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Crockpot Beef Tips With Zip and for Dessert Try Banana Split Cake Suitable for Diabetics

For the busy family on the go, or just the cook with little time for making nutrious meals, Beef Tips with Zip are perfect for you.  Bring out the crockpot or slowcooker and take full advantage of its benefits.  This recipe is easy to toss into the crockpot in the morning and ready when you get home.  The surprise "zip" ingredient adds a surprising flavor as well as tenderizes the meat.  Everyone will want to know why your beef tips are different than the ones they've had in the past!  Serve over brown rice or no-yolk egg noodles.  Add a salad, then finish off the meal with our Banana-Split cake that is diabetic friendly. 

BEEF TIPS WITH ZIP!

2 lbs beef stew meat

2 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced

1 can low-fat cream of mushroom soup, undiluted

1 envelope dry onion soup mix

1 cup sugar-free lemon-lime soda

Turn slow-cooker on low.  Place meat and mushrooms in cooker.  In a mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients until well blended and pour over meat and mushrooms.  Put cover on slow cooker and cook on low approximately 8 hours.

Serve over brown rice or no-yolk egg noodles.

Note:  Without the rice or noodles, there are almost 3 times as many proteins as carbs.  This allows you to have the rice or noodles.  Serve with a salad that has kidney beans or garbonza beans added.

BANANA SPLIT CAKE

Crust:  2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1 stick unsalted butter, melted

Filling:  3 small pkgs sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix

3 cans fat-free evaporated milk

Topping:  2 medium bananas, sliced

1 large can crushed pineapple in its own juice

1 carton sugar-free whipped topping

3 tbsp chopped walnuts or pecans

3 tbsp sugar-free chocolate syrup (I recommend Russel Stover brand)

Mix pudding and milk together until thickened.  Chill in the refrigerator while making the crust.  To make crust, mix graham crackers and butter together and press onto the bottom of a 9 x 13-inch pan.  Remove filling from refrigerator and spread over top of crust.  Add topping ingredients one at a time in the order listed.  Refrigerate until serving time.  If you really want to dress up your cake and you aren't concerned about the little extra bit of sugar, top each piece with a maraschino cherry before serving.

Enjoy!

 

About the Author

For more of Linda's diabetic recipes and information, visit her website at http://diabeticenjoyingfood.squarespace.com She also shares her vintage recipe collection at grandmasvintagerecipes.blogspot.com

How to fix a zip on a bag?

I have a nice new Oakley bag and after a few months I kinda filled it with too much stuff and one part of the zip has come off one part of the runners bit?

Anyone have any ideas on how I can make it so that the zip is on both runners?

The only idea I came up with was pulling the two bits apart and the closing them again so that they were on both runners?

What you did is about the only thing you can do, other than replacing the zipper.
Good Luck

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