Recipe: Slow Cooker Sensational Baked Beans (using sugar substitute)

SLOW COOKER SENSATIONAL BAKED BEANS

"This picnic staple is an ideal use for slow cookers. The long, low-heat method is great for flavor and tenderness--and you don't have to heat up the house with your oven."

1 cup (one 8-ounce can) Hunt's Tomato Sauce
1 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
2 tablespoons pourable Splenda or Sugar Twin
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
30 ounces (three 16-ounce cans) great northern beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup finely chopped onion
6 tablespoons Hormel Bacon Bits

Spray a slow cooker container with butter-flavored cooking spray. In prepared container, combine tomato sauce, mustard, Splenda and Worcestershire sauce. Stir in great northern beans. Add onion and bacon bits. Mix well to combine.

Cover crock pot and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours. Mix well before serving.

HE: 2-1/2 protein, 1 vegetable, 1/4 slider, 5 optional calories

Nutritional analysis: 166 calories, 2g fat, 11g protein, 26g carbohydrate, 527mg sodium, 13mg calcium, 8g fiber

Diabetic: 2 meat, 1 vegetable, 1 starch

Makes 6 servings
Source: A Potful of Recipes by JoAnna M. Lund (Perigee Books), 2001