speed, beat egg white with cream of tartar until stiff but not dry; fold into batter. Spray eight 2 1/2 inch diameter nonstick muffin pan cups with nonstick cooking spray; spoon 1/8 of batter into each sprayed cup (each will be about 2/3 full) and partially fill remaining cups with water (this will prevent pan from burning and/or warping). Bake 20 to 25 minutes (until cake tester, inserted in center, comes out clean). Remove pan from oven and carefully drain off water (remember, it will be boiling hot); remove muffins to wire rack and let cool. Makes 4 servings of 2 MUFFINS EACH!

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