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Fruit and Yogurt Elbow Salad Recipe
Serve a Salad Kids Will Flip For
(Family Features) A refreshing salad should be quick, easy, and full of delicious in-season produce. With its countless possibilities for add-ins, a fruit and pasta salad fits the bill perfectly as a dish the whole family will love to prepare and eat. Mom or Dad will need to start things off by cooking the pasta according to package directions. Preparing this recipe with Dreamfields pasta provides added nutrition benefits parents will love and kids won't even notice. Made from durum wheat semolina, Dreamfields has the same taste and texture as traditional pasta but with 5 grams of fiber and only 5 grams of digestible carbohydrates per 1-cup cooked serving. While the pasta cooks, enlist the kids to create the dressing - a creamy mix of yogurt, honey and a dash of cinnamon - and choose favorite fruits for the salad. A colorful combination of the season's freshest fruits like sweet, delicious blueberries, kiwi, peaches and strawberries, paired with a refreshing hint of mint, makes this simple-to-fix salad really come together. Kids can help toss the pasta, fruit, mint and dressing together in a large bowl and sprinkle with almonds for a little crunch. This bright and flavorful pasta salad - perfect for potlucks, picnics or even a lazy summer breakfast - is anything but ordinary. For more pasta salad recipes and directions on how to submit your own original recipe for a chance to win a case of Dreamfields in the Second Annual Pastapalooza Pasta Salad Contest, visit www.TryDreamfields.com/PastaSalad. Fruit and Yogurt Elbow Salad Recipe Ingredients
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Preparation Time: Cook Time: SOURCE: Smell More Eat Less Newswise You know odor can affect hunger. Certainly, an awful smell can make you lose your appetite! But since inhaling putrid stenches is not our idea of a fun diet, we were delighted to learn that mouth-watering aromas might also help moderate food intake. Dutch researchers designed the study to be as scientifically precise as possible: The test subjects, 6 men and 4 women, average age 36 , were allowed to partake freely of vanilla custard, while exposed to either a strong vanilla cream aroma, no aroma, or a weak aroma. Those inhaling the strongest vanilla aroma actually consumed 5% less custard compared to the weak/no scent group. While 5% might not seem that impressive, applied regularly to a 2,000 calorie day this would translate into 100 calories saved per day, and 36,500 calories saved per year. That, in turn, translates into 10 pounds lost (or not gained at least!) over a 12 month period. Why might this be? Well as Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation shared in a recent interview with us (watch here), olfactory factors play a big role in satiety, which is why those who lose their sense of smell often gain weight. Certain scents, banana and apple, might actually help you drop pounds. Moreover, taking time to inhale and enjoy food aromas as part of the sensory experience of dining contributes to mindful eating, where you are tuned into actual hunger levels and less likely to eat more than you really want (or need). Other mindful eating tricks: using chopsticks, chewing slowly, and turning off the television during mealtime. Released: 5/9/2012 9:00 AM EDT Source: Dole Nutrition Institute
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| Food Fun and Facts has over 900 pages of Recipes, Household Hints and Homemaking Information. Please use the Menu, or for a quick search of Food Fun and Facts, use the Site Search Bar Below. Enjoy! Plate Size Doesn't Help Reduce Calories The size of ones dinner plate does not help to curb energy intake or control portion sizes, according to a recent study conducted at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Smaller plates are often recommended as a way of controlling intake, but that simply isnt an effective strategy,said Meena Shah, senior researcher and professor of kinesiology at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth. There was no plate size, weight status, or plate size by weight status effect on meal energy intake. Researchers including Meena Shah, senior researcher, Rebecca Schroeder, lead researcher, and Walker Winn from Texas Christian University, and Beverley Adams-Huet from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas examined 10 normal weight women and 10 overweight or obese women over two different days at lunch. Subjects were randomly assigned to consume lunch using either a small (21.6 cm) or large (27.4 cm) plate. The meal, which consisted of spaghetti and tomato sauce, was served in an individual serving bowl. Each subject was asked to self-serve the food from the bowl onto the assigned plate and instructed to eat until satisfied. The meal was consumed alone and without any distractions. During the second lunch, each subject went through the same procedure but using the alternative size plate. “It is possible that plate size does not have an impact on energy intake because people eat until they are full regardless of what utensils they are using,said Shah. Plate size also did not affect ratings of palatability, hunger, satiety, fullness and prospective consumption in either normal weight or overweight/obese women. Those who were overweight/obese reported lower levels of hunger and prospective consumptions before the meals and felt less full after the meals compared to normal weight subjects despite no difference in energy consumption between two groups,said Shah. This suggests that overweight/obese individuals may have a lower ability to sense hunger and fullness than normal weight adults. The findings were published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics in December. Newswise Source: Dick Jones Communications The findings were published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics in December. CONTACT: Meena Shah, m.shah@tcu.edu, 817-257-6871 (office) Fun Food Is your tummy growling? Are you faint with hunger? Why not make yourself something satisfying! With Williams-Sonoma Fun Food, youngsters age 8 and up can make a meal for the whole family -- and learn about cooking along the way. There are more than 25 scrumptious ideas inside! Please click on the above image for more information about this super kids book about food fun! Food Fun and Facts is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. So, please click on the links on my site to order from Amazon.com! The fees Food Fun and Facts earn help keep the website free for all! |
