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AndiatBettyCrocker 11/4/2009 10:33:00 AM
Cheesecake Pancakes—REALLY? Members of our staff read about them on the Bettycrocker.com message boards and from the comments on the boards, we learned that they are a new item on the menu at a popular pancake restaurant. They sounded so good to us, we decided to develop our own&nbs...
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Bisquick, Developing recipes in a test kitchen, Betty Crocker Kitchens, Cheesecake Pancakes, IHOP
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CheriAtBettyCrocker 6/30/2009 4:10:00 PM
Fiber has a very important role in a healthy diet and in helping manage diabetes. Fiber provides a sense of fullness without the calories and satisfies your appetite without affecting blood glucose levels. And yet, many people do not get enough fiber. Experts recommend at least 25 grams of fiber per day. What's more, if you eat a food with 5 or more grams of fiber, you can subtract the fiber grams from the total grams of carbohydrate in the food. Choosing foods high in fiber will make sticking to your diabetes or weight loss plan much easier, because you'll feel more full. Add fiber in these ten, tasty ways:
1. Introd...
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Apple-Honey Cereal Bars, Betty Crocker Kitchens, Boost Your Fiber, Creamy Key Lime Pie, diabetes
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CheriAtBettyCrocker 4/1/2009 3:15:00 PM
Calling all cinnamon-lovers....there is a new cinnamon cereal you'll want to know about. It's Cinnamon Chex® and has a terrific cinnamon taste, the best of any product I've tasted. (I'm very picky when it comes to my favorite flavor, cinnamon) And, the crunch that only Chex can provide is perfect with the cinnamon. The cereal is great with skim milk for breakfast first thing in the morning or anytime of day. (eating it straight from the box as a snack is my son Christian's favorite way to consume it).
In the Betty Crocker Kitchens, we recently had the pleasure of developing recipes with new Cinnamon Chex. Cinna...
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Betty Crocker Kitchens, kids' favorites, Snickerdoodle Chex Mix, teens' favorites
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CheriAtBettyCrocker 3/16/2009 2:05:00 PM
Consumers have a hard time getting Quick & Easy, (let alone Healthy) dinners on the table that their kids will eat these days. (Heck, it's hard for me to do and I know about food and where to find the recipes.) That's why I wasn't surprised when our latest cooking class, "Quick Fix Healthy Meals" filled up within minutes. I teamed up with my dietitian friend, Maureen Doran, to teach the class. We work well together, I talk about the food and she talks about the nutrition, although at times we interject themes from each others' world, as we've been doing this for a while. The General Mills Wellness Committee sponsored the class--I'm an active comm...
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Betty Crocker 30-Minute Meals for Diabetes, Betty Crocker Health Heart Cookbook, Betty Crocker Kitchens, Betty Crocker Quick & Easy Cookbook, Betty Crocker Whole Grains Cookbook, Betty Crocker Win at Weight Loss Cookbook, Corn Chex®, Corn Crusted Fish Fillets, kids' favorites, Lemon Chicken with Tomatoes and Couscous, Lentil-Tofu Soup, Quinoa with Black Beans, Saucy Raspberry Rhubarb, teens, whole grains
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CheriAtBettyCrocker 3/10/2009 4:10:00 PM
How much fiber do you need every day? At least 25 grams for a healthy diet, experts say. Who knew? Fiber One® folks knew, since the Original Bran Cereal contains 14 grams per 1/2 cup. (I'm a daily Fiber One® user, have been for a very long time.) Do you know how much fiber you eat every day?
Fiber One® recently rolled out many new, great-tasting cereals, chewy bars, toaster pastries, yogurt and even cottage cheese, all in an effort to get us to eat more fiber. And now, there's an interactive web site and online game that puts fiber in the spotlight and players’ fiber expertise to the test by playing the Fiber One® Fiber Frie...
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Betty Crocker Kitchens, Fiber One Honey Clusters cereal, Fiber One chewy bars, Fiber One Original bran cereal, Fiber One Toaster pastries, Yoplait Fiber One yogurt
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CheriAtBettyCrocker 3/5/2009 1:11:00 PM
Last week I taught an evening cooking class in the Betty Crocker Kitchens. Instead of a demo, we tried a hands-on class where participants prepared recipes, asked questions, learned new techniques and sampled all of the recipes. 16 women signed up, all wanting to cook more healthy. They were employees, Moms, daughters or friends of employees. (Not many people get to cook in the BCK, so they knew from the start that this was something special.)
All 10 recipes were hand-picked from my favorite cookbook, Betty Crocker Cookbook for...
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Yoplait yogurt, Baked Coconut Shrimp, Betty Crocker Cookbook for Women, Betty Crocker Kitchens, Chocolate Chip-Cherry Scones, Red harvest Quinoa, Three-Seed Flatbread
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Heidi at Betty Crocker 8/20/2008 3:50:00 PM
A while back I went to something called “Sensory Training for the Betty Crocker Kitchens.” I had no idea what to expect.
What I found was a room filled with several long tables. At each “place setting” (for lack of a better word), there were numerous little plastic cups and glass bottles. Some of the cups had labels identifying what they were: “Sweet,” “Sour,” “Salty,” “Bitter,” ...
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Heidi at Betty Crocker 8/13/2008 10:14:00 AM
Today we had a potluck in the Betty Crocker Kitchens. You may remember me writing about a potluck back in December. Usually it’s a once-a-year deal and people get really excited and make tons of food. Last December there was so much food that someone decided we needed to break the event into two separate seasons. What do you expect when you get a bunch of foodies together?
Every year I swear I’m going to participate and every year I fail miserably. Luckily the women in ...
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Heidi at Betty Crocker 1/16/2008 12:52:00 PM
We had a potluck today in the Betty Crocker Kitchens. To say there was a lot of food to choose from is an understatement. Selections included, but were not limited to: Roast turkey, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, pear and greens salad, seven-layer salad, pasta salad, quinoa salad, fresh fruit salad, roast beef and broccoli roll-ups, pumpkin bread, root vegetables, glazed ham balls, zesty tomato soup, feta-yogurt dip with veggies and cheese and crackers. Don’t even get me start on the dessert options. Here's just a glimpse of what my lunch was like:
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Heidi at Betty Crocker 11/9/2007 1:48:00 PM
At 3:13 this afternoon, I got an email with the subject line: "Warm and gooey brownies in the kitchen." Not one to turn away a brownie, I went down to the kitchens to get one. I wasn’t back at my desk more than 10 minutes before I received another email. This one said "Cheesecake now!" This is my job, folks. Seriously.
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