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Meatloaf Turkey

Turkey Meatloaf


Turkey meatloaf has 25 percent less fat, 60 percent less saturated fat, and less calories than traditional beef and pork meatloaf. Turkey meatloaf is delicious for lunch, dinner and sandwiches or added to soups like lentil and split pea. Both meals pictured have about 500 calories. Less than many retauarant ...

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Homemade Shrimp Curry

Mild Yellow Shrimp Curry

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Curries originated in the Indian sub-continent. Like most hot to spicy foods, curries retarded spoilage and covered the off-flavors of ingredients. Curries can be mild or very hot depending on the amount and type of chilis used. Mild Yellow Shrimp Curry is a mild curry that is ideal for shrimp, other ...

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Homemade Spinach Lasagna

No-Boil Vegetable Lasagna


No-Boil Vegetable Lasagna is an easy way to reduce the number of calories and saturated fat while increasing dietary fiber compared to lasagna with ricotta cheese. Dry lasagna noodles come in two varieties: traditional that should be cooked before making the lasagna and no-boil that is used dry and doesn’t require cooking. ...

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Homemade Turkey Burger

Turkey Burgers

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Turkey Burgers are a moist, reduced calorie and saturated fat alternative to ground beef burgers. This turkey burger recipe has about 28 percent less calories than a 1/4 pound, 80% lean, ground beef burger and half the saturated (4g vs. 8g). Consuming red meat has been linked to increased risk ...

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Cod and Green Onion Calzone

Dough for 2-Crust Pie

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Dough for 2-Crust Pie makes a flakey, golden brown, pie crust essential for great savory and fruit pies.  This recipe makes enough dough for a 9 to 10 inch 2-crust pie or for two 1-crust pies. Calories Pie crusts, especially for 2-crust pies, is a major source of a pies ...

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Homemade Panzarotti

Panzarotti, Calzones, Fried Bread & Sopapillas


The same basic stand mixer bread dough used to make loaf bread and focaccia can be used to make deep fried southern Italian panzarotti (spelled panzerotti in Italian). An uncle first introduced me to panzarotti in 1968. At first I thought it was an oversized warm doughnut. After taking a ...

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Homemade Deluxe Chicken Pie

Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie

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Don’t let the long list of ingredients for Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie intimidate you. About half are herbs and spices and all ingredients are natural not dozens of chemical additives and preservative like most frozen pot pies. Deluxe Chicken or Turkey Pie is perfect for leftover dark turkey meat ...

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Turkey Chili

Spicy Turkey Chili Recipe

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If you love chili but are concerned about using high saturated fat beef you can easily substitute ground turkey for all or part of the beef. Chili powder and other spices gives chili it unique flavor. Most beef eaters will not notice the difference. I use 93% lean ground turkey that ...

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Steamed Green Beans

Italian Style Vegetables


Southern Italian cooking is rustic, home cooking using simple, high quality ingredients. At it’s simplest this recipe has 5 ingredients; vegetable, salt, olive oil, garlic, and black pepper. When make with green beans, it is a low calorie alternate to green bean casserole. This simple Italian Style Vegetable recipe can ...

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Homemade Italian Pizza Fresca

Simple Homemade Tomato and Olive Pizza


Americans love pizza. They love it so much, many diet gurus advocate eliminating pizza from the diet of Americans overweight and obese. The reasons are simple. Too much dough made using white flour and too much high calorie, high sodium cheese and meat. Usually, the meat, like pepperoni, is highly ...

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