Diet info

The low calorie diet

In short, low calorie diet says that if you plan to diet successfully, then you have to eat less calories than you burn up.

What is a calorie?
The calorie is the standard unit for energy measurement in dieting. The calorie is the the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree celsius. If a food contains more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when your body burns it.

Low calorie foods include green beans, swede, water melon, meals containing beef, and bamboo shoots.













Clam Chowder Recipe
Clam Chowder Category Seafood Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

25 ea Clams

1/2 c Water, boiling

1/2 lb Salt pork, finely chopped

6 ea Potato, diced

4 ea Onion, sliced

8 c Milk

3 T Flour

2 T Butter

1 t Salt

1/2 t Pepper

Scrub clam shells well to remove all sand. Lay in the bottom of a large kettle and cover with the boiling water. Cover the kettle and let steam about 15 minutes. Open the clams, saving all the liquor. Chop clams. Fry the pork about 5 minutes. Add the potatoes, onions and clam liquor, and cook about 15 minutes. Then add the clams and boil for 20 minutes. Melt the butter, add the flour and blend, stir in the milk and cook about 10 minutes. Add seasonings. Combine both mixtures and serve at once. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.

 
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