www.matthewsfriends.org RECIPES IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS! Classical Christmas Muffins • Ground Almonds (you could use a mix of Ground Almonds and Ketocal) • Egg • Butter … Sugar Free Flavouring - i.e. vanilla essence• Cranberries• Small pinch of mixed spice Whisk all ingredients together, EXCEPT THE CRANBERRIES. Put your mix in the case then the put the weighed out cranberries on top and bake in a moderate oven as you would a normal sponge cake, until firm to the touch. Tips: a. Using a mix of ground almonds and …

RECIPES IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS! Classical Christmas Muffins • Ground Almonds (you could use a mix of Ground Almonds and Ketocal) • Egg • Butter • Sweetener • Sugar Free Flavouring - i.e. vanilla essence • Cranberries • Small pinch of mixed spice Whisk all ingredients together, EXCEPT THE CRANBERRIES. Put your mix in the case then the put the weighed out cranberries on top and bake in a moderate oven as you would a normal sponge cake, until firm to the touch. Tips: a. Using a mix of ground almonds and ketocal gives an extra lightness to the mix and if you use the Vanilla Ketocal - also helps give a lovely flavour. b. If you have a lot of egg in the mix, which is making the cake more like a batter mixture, then you could replace some of the egg with a protein powder (your dietitian can recommend this)…. Christmas Cookies! • Ground Almonds (or mix of ground almonds and ketocal) • Coconut oil or butter (using butter will make them more crumbly) • Egg • Desiccated coconut • Pinch of mixed spice You can have different flavours if you want to use other sugar free flavourings and essences. For example, you can calculate in some cocoa powder and also use come orange essence for a ‘chocolate orange’ cookie! Mix all the ingredients together until they are well combined. Divide into the number of cookies you want, put them onto baking parchment on a baking tray and bake for 10 minutes at about 180°C. Some of the fat WILL seep out. Don’t worry. Leave them on the baking parchment to cool and move them gently back and forth to absorb the fat back in. You can also use When they are completely cool, wrap in small squares of foil and freeze in sealed freezer bag. Tips: Calculate out the amounts for a whole meal once again and then divide equally into however many cookies you can. I would suggest 2 or 4 cookies per ‘meal’ (depending on how much quantity you have to play with). You can then use a cookie as the pudding part of a meal - confused? Let us give you an example: 4 cookies = 1 complete meal. Therefore 1 cookie = ¼ of a complete meal. So a Christmas Day Dinner COULD look like this:

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