Roasted corn adds texture and flavor to guacamole.

Here’s an easy way to bake your own tortilla chips!

A low-fat snack alternative to cocktail nuts, these spicy beans also taste great tossed in salads.

Source: Chet’s Recipes 2 cups cooked chickpeas, drained well 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cumin 1/2 teaspoon coriander 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper This couldn’t be simpler to make, especially if you use the canned peas. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix the peas with the seasonings and spread them out evenly on a […]

Starchy vegetable are limited on the Eat to Live diet, but sometimes it can be hard to tell what’s starchy and what’s not. Here’s a list compiled by members of the Eat-2-Live Yahoogroup. Starchy/Limited: beets carrots (cooked) corn parsnips plantains potatoes pumpkin rutabaga salsify sweet potatoes turnips winter squash (butternut, acorn, and other winter varieties) […]

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Take a potato and slice it as thinly as possible (hard to do, but easier with a good knife). Then you spray a microwavable plate with non-stick spray, arrange the slices on it, not touching each other, and then microwave them until they start to turn brown around the edges (can take around 10 minutes, […]

Keep a supply of both of these on hand in the freezer to use for snacks or in recipes in place of nuts and seeds.

Chickpea Snack Submitted by: Shelley G. Chickpeas are such a great food. I like to mix canned chickpeas with lime juice, fresh cilantro, garlic, and cumin (or chili powder). It’s a great snack and makes a refreshing salad if you chill it and serve it with romaine lettuce and tomato wedges.

There are probably a dozen or more variations of baked oatmeal floating around the Internet and in various cookbooks. This is the variation I used.

My four year old daughter LOVED these. So did I, for that matter

I don’t like pumpkin pie made with tofu-no one ever suspects this one doesn’t have eggs. One caution-MAKE THIS THE DAY BEFORE SERVING. It’s needs a day to set really well, I find. This is a spicy filling.

Here’s a recipe I’ve used for pie crust. I have to warn you, though, that it will never fool anyone into thinking it’s “real” pie crust. It’s fairly simple:

I made the Gingerbread cookie recipe that I posted last week, and it was a qualified success. My husband, my daughter, and her five-year-old (non-vegetarian) friend all loved them; I thought they were okay. They had a somewhat chewy texture that most fatfree cookies seem to have, but I think they would have been better if I’d used pastry flour instead of regular whole wheat. The second batch came out better than the first because I overcooked the first ones a little. I made a couple of changes (like decreased the molasses and used agave nectar for part of it because I don’t like a really strong molasses taste) and I cut the recipe in half. Here’s my revised and tested version:

Combine dried fruit, water, sweetener in a large heavy saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, then remove from heat and let cool.