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Cookbook Sales Help Fight Cancer

Merri Lou Dobler Correspondent

Through a high school alumni newsletter, I recently found out that a classmate of mine had died. I called her mother and discovered that my friend had died of breast cancer. She had fought valiantly for three years, enduring every possible therapy.

There is much more public awareness of breast cancer now than ever before. And even though one in nine women will experience the disease in her lifetime, breast cancer has one of the best survival rates of any type of cancer - with early detection, between 85 and 90 percent after five years.

If you are interested in helping to fight breast cancer and want a good cookbook to boot, consider “Rose Reisman’s Enlightened Home Cooking” (available through bookstores). Proceeds support the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization in the U.S. and the National Breast Cancer Fund in Canada.

The book contains 180 recipes that are low in fat and calories and can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. You may be most interested in the “Kids’ Favorite” chapter, which has “secretly healthy” dishes.

You’ll have no leftovers with today’s chicken recipe, a honey-sweetened dish that bakes in 10 minutes. Kids will eat it right up.

Here’s to your memory, Heidi Strutz.

Honey-Coated Crunchy Chicken Fingers

From “Rose Reisman’s Enlightened Home Cooking” (Robert Rose).

1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breasts

1/4 cup honey (slightly warmed)

1/4 cup water

1 cup crushed cornflakes (from 3 cups cereal)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray baking sheet with vegetable spray.

Cut chicken breasts crosswise into strips 3/4 inch wide. In small bowl, combine honey and water. Pour cornflakes on a plate.

Dip chicken strips in honey mixture, then coat with cornflake crumbs. Put on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, or until cooked at center, turning chicken over at halfway point.

Yield: 6 servings.

Nutrition information per serving: 174 calories, 18 grams protein, 1 gram fat (5 percent fat calories), 23 grams carbohydrate, 44 milligrams cholesterol, 196 milligrams sodium.

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