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Diet Cookie Recipe for Cave Bear Apricot Pecan Cookies - The low fat, low calorie original recipe from Men in Fur

You can go a little apricot while dieting and still lose weight! The key to losing weight is changing to a diet that is lower in calories and a diet that contains healthy benefits.

Dried apricots add sweetness to our diet cookie recipe without adding a lot of calories and fat. In turn, the use of Splenda in place of sugar saves a huge 800 calories; another good purpose of the use of apricots is that they allowed us to cut the amount of vegetable shortening used, in half.

Ingredients

1 cup of sifted flour
dash of salt
1/2 teaspoon of sifted baking soda
1/4 cup of solid vegetable shortening
1 cup of Splenda
1/4 cup of dried apricots, chopped
2 Tablespoons of chopped pecans
1 teaspoon of Real Vanilla
1 egg OR use egg substitute if watching cholesterol (will also cut calories)

Mix wet ingredients with shortening; add apricots & nuts; slowly add flour as last ingredient. Add more flour if necessary to form a pliable dough. Shape and bake at 350 degrees until cookies are set. Remove and allow cookies to cool.

Entire batch contains about 550-600 calories.