English Muffin Pizza Melt Recipe

1 lb lean ground beef
1/4 cup onion, chopped
nonstick vegetable cooking spray
1 can pizza sauce, (8-oz)
1 tsp dried parsley flakes
1/2 tsp basil
1/4 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp mozzarella cheese, shredded
3 english muffins, split

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cook beef and onion in skillet coated with vegetable spray. Cook until meat
is no longer pink. Drain and dry with paper towels to reduce fat. Stir in
pizza sauce and seasonings.

Top each muffin with 1/6 cup beef mixture. You may toast muffins before
adding meat and cheese. Top with 1 teaspoon cheese.

Place in oven and bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until heated thoroughly and
cheese is melted.

Exchanges: All lunch menus this week have about 450 calories total and
include:

2-3 Starch servings 1-2 Meat or Meat Substitute servings 0-2 Vegetable
servings 1 Fruit serving 1 Fat serving

Total Fat -- 15g Total Carbohydrate -- 50g Protein -- 22g

Some menus have 1 Skim Milk serving instead of 1 Meat or 1 Starch serving.
Or 1 Starch serving instead of the Fruit serving.

Recipe for Friday, 3/6/98 This week we are featuring complete lunch menus
and accompanying recipes from the cookbook Magic Menus for People with
Diabetes, a calorie-controlled collection of the "best of" the
award-winning Month of Meals series of menu planners. You can order a copy
of this and many other cookbooks from our online bookstore or call
1-800-ADA-ORDER (1-800-232-6733).

Lunch: 1 cup chicken noodle soup 1 English Muffin Pizza Melt Tossed salad
with 2 Tbsp reduced-calorie dressing 1 pear

Copyright ? 1998 American Diabetes Association

MC Fortmatted and MC Busted by Barb at PK <abprice@wf.net>

NOTES : 6 servings/Serving size: 1/2 muffin plus 1/6 topping

Posted to RecipeLu List by "abprice@wf.net" <abprice@wf.net> on Mar 12,
1998.





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Contributor: American Diabetes Association

Preparation Time: 0:20

Serves: 1

Is this English Muffin Pizza Melt Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This English Muffin Pizza Melt recipe is one of our collection of tasty diabetic Beef recipes. As we know nothing about your precise health problems and the advice your doctor has given you, we cannot say with certainty that this English Muffin Pizza Melt recipe is acceptable for you. All the same, as the original author labeled it as `diabetic` it should indicate that it at least meets the basic precondition for the label `diabetic`, being low in carbohydrates & fat, and so should be more healthy than a typical non-diabetic recipe. Nevertheless, this English Muffin Pizza Melt recipe should only be used if you understand your own condition and are happy that the ingredients are suitable for you.

This English Muffin Pizza Melt Recipe is one from the diabetic Beef recipes category. Clearly, it is hardly possible for us to hand check every single one of the diabetic Beef recipes to make sure that all the recipes are completely OK for people with diabetes. There are in excess of two thousand diabetic recipes listed, & to cook each of them at one recipe per day would occupy us for as long as 290 weeks. It would be wise to read the recipe ingredients with due care to ensure that they comply with the diabetes nutritional guidelines your doctor has given you. In the event that you suspect that this English Muffin Pizza Melt recipe is unsuitable, please let us know & we will delete the recipe concerned from the recipe site.

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