Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake Recipe

nonstick vegetable cooking spray
1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
16 oz low-fat cream cheese
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup egg substitute
1 3/4 cup plain yogurt cheese, yogurt drained in - cheesecloth until - semisolid, up to 2
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp grated lemon peel
1 tbsp lemon juice
sliced oranges, and/or for garnish
strawberries, and/or for garnish
kiwifruit, for garnish

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9-inch springform pan with vegetable spray
and sprinkle bottom with graham cracker crumbs. Refrigerate.

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually add sugar,
beating until smooth. Add remaining ingredients except fruit and beat until
smooth. Pour into pan.

Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until edges are set. (To minimize cracking, place
a shallow pan half full of hot water on lower oven rack while baking.)

Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. Remove sides of pan and
refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. Top with fruit just before serving.

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 Sunday, 3/8/98 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 serving Shrimp and Pea Salad 2 4-inch bread sticks 1 slice Low-Fat
Lemon Cheesecake

Copyright ? 1998 American Diabetes Association

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

NOTES : 16 slices/Serving size: 1 slice

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 Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake Recipe Suitable for Diabetics?

This Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake recipe is part of our category which lists diabetic Cheesecake recipes. Because we don`t know your exact diabetic issues and the advice your health advisors have given to you, we can`t say for sure that this Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake recipe is safe for you. However, as the recipe author designated it as `diabetic` it suggest that it, if nothing else, complies with the minimum precondition for the label `diabetic`, being low in carbs & fat, and consequently should be better for your health than a standard recipe. Even taking that into consideration, this Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake recipe must only be used if you understand your own condition and are happy that the ingredients are safe for you.

This Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake Recipe comes from our diabetic Cheesecake recipes category. Clearly, it is totally unfeasible for us to prepare every one of the diabetic Cheesecake recipes to make certain that they are all totally modified for diabetics. Our site has more than two thousand recipes in it, & to prepare every one of them even at one every 24 hours would take more than 290 weeks. Our advice is to check the ingredients to make sure that they agree with the diabetes nutritional guidelines your doctors have given you. In the event that you think that this Low-Fat Lemon Cheesecake recipe is incorrect, please contact us and we will modify or remove the offending recipe from our diabetic recipe collection.

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