Weight loss

The low-cal diet

Put simply, the low-cal diet depends on the fact that in order to diet successfully, the important thing to take in fewer calories than your body normally needs.

What is a calorie?
The calorie is the unit used for measuring the amount of energy in food. A food calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will will give you more energy when your body digests it.

Low-cal foods include brussels sprouts, bell pepper, apricot, steak and burger based meals, and low-fat cheese.










Fire Balls Recipe
Fire Balls Category Canning Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

14 lb Small green cherry tomatoes

4 Garlic cloves

4 Celery stalks

4 Hot red peppers

4 Heads dill

1 qt ;Water

1/2 c Pickling salt

2 qt White vinegar

Pack 3 1/2 lbs. cherry tomatoes in hot quart jars. To each quart, add a garlic clove, a celery stalk, a hot red pepper, and a head of dill. Combine water, pickling salt and vinegar. Boil. Fill jars to 1/2" from top. Process 10 minutes in boiling water bath. From Maggie Hennessey in _A Taste of West Virginia: A Book of Favorite Recipes_. Leawood, KS: Circulation Service, Inc., 1991. Pp. 10-11. Posted by Cathy Harned.

 
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