Friday, August 12, 2011

Diet-Friendly Desserts You Can Make With Jello

There are plenty of healthy dessert ideas which you can make with jello if you want something sweet but not too high in calories or fat. Jello itself is low in fat and sugar free jello, which tastes nearly identical to regular jello, is a great option if you are watching your waistline.

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If you are following a certain diet you can almost certainly incorporate jello into it. Whether you are following a low carb diet, a low fat diet or simply counting your calories, jello can help to satisfy your sweet tooth as well as fill you up. Nothing makes a diet worse than feeling deprived so if you fancy a tasty dessert you can make something tasty with jello and not feel guilty.

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The simplest ideas for diet friendly desserts with jello included layered jello, finger jello, fruit and jello and even jello salad recipes. Jello salad is a mixture of jello, fruit, nuts, marshmallows, cream and more but you can make a healthy version of this. Perhaps combine some sugar free jello with cottage cheese and your favorite fruit and nuts. Chopped mixed nuts and dried apricots would be tasty or chopped fresh apple and walnut halves.

Easy Jello Salad Recipes

Considering that jello salad is one of the easiest desserts to make, it is a great choice if you are on a diet. You can even make two jello salads - one for yourself to enjoy and one for the rest of the family who is not dieting.

Simply make up the jello, and then divide it between two bowls. Add cottage cheese, reduced fat cream cheese and anything else you fancy to yours and use Cool Whip or cream in the other one for anyone who prefers the full fat effect!

You might like to use jello pudding to make a chocolate mousse recipe or a pie recipe. These are not quite so figure friendly as the sugar free jello recipes so you might want to limit your portion sizes.

Recipe for Peach and Walnut Jello Salad

You can use any variety of sugar free jello to make this easy jello salad recipe. Feel free to alter the ingredients too. Jello salad recipes are easy to adapt. You can switch the walnuts for cashews, peanuts or chopped mixed nuts.

You can also swap the peach for apple, plum, banana or berries. This easy recipe serves four people and you will find the creaminess satisfying and the flavor delicious.

What you will need:
1 package sugar free jello, any flavor 8 oz cottage cheese 1 cup water 4 oz reduced fat cream cheese 4 oz walnut halves 1 very ripe peach, peeled and chopped
How to make it:

Boil the water and dissolve the jello powder in it. Put the jello in the refrigerator until it is partially set. Fold in the other ingredients and transfer the mixture to a serving bowl. Chill until completely set.

Diet-Friendly Desserts You Can Make With Jello

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