The Soda Fountain Gets a Makeover

What screams "ice cream social" or "American soda fountain favorite" more than a root beer float? With the awesome light vanilla ice creams out now and a couple of diet root beer sodas on the supermarket shelves, a totally cool but low cal root beer float is only a minute away. Here's how to put one together for only 100 Calories!

The 100-Calorie Root Beer Float

Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup (ice cold) diet root beer
1/2 cup scoop of light vanilla ice cream or low fat frozen yogurt

Directions:

1. Pour ice cold diet root beer into a tall mug or glass (ice cold root beer so the vanilla ice cream won't melt as quickly).
2. Plop in a scoop of light vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt into the glass. Serve with a long spoon and/or a straw.

Yield: Makes 1 serving

Per serving: 100 calories, 2 g protein, 17 g carbohydrate, 3 g fat, 1.5 g
saturated fat, 10 mg cholesterol, 0 g fiber, 90 mg sodium. Calories from
fat: 27 percent calories from fat.

~~Elaine

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• Frozen Treats Pack Calories
• Cool Summer Treats That Won't Wreck Your Diet

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Heaven, I'm in Heaven: Lemon Cream Spread

I have no idea why the thought popped into my head this morning to blend some lemon curd with some Take Control margarine, but I've learned to roll with these random food thoughts.

I toasted a slice of honey oat bread from my bread machine and spread some of this lemon cream spread on it and suddenly my taste buds were singing!

Just in case you have these two ingredients in your refrigerator and some whole grain toast that needs to be dressed up a little, here's the recipe.

Lemon Cream Spread

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons Take Control Margarine (Promise), with 8 grams fat per tablespoon
2 tablespoons lemon curd (available in jars)

Directions:
1. Add margarine and lemon curd to small custard cup and stir together until blended.
2. Spread on toast or muffins!

Yield: 4 servings
Nutritional Analysis per serving: 85 calories, 0 g protein, 9 g carbohydrate, 5.5 g fat, 1.5 g saturated fat, 1.5 g monounsaturated fat, 2.3 g polyunsaturated fat, 15 mg cholesterol, 0 g fiber, 50 mg sodium.
Calories from fat: 55 percent (not including the toast).

~~Elaine

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