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Make It Your Way

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Any of The UnDiet Fruit Smoothie recipes can be made into ice-cream, popsicles, gelato or slushies.

Ice-cream: Any of the Fruit shake and smoothie recipes can be served as a mock ice-cream or sorbet simply by using all frozen Fruits, or a mix of fresh and frozen Fruits and reducing the amount of liquid to just enough to puree the Fruit. Serve immediately or store in an airtight container in the freezer. You could also simply pour the smoothie into an ice-cream maker.

Popsicle: After pouring the Fruit shake or smoothie into a popsicle mold, cover with plastic wrap, then poke a popsicle stick through the center of the plastic wrap. The plastic wrap will help to hold the stick in place while the popsicle freezes solid.

Gelato: Pour pureed smoothie into flat metal or plastic pan. Don’t use glass as glass placed in the freezer can crack. Place the pan in the freezer. After 30 minutes remove from freezer and scrape with a fork to break up any frozen bits. Place back in the freezer and repeat the scraping process every 30 minutes until smoothie is completely frozen and fluffy. Serve immediately. If you serve it later you will need to let it sit out for about 30 minutes and scrape and stir with a fork to re-fluff the gelato.

Slushy: Use frozen versions of some of the ingredients to make your Fruit shake thick and cold.

Beverages Recipes

Raspberry Slush

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Put 2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries into a strainer set over a large glass pitcher. It must be glass because you’ll be pouring 1/2 cup boiling water over the raspberries. Press berries with a spoon until all juice has been released. Discard pulp. Yes, discard it. It’s full of seeds and not any fun to eat. Do the same with 3 cups fresh or frozen cranberries over the same pitcher. Refrigerate pitcher.

When juice is chilled pour into a blender and with blender running add 1 cup of ice cubes one cube at a time. When mixture is slushy, pour into a pitcher or punch bowl. Slowly stir in one chilled can of sugar-free lemon-lime carbonated soda or water.

Beverages Recipes

Pineapple Kick

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Over a blender bowl press one 5 inch piece of peeled, finely chopped fresh ginger through a garlic press, working in batches until you’ve extracted the ginger juice or use 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger. Add and puree.

3 cups fresh pineapple, chopped
1 cup fresh orange juice
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped

Keep blender running and add 1 more cup of fresh orange juice.

Beverages Guidelines

UnDiet Your Beverages

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Often when someone decides to change their diet either to get healthy or to lose weight they forget about their beverages. So here’s a quick checklist for getting your beverages to match up with your new eating plan.

Go through your beverages and eliminate any that contain:

  • Caffeine – don’t forget that many diet sodas have caffeine. Caffeine has the same insulin-stimulating, weight-loss-inhibiting effect as aspartame.
  • Sweeteners: Aspartame, Nutrasweet, high fructose corn syrup, refined sugar, sucrose, corn syrup or corn syrup product and dextros.

Read labels! I had been drinking this delicious fruit-flavored mineral water for some time when I looked at the label and was horrified to find that it contained high fructose corn sweetener! What can you drink? While plain water would be ideal sometimes you want a little variety – especially when you’re trying to drink half your body weight in ounces. So to make it easier for you to get your beverage on check out some of the suggestions below to add some excitement to your water:

  • water with a squeeze of lemon, lime, orange or grapefruit juice
  • herbal teas, hot or iced
  • vegetable juice (be careful of the sodium content in store-bought juices)
  • hot vegetable broth
  • Stevia is an excellent choice for a natural sweetener in your beverages. Some people (myself included) think it has a bit of a bitter after-taste. Liquid stevia generally has less additives than powdered stevia. Read your labels!
  • Monk fruit is another natural sweetener which like stevia has 0 carbs and 0 calories and less of an after-taste. The problem with monk fruit is that it’s difficult to find pure monk fruit. Skinny Girl Monk Fruit Extract Liquid Sweetener, Monk Fruit in the Raw and Monk Fruit to Go have 0 carbs and few to 0 additives.