Recipe - Sliced Beet Salad

1 One half cup Sliced canned / cooked beets
1 Bay leaf
4 Whole cloves
4 Whole allspice
1 small Grapefruit
1 pack Equal sweetener (2 tsp)

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving One half cup. (Use
water with fresh beets.) Combine the One half cup beet liquid, bay leaf,
cloves and allspice in a small saucepan. Heat to boiling. Lower the
heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

Section the grapefruit. Remove the spices from the liquid and pour
over the beet slices and grapefruit sections. Add the sweetener.
Marinate for at least 1 hour before serving. Drain off the liquid
before serving.

One half recipe 86 calories, One half fruit exchange, 2 vegetable exchanges 21
grams carbohydrate, 2 grams protein, 0 fat 302 mg sodium, 380 mg
potassium, 0 cholesterol

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

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