Diet Tips and Fitness Advice

Do you think creative apple recipes are easy to find? I don’t think so. Finding healthy ones is even more difficult. Here are tested and proven apple recipes which may help you prepare delicious diet meals.

You can cook easy diet recipes using apples

Apple Coleslaw

Serving Size: 1/2 cup

Yield: 4 servings

Calories: 60

Ingredients:

2 cups of cabbage, 1 grated carrot, 1 chopped green pepper, 1 chopped apple, 5 tablespoons of light yoghurt, 1 tablespoon of light mayonnaise, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon dill weed.

Instructions:

Take washed cabbage. Cut it into slim shreds until you have 2 cups of cabbage. Peel the carrot and grate it. Chop a green pepper into small pieces. Remove the core and chop the apple. Put the cabbage, carrot, green pepper and apple in a large mixing bowl and stir them. Put the yoghurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice and dill weed in a small bowl and stir them to make the sauce. Pour the sauce over the salad. Toss to mix.

Work some apple juice into your meals

Apple Tuna Sandwiches

Serving Size: 1 sandwich

Yield: 3 servings

Calories: 250

Ingredients:
1 can (6.5 ounces) drained tuna, 1 apple, 1/4 cup of yoghurt, low fat vanilla, 1 teaspoon mustard, 1 teaspoon honey, 6 slices of whole wheat bread, 3 lettuce leaves.

Instructions:

Peel the washed apple. Chop it into small pieces. Put the tuna, apple, yoghurt, mustard and honey in a medium bowl and stir well. Spread 1/2 cup of the tuna mix onto each 3 slices of bread. Top each sandwich with a washed lettuce leaf and a slice of bread.

Treat apple as your best diet friend

Apple Slice Pancakes

Serving Size: 2 pancakes

Yield: 6 servings

Calories: 150

Ingredients:

1 Granny Smith apple, 1 1/4 cup any type pancake mix, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons canola oil, 1 cup light milk.

Instructions:

Lightly coat a skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Peel, remove the core and thinly slice apple into rings. Combine ingredients for pancake batter in a large mixing bowl. Stir until ingredients are evenly moist. For each pancake, place one apple ring on griddle and pour about 1/4 cup batter over apple ring, starting in the center and covering the apple. Cook until bubbles appear. Turn and cook other side until lightly brown.

Remember, not all of the apple recipes are healthy

Fat-Free Apple Crumb Dessert

Serving Size: 1/4 of recipe

Yield: 4 servings

Calories: 170

Ingredients:

4 baking apples, 1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal, quick-cooking 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 1/3 cup apple juice, nonstick cooking spray.

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray the bottom and sides of a 9″ square baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Peel the washed apples and cut them into thin slices. Spread the apple slices evenly over the bottom of the baking dish. In a small bowl mix the oatmeal, brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread the oatmeal mix evenly over the apples in the baking dish. Lightly pour the apple juice over the oatmeal mixture.