Recipes for Meals

Title: Orange Pineapple Smoothie
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 2

Pineapples offer a unique sweet taste that is great in smoothie mixes with other ingredients. Pineapples are also full of Vitamin C, omega-3 fatty acids, beta carotene and other nutrients as well.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh pineapple, fresh peeled and chopped
• ¾ cup ice cubes
• ¾ cup fresh orange juice
• Sugar to taste
• ½ cup whole milk

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Title: Lemonade with Mint
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 4

One of the most consumed soft drinks in Mexico are the Fresh Water, produced naturally in water, fruit, leaves or grains and sugar. It is very common to find street stalls selling fresh waters that carry large transparent containers allowing to observe the colorful, something very characteristic.

Ingredients:

• 5 lemons
• 1 l. water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Mint leaves

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Title: Mocha Shake
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 2

The following shake is a delicious Mocha recipe, perfect for a coffee/chocolate lovers. A very refreshing drink, perfect for summer days.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups chocolate-flavored milk
• 1 to 2 tablespoons of brewed coffee (regular or instant)
• 1/4 cup condensed milk
• 1 cup ice

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Title: Grape Juice
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 2

Grape juice has the same protective effect against heart disease as red wine. Red wine and certain types of grape juice have high levels of poly-phenols, which block the production of a protein linked to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Western countries.

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch of white grapes, black or red
• 1 cup water
• sugar to taste

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Title: Cold Oatmeal
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 6

Oatmeal is one of the most comprehensive grain. For their energy and nutrient qualities has been the staple food of peoples and civilizations eat the Scottish, Irish and some Asian mountain villages.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rolled oats
• 6 cups fresh water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 cloves
• Sugar to taste
• Milk to taste
• Ice to taste

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Title: Sugar-free Punch
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Level: Easy
Serving: 15

Punch is known to a wide variety of cocktails, alcoholic or not, often containing fruit or juice. Punch is typically served at parties and celebrations in large wide bowls known as punch bowls. In many Caribbean and Pacific countries, is taken as an aperitif before meals. This next  drink is sugar-free Punch, ideal for people with diabetes, is a sweet and refreshing fruity drink Perfect for Halloween Night.

Ingredients:

• 2 packages sugar-free strawberry gelatin
• 2 cups hot water
• 1/2 cup lemon juice, fresh
• 2 cups pineapple juice
• 12 packets sugar substitute
• 6 cups water, cold
• 2 liters sugar free 7-Up or diet ginger ale
• strawberries (to garnish)

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