South Seas Green Beans

by JoAnna Lund

Tangy and delicious, try this recipe for a change of pace for those same old boring vegetables. From JoAnna Lund's wonderful cookbook A Potful of Recipes, you can't go wrong.

4 cups frozen cut green beans -- thawed
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup imitation bacon bits
1/4 cup hot water
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 (2 oz) jar chopped pimientos -- undrained
2 tablespoons Splenda or Sugar Twin
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
Spray a slow cooker container with butter flavored cooking spray. In the prepared container, combine the green beans, onion, and imitation bacon bits. Stir in the water, vinegar, and undrained pimientos. Add sugar substitute and the black pepper. Mix well to combine. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 5 hours. Mix well before serving.

HINT: Thaw the green beans by placing them in a colander and rinsing them under hot water for one minute.

Source: A Potful of Recipes

Be sure and check out the book:

A Potful of Recipes : A Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
by Joanna M. Lund and Barbara Alpert

Every busy cook wants to get in and out of the kitchen as quickly as possible - and still have a delicious meal to show for it. With A Potful of Recipes, bestselling author JoAnna Lund makes preparing healthy, delicious meals easier than ever before. All of the mouthwatering recipes in this book can be prepared in a slow cooker - which means that harried cooks will be serving meals with no fuss, no mess... and absolutely no stress! With 288 pages of recipes you'll be using your slow cooker every single day.

About the Author

JoAnna M. Lund is the author of the bestselling Healthy Exchanges Cookbook, HELP: Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan, Cooking Healthy with a Man in Mind, and other books. A popular speaker with weight loss, cardiac, and diabetic support groups, she lives in DeWitt, Iowa, where she runs the Healthy Exchanges business and publishes the Healthy Exchanges newsletter.

A Potful of Recipes: A Healthy Exchanges Cookbook

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