"The Israel Experts"

Presents the following tours...

ISRAEL TOUR OF THE MONTH

Jerusalem - Tel Aviv - Eilat -Tiberias - Haifa

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15 nights from $2009. Travel via El Al Israel Airlines on this great tour!
15-night program includes airfare, breakfast & dinner daily, Bedouin dinner,
sightseeing, jeep tour, Dead Sea & Eilat. Also available: 12 night mini program.

A Healthier
Passover

SENIOR CITIZEN GOLDEN SPA VACATIONS
Nov. 3 — 24, 1999 - ONLY $2495 - GREAT VALUE!

21 Days at the all suite Blue Weiss Spa Hotel in Netanya Israel,
2 meals daily, 8 days of sightseeing, and evening activities.

JNF FIRST-TIMERS MISSION TO ISRAEL

June 6-17, 1999

$2899.00

Round-trip air, deluxe hotels, sightseeing,
Buffet breakfast daily and most dinners.

SHAvour SUPER DELUXE TOUR TO ISRAEL

Modifications make traditional recipes
low-cal but still tasty.

May 11 - 24, 1999 $2099.00pp

Spend Shavout in Israel! Round-trip airfare, 12 nights in deluxe hotels,
transfers, buffet breakfast daily, 7 days of touring, folklore evening,
lunch & spa at the Dead Sea, Galilee jeep tour
and a special Western Wall tunnel tour.

BARIBAT MITZVAH EXPERIENCE

June 27-July 11, July 4-18, July 11-25, Aug. 1-15, Aug. 8-22, Aug. 15-29

Air, hotels, sightseeing, Bar Mitzvah ceremony, buffet breakfast daily an

dinners. A great family tour! CALL FOR PRICES
Available as a family tour without bar/bat mitzvah ceremony.

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Wishes a Healthy and Happy
Passover to Alt our
Friends and Customers!

Phone: 248-335-4555

WISHING EVERYONE A
PEACEFUL AND JOYOUS
PASSOVER

JANET RANDOLPH
AND THE STAFF OF BOOK COUZENS TRAVEL

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3/26
1999

118 Detroit Jewish News

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26913 northwestern highway
southfield, michigan 48034
phone: 248/262-1560

assover is a family
holiday that symbol.-
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izes many things. It's
the Festival of
Freedom, the beginning of the
grain harvest and, of course,
the seder service. Passover, like
most holidays, is celebrated
with traditional foods. Many
traditional Passover foods,
unfortunately, are high in fat
and sugar. By the eighth day of
Passover, many of us could
Erica Snyder with her low fat matzah and
find ourselves carrying around
cheese kugel.
a few extra pounds.
However, Passover does not
have to be a nutritional disaster. In
MATZAH AND CHEESE KUGEL
the midst of removing the chametz,
Traditional Recipe
kashering the dishes and performing
5 eggs
other pre-holiday chores, families
1 cup whole milk
need to plan ways to eat healthy dur-
1 lb. cottage cheese
ing Passover. Unlike our forebears, we
1 t. salt
continue to suffer from diseases asso-
1/4 cup honey
ciated with poor nutrition. Moses did
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
not organize a car caravan to move
4 matzot, broken into pieces
our people out of Egypt nor did they
1/2 cup toasted slivered almonds
stop for a quick falafel or snack.
Learning to identify high fat/sugar
Low-Fat Recipe
foods and condiments is the first step
5 egg substitute
in modifying some of our favorite
1 cup skim milk
dishes. Replacing and/or modifying
1 lb. low-fat cottage cheese
basic ingredients can easily reduce the
1 t. salt
amount of fat. For example:
1/4 cup honey
• Replace an egg with an egg sub-
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
stitute (1/4 cup) or 2 egg whites and
4 matzot, broken into pieces
save 5 grams of fat per egg.
1/4 cup toasted slivered almonds
• Replace whole milk with skim milk
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
and save 9 grams of fat per serving.
Lightly grease a shallow 2-quart bak-
• Replace cottage cheese with low-
ing dish or large pie plate. Beat the
fat cottage cheese and save 5 grams.
eggs and milk together. Add the cot-
• Replace butter with non-fat mar-
tage cheese, salt, honey and cinnamon.
garine and save 14 grams.
Place half the matzah pieces in the
• Decrease the amount of sugar in
baking dish. Pour half the cheese-egg
a recipe by one-fourth to one-half the
mixture on top. Sprinkle with the
recommended portion.
almonds. Cover with the remaining
These simple changes generally will
matzah pieces and the remainder of
not alter the taste of the food. Dishes
the cheese-egg mixture. Bake for about
will remain tasty, yet be a bit healthi-
40 minutes, or until the top is brown
er. The following recipe modifications
and slightly crunchy. Serves 6-10.
of Matzah and Cheese Kugel, Matzah
Traditional Recipe: Per Serving: 1
Balls and Vegetable Cutlets serve as
piece; Calories: 188; Fat: 10g;
good examples.
Cholesterol: 1 19mg; Protein: 11g;

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