4 tablespoons low-fat cream cheese, room temperature
4 slices good quality pre-sliced whole wheat bread, toasted lightly
4 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1 ripe California kiwifruit, unpeeled and sliced into 8 rounds
Place the banana pieces and cream cheese into the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse, scraping down the sides of the bowl, until they are just blended. Do not over-process. Alternately, you can mash the cream cheese and banana together until well blended.
Spread the banana cream on one side of two pieces of bread.
Spread the peanut butter on the remaining two slices of bread.
Divide the sliced kiwi between the two bread slices with banana cream.
Top with the peanut butter covered bread.
Cut diagonally into halves then cut again to make four sandwich triangles.
Makes two sandwiches.
Nutritional Analysis:
Total calories: 440
Calories from fat: 220
Percent calories from fat: 47%
Total fat: 24 grams
Saturated fat: 7 grams
Cholesterol: 15 Mg.
Sodium: 540 Mg.
Carbohydrates: 44 grams
Sugar: 15 grams
Protein: 18 grams
Dietary fiber: 7 grams
Percent of daily values: Vitamin A 6%; Vitamin C 70%; Calcium 10%; Iron 20%
Green Kiwi Cake
Green has become a popular color not only for food, but also for clothing and even hair! Kids will love these bright green cupcakes. Add a few drops of green food coloring to basic white cake mix batter.
Pour batter into cupcake pan with liners and bake. While cupcakes are cooling, add some green food coloring to store-bought vanilla frosting. Frost cupcakes once they have cooled. Top cupcakes with sliced kiwifruit while frosting is still moist.
Kiwi Wraps
Wraps are becoming more popular, with unusual combinations of flavorful ingredients. Make this simple wrap for breakfast or as a snack.
Peel two kiwifruit and cup into small bite-sized pieces.
Mix with some low- or non-fat cottage cheese.
Spread tortilla with peanut butter and place kiwifruit-cheese mixture in the center.
Feel free to add other fruits like strawberries or peaches. Roll up like a burrito and eat.
Kiwi Popsicle
Kiwifruit skin is good for you and feels similar to peach skin when it is eaten. Many of the nutrients in kiwifruit are in the peel. Bite right in! It is also OK to peel the kiwifruit before popsicle-izing it.
Cut the ends off of a kiwifruit. Push a Popsicle stick into the end of the fruit.
Kiwi Pizza
These fruit pizzas are colorful and fun to make and eat with friends.
Prepare sugar cookies using store-bought refrigerated dough.
Cut the cookies into fun shapes with cookie cutters.
Let cookies cool after baking and spread with frosting.
While frosting is still moist, top cookies with slices of kiwifruit.
