Site Sponsor

Healthy Eating

Brown Rice and Black Beans

This easy-to-follow recipe is packed with protein and flavor. Brown rice and black beans serve as a meal in itself or as a delicious side dish. By sautéing the brown rice prior to adding the vegetable stock, you will enhance its flavor and increase its natural sweetness.

Get Recipe

Myth or Fact

Constipation is an old person’s condition.

Featured Video

Senokot® Tablets - Pharmacy

Yogurt-Bran Muffins

Ingredients:

1 cup bran cereal
2 egg whites or 1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 containers (6 oz each) fat-free vanilla yogurt
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup fresh raspberries or blueberries

Directions:

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Fill muffin pan with 12 paper muffin baking cups or grease each muffin cup with butter or butter-flavored spray oil. Using a meat mallet or rolling pin, crush bran cereal in a plastic food-storage bag.

In a bowl, stir together egg whites, oil and yogurt. Add cereal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt; stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Gently stir in berries. Fill each muffin cup about 3/4 full.

Bake 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan immediately.

More healthy recipes