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The Recipe Instructions |
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Ingredients
2 cup water
2 cup Minute white rice, uncooked
8 Kraft 2% milk singles process
cheese food with added calcium
Directions
Bring water to boil. Stir in rice and process cheese food.
Cook and stir until process cheese food melts; cover. Remove from heat.
Let stand 5 to 7 minutes or until creamy. Stir.
This recipe yields 6 servings. Serving size: 1/6 recipe.
Exchanges Per Serving: 1 1/2 Starch, 1 Lean Meat.
Nutrition Facts: Calories 180; Total Fat 4.5g; Saturated Fat 2.5g;
Cholesterol 15mg; Sodium 390mg; Carbohydrate 26g; Dietary Fiber 0g;
Sugars 1g; Protein 8g.
Source:
"American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org"
S(Formatted for MC6):
"09-23-2002 by Joe Comiskey - jcomiskey@krypto.net"
Copyright:
"© American Diabetes Association, 2000"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 0 Calories; 0g Fat (0.0% calories
from fat); 0g Protein; 0g Carbohydrate; 0g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
2mg Sodium. Exchanges: .
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0
Contributor: n/a
Preparation Time: 0:00
Servings: 6
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