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Home > Blog > Goodbites: Black History Month

Goodbites: Black History Month

February 29, 2024

Celebrating Black/African American History through food – Greens with smoked turkey instead of pork and a healthy homemade corn bread.

February is Black History Month and Heart Month. Did you know that black Americans have a higher prevalence of stroke? To lower your risk of stoke, it is important to monitor your blood pressure and to reduce your salt and fat intake.

Today we are going to make some easy reduced fat and sugar cornbread muffins and banana pudding to compliment Balena’s greens.

Recipes

Corn Bread Muffins:

1 cup milk (2% or less)
1 cup buttermilk (2% of less)
2 extra large eggs
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 cups cornmeal
2/3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
 
1)     Heat oven to 425 degrees. Place muffin liners in pan
2)     In a large bowl whisk together milk, buttermilk, eggs, oil until well blended. Add cornmeal, flour sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour into muffin pan.
3)     Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Banana Pudding (Low fat)

1 package sugar free vanilla pudding milk
2 cups cold milk (2%)
12 ounces reduced fat cool whip
8 ounces Eagle Brand (reduced fat preferred)
1 tablespoon of Mexican Vanilla
Bananas
1 tablespoon of granulated sugar
Vanilla wafers
 
Mix pudding mix and milk with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Fold in 8 ounces of Eagle Brand. Fold in bananas, Mexican vanilla, and cool whip. Layer pudding and vanilla wafer mixture until bowl is full.

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Notice: The Travis County Healthcare District d/b/a Central Health adopted a tax rate that will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year’s tax rate. The tax rate will effectively be raised by 6.5 percent and will raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a $100,000 home by approximately $6.32 (six dollars and thirty-two cents).

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