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Sweet pickled beets

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Chilling time: 4 hours

1 can (15 ounces) shoestring cut beets, drained
1/4 cup finely diced onion
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 tablespoons Splenda, No Calorie Sweetener, granular
1 tablespoon water
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon dried dill
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Combine all ingredients in a nonplastic mixing bowl (beet juice may stain some plastics). Stir and cover. Chill 4 hours.

Yield: 4 servings
Serving size: 1/2 cup

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:
  Calories: 48
  Carbohydrate: 9 g
  Protein: 1 g
  Fat: 0 g
  Saturated fat: 0 g
  Cholesterol: 0 mg
  Sodium: 219 mg
  Fiber: 1 g
 
Exchanges per serving: 2 vegetable
Carbohydrate choices: 1/2

 

  
Kathleen Stanley is a Diabetes Educator at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. She is coauthor of Quick & Easy Diabetic Recipes for One, published by the American Diabetes Association in 2007.

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