Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 1/2 c Sliced canned / cooked beets
1 Bay leaf
4 Whole cloves
4 Whole allspice
1 sm Grapefruit
1 pk Equal sweetener (2 tsp)

Drain the liquid from the canned beets, reserving 1/2 cup. (Use water
with fresh beets.) Combine the 1/2 cup beet liquid, bay leaf, cloves
and allspice in a small saucepan. Heat to boiling. Lower the heat and
simmer for 5 minutes.

Section the grapefruit. Remove the spices from the liquid and pour
over the beet slices and grapefruit sections. Add the sweetener.
Marinate for at least 1 hour before serving. Drain off the liquid
before serving.

1/2 recipe - 86 calories, 1/2 fruit exchange, 2 vegetable exchanges 21
grams carbohydrate, 2 grams protein, 0 fat 302 mg sodium, 380 mg
potassium, 0 cholesterol

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman, 1986
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

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