Page 77 - Cook with Ease: Tips and Recipes for Small Families - Serving 1-2

Chapter 3
Cooking for One Recipes (one-dish meals)

NOTES FOR SPECIAL DIETS NUTRITION / PREPARATION TIPS
• Diabetic Diet: Exclude 1. Firm tofu is a good source of
sugar and cornstarch from protein and calcium, is easy to
the seasoning. Exchange 1 chew.
serving of carbohydrates for 2. To make it a vegetarian dish,
each serving of this dish.
replace minced meat with carrot
• Low-Fat / Low-Cholesterol strips and spring onion.
Diet: Exclude or reduce
the use of vegetable oil by 3. Prepare another vegetable dish for
the same meal as this dish contains
steamming instead of pan-fry.
insufficient vegetables.
•Low-Salt Diet: Reduce
the amount of salt in the
seasoning list to ⅟16 tsp.
• Low-Purine Diet: Exclude this
dish from the menu or reduce
the portion size, depending
on individual conditions.

EACH SERVING PROVIDES:

Meat, fish,
egg & alternatives:
3 taels (~120g)

77