Gingerbread Men from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Gingerbread Men from Healthy Diabetic Recipes
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If you are unsure whether this Gingerbread Men recipe is suitable for your personal diabetic diet, please consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionalist.



"A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die."
~ 'A Tramp Abroad', Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)


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Gingerbread Men Recipe


Recipe Ingredients:

2 cup Wholewheat flour
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Baking soda
2 cup Natural bran
3 tsp Ground ginger, or to taste
1 tsp Mixed spice (allspice?)
1 tsp Ground cinnamon
1/3 cup Margarine
6 tbsp Gran. sugar-free sweetener
1 Egg, beaten
3 tbsp Orange juice
1 tsp Margarine to grease

 

Recipe Instructions:

Heat oven to 350 F. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda,
bran and spices together, then rub in margarine until the mixture
resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Stir the sweetener into the egg and orange juice and beat into the
flour mixture. Knead well, and roll out thinly on floured board.
Using a cutter, cut into gingerbread men shapes (or other shapes) and
place on greased cookie sheets.

Bake for 15-20 min or until crisp and lightly browned. Cool on a
wire tray and store in an airtight container.

TOTAL RECIPE: 1690 cal, 160 g (16 units) carbohydrate, 63 g fiber,
47 g protein, 100 g fat.

Source: The Diabetics' Cookbook by Roberta Longstaff & Jim Mann 1984
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier Oct 93.

Servings: 1






“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
~ Doug Larson


 

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Important Note: This Gingerbread Men recipe was located in the public domain.It is suitable' for diabetics and low carb diets solely because someone, somewhere, decided to publish them as such. I am not qualified in medicine or nutrition, so please use your own common sense when deciding which are appropriate for your particular diet.

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This Gingerbread Men Recipe may also be ideal for anyone following the Atkins diet, or seeking to reduce their carbohydrate intake for other reasons.