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April 18, 2005
Calcium Delivery Vehicle
Today has been a good CR day, which is a good thing, since I didn't do very well over the weekend.
I decided that if I stayed on the straight and narrow all day today I'd reward myself by printing out MR's most recent article and reading it before bed. This is one of my favorite treats, leftover from my days of obsessive archive searching.
I returned to one of my favorite calcium delivery vehicles, nonfat plain yogurt, today. I have a way of fixing it that makes it taste almost Indian. I take a cup of nonfat plain yogurt, add the juice of one half a lemon (don't use bottled lemon juice, it doesn't work) and stir in a shake of garlic powder and a shake of half-salt. It's also very good with a little curry or cumin or cayenne added. Then I often add a chopped vegetable, like today I put in a red bell pepper. A delicious, cool summer salad. It's great with cucumbers too.
I hope you decide to give the plain yogurt dish a try. It's a great way to jazz up some chopped cold veggies, and the yogurt is 110 calories per cup, with 40% of the RDA of calcium. Hard to beat that. Unless you're eating fat free ricotta, and who can do that every day?
I'll put in the crunch after dinner.
Posted by april at April 18, 2005 3:39 PM