A biscuit with berries or fruit is a delicious open pie with fruit filling. Any seasonal berries and fruits will be suitable as a filling.

Ingredients:

• flour – 170 g
• cold butter – 120 g
• cold water – 60 ml
• salt – a pinch
• sugar – 5 g

For the pie filling:

• fruits or berries – to your taste
• sugar – 1 tbsp
• powdered sugar – optional (for topping)
• 2 yolks for grease the sides of the pie
• 1 tbsp milk or water

Recipe:

1. Mix flour with sugar and salt.
2. In a food processor, mix the flour with the butter. Gradually add cold water. Knead the dough.
3. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. At this time, do the stuffing: wash the fruit or berries, cut if necessary.
5. Divide the dough into 2 parts and roll out into a cake about 3 mm thick.
6. Put the cakes to a baking sheet greased with oil or lined with baking paper.
7. In the center of the cake layers out the fruit or berries, distributing on the surface and leaving 2 cm from the edges. Sprinkle the filling with sugar. You can add or reduce the amount of sugar at your discretion.
8. Wrap the free edges of the cakes on the filling, forming the sides of a round biscuit.
9. Grease the sides of the biscuit with egg yolks diluted in a spoonful of milk or water.
10. Put the biscuit with fruit in a preheated oven to 180°C and bake until golden brown, about 30-35 minutes.
11. The finished biscuit should cool. Sprinkle it with powdered sugar and serve.
12. Enjoy!

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Eating too much sugar means that we consume too many calories. If we do not use them, they are transferred to the fat reserve, which leads to an increase in weight. If this happens at an early age, then the probability that the child will save excess weight in adulthood is very high.

Let’s see how much free sugar children can consume, and is it really so dangerous for an excessive amount of health?

Naturally, a small amount of sugar in the child’s diet may be present, but foods and drinks containing it should be minimized in the child’s diet. Foods with a high level of sugar, as a rule, contain less vitamins and minerals, so they should not replace high-grade foods necessary for normal growth and development of children.

How to reduce sugar intake:

1. Replace high-sugar breakfast cereals with more dietary cereal, cereal toast, bagels, plain fruit yogurt, or berries porridge. Make it a rule to read the labels before you buy and avoid foods high in sugar. Come up with tasty alternatives to sweet breakfasts, for example, a bright omelet with vegetables or unsweetened toast.

2. Replace sweets for tea with cereal bun, nuts, bread sticks, fruit bars, banana, cheese, dried fruit.

3. Refuse carbonated drinks. Instead, go to seasonal fruit or dried fruit compotes, plain water, cold tea.

4. Learn to bake without adding sugar (instead, you can add, for example, dates chopped into a paste). Homemade cakes or fruit in jelly will be a healthy alternative to purchased sweets.

5. Involve children in cooking. If they helped to cook something, then the likelihood that they will eat the fruits of their own labors, increases significantly.

6. Children copy the behavior of adults, so become an example to follow. If they see how you constantly and with pleasure cook and eat healthy food, they will imitate you in this.

The main advice: to reduce the use of sugar is not easy, but possible. Encourage children to choose healthy foods and eat healthier drinks, eat more fruits, vegetables, and foods that contain fiber. Also a prerequisite for maintaining health at the proper level is daily physical activity, which should not be forgotten.

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Even during a diet, you can please yourself with something delicious. We will tell you what desserts will not harm your figure.

We are all more or less sweet tooth, and it is important to remember that the love of sweets is not a bad habit, but a biological need, experts say. Glucose is the fuel necessary for normal operation of all organs. In addition, it plays an important role in the development of serotonin, which is responsible for a good mood. So do not deny yourself the pleasure – just remember, everything is fine in moderation.

Quality marshmallows

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Quality marshmallows consist of apple puree, egg whites, sugar and gelling agents – most often agar-agar or pectin. It practically lacks fats, it is low-calorie (in average marshmallow – about 125 kcal). Agar-agar, which is produced on the basis of algae, normalizes the work of the intestine and liver, is able to remove toxins and has a good effect on the thyroid gland. It contains iron, calcium, potassium, copper, vitamins B5 and E.

Dark chocolate 75%

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Bitter chocolate contains minimal amounts of sugar, and cocoa contains substances that enhance mood, stimulate memory and add energy. A small piece of chocolate can be eaten even by those who sit on a strict diet.

Panna cotta

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This Italian dessert can be enjoyed without remorse. Panna cotta includes cream, gelatin, a small amount of sugar and berry and / or fruit puree. In some recipes, the cream is replaced with milk (cow, almond, soybean), buttermilk or yoghurt. 100 g of panna cottages contains about 75 kcal.

Marmalade

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Another delicious and useful sweetness is marmalade. It practically does not contain fat, it is prepared on the basis of fruit and berry puree, and in some grades agar-agar is added, which is capable of lowering the level of cholesterol and leveling the blood sugar level.

Cakes with yoghurt and fruit

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Choose cakes from fruits filled with natural whipped yogurt and jelly. Avoid biscuits, butter cakes and whipped cream – except for sugar, they have a lot of fat.