Gallbladder diet. Lime Juice & Key Lime Pastry Tarts May Dissolve Gallstones!

Lime juice can help break up and dissolve gallstones according to the Integrative Health resource site.

Gallbladder diet.  Lime juice in Key Lime Pastry Tarts may dissolve gallstones.

Integrative Health offers not only an excellent blog on gallbladder health but gives important insight on how to treat and successfully heal gallbladder issues through diet, lifestyle, exercise and other integrative behavioral factors.

One of my favorite lime juice recipes are Gallbladder Friendly Key Lime Pastry Tarts!

The Key Lime Pastry Tart recipe is so simple and quick, yet rich and full in flavor while not creating gallbladder inflammation.  And easy to eat too!

So here is the awesome recipe.

Gallbladder Friendly Key Lime Pastry Tarts

The secret to this marvelous desert is three fold. First, the phyllo (filo) dough must be fat free or the most contain right at or less than 1 gram total fat per serving.  Second, use key lime juice if you can obtain from your local grocer.  Third, the serving size is 'just right' - not so much where the leftovers (if any) would go freezer burnish in the ice chest.

Gallbladder diet.  Organic lime juice will do if key lime juice is not available.

Phyllo dough is usually available in no to low fat varieties all the way up to heavily larded with thick vegetable oils and lots of bad fats.  Flee from the big total fat varieties or you will pay dearly with an angry gallbladder!

Gallbladder diet.  Use low fat brands for gallbladder friendly recipes.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup key lime juice
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon dried and ground stevia (optional depending on just how TaRt you like your tarts!)
• two small containers of fat free whipped topping
• 1 small package of phyllo dough (low fat to no fat)
• 4 small baking bowls

Defrost one roll of phyllo dough.

Gallbladder diet.  Phyllo dough comes in low-no fat types as well as high fat.  Avoid high fat brands.

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a mixing bowl combine the whipped topping and lime juice.  Stir rapidly with a fork until smooth and creamy.

Gallbladder diet.  Mix lime juice and whipped topping.

Add in ground cloves and stevia, stirring.

Next mix in the ground cinnamon.

Place four or five layers of phyllo dough in the ungreased (duh) baking dishes, forming 'mini-pie crusts' with the dough by gently pressing into the form of the bowl with your fingers.  Don't worry if the phyllo dough breaks - just add another layer over the dough crack.  The more layers you add the more 'flaky' the cooked crust will be.

Gallbladder diet.  Layer in four or five sheets of phyllo dough, forming into the bowl with fingers.

Add a dusting of cinnamon powder to the inside of the phyllo dough crust.

Gallbladder diet.  Dust inside of crusts with cinnamon.

Place the phyllo dough filled baking bowls in the oven and bake until golden brown.  Remove from oven and allow to cool.  This should take approximately 15-20 minutes.

Gallbladder diet.  Key Lime Pastry Tart crusts baking.

Once the 'pastry tart crusts' are cool to touch, fill each bowl with the blended whipped topping-lime juice-spices mixture.

Gallbladder diet.  Bake Key Lime Pastry Tarts until golden brown, or about fifteen minutes.

Place on a rack in the freezer until the filling is firm (these are really good once they sit overnight!).

Gallbladder diet.  Once crusts are cooled, crusts should be filled with whipped filling mixture!  Then cool in freezer!

Serve for a very refreshing dessert with powerful gallbladder healing potential!

Cheers!  Kevin  #gallbladderlife

Gallbladder Diet. Gallbladder Friendly Watermelon Makes Cardiovascular, Gallbladder and Liver Healthy Snack.

Keeping a watermelon in your refrigerator provides both gallbladder and cardiovascular super support.

Gallbladder diet.  Gallbladder friendly watermelon makes for an excellent breakfast, mid-day snack or evening dessert!

Sometimes the simple foods and snacks are the ones we often overlook.

Watermelon has been shown to provide tremendous support for the gallbladder!  Some websites purport watermelon rind can actually assist in dissolving gallstones.

Watermelon is reported to contain significant amounts of potassium and acts as a diuretic, cleansing toxins and sludge buildup from your body.

Of course watermelon contains no significant amounts of fats or oils, something that my post-gallbladder attack body demands of the foods I ingest.

Additionally, the Florida State University has conducted research showing watermelon actually lowers blood pressure.

Lower blood pressure is important for gallbladder health because hypertension can lead to a significant decrease in blood flow to the liver and gallbladder, injuring these two organs.  An injured gallbladder is an unhappy gallbladder.  Ugh.

Finally, watermelon is tasty, especially if one is chilled in the refrigerator, sweet and ripe, ready for eating.

Yet many times I used to walk right past melons in the market, ignoring these healthy fruits, heading instead to the chip aisle.  Not anymore.  My gallbladder diet includes frequent watermelon purchases.

I keep them iced and ready for a refreshing breakfast, mid day snack or suppertime dessert.

Consider adding super healthy for your heart and gallbladder watermelon to your weekly gallbladder friendly diet.

Cheers!  Kevin  #gallbladderlife.

Pear Cobbler, Gallbladder Friendly! Gallbladder Diet 08/01/16

I used to think a gallbladder friendly diet would be oh so boring.

Gallbladder diet.  Pear Cobbler is easy to make and easy on the touchiest of gallbladders.  Tastes Heavenly too!

Nope!  This hearty, delicious baked cobbler is easy on the touchiest of gallbladders (mine)!

And the gallbladder friendly cobbler is so easy to make.

Pear Cobbler

First thing to do is assemble your ingredients.

You will need:

• baking dish
• a half dozen or so ripe cooking pears
• dried tart cherries or raisins, 1 cup
• dried, powdered cinnamon
• dried, powdered ginger
• dried, powdered cloves
• raw honey
• no-fat tortillas (available at most grocers in the Mexican food section)

Gallbladder diet.  Line a baking dish with fat free tortillas, fill in with pears and spices.

I also use these non-fat tortillas for my gallbladder friendly key lime pie crusts!

First step is to line a clean, dry baking dish with non-fat tortillas.  Make sure the tortillas extend up a bit above the rim of the baking dish.

Wash and slice cooking pears and place in layers on top of the tortilla along with the dried tart cherries or raisins.  Sprinkle the spices (you could also drizzle vanilla over the layers in addition to the spices) over each layer.  I like to use cinnamon, ginger and cloves.  Use your imagination!

Gallbladder diet.  Cut slices from non-fat tortillas to serve as lattice on top of cobbler.

Cut strips from the non-fat tortillas to serve as the lattice strips for the top of the cobbler.  Lay the tortilla strips across the top of the cobbler, creating a lattice topping.

Coat the top of the cobbler lattice with a good layer of cinnamon, cloves and ginger.

Gallbladder diet.  Create a cobbler top lattice with tortilla strips.

 Drizzle one cup of raw honey over the cobbler's topping, allowing the honey to flow down from the top, down through the sliced pears.

Gallbladder diet.  Baked pear cobbler is mouth watering delicious!

Bake the cobbler for 30 minutes of until the pears are no longer 'soggy' at 350 F.  Keep an eye on the cobbler the first time you bake as different pears require different cooking times.

Cool and serve warm with non-fat whipped topping or non-fat yogurt.

Gallbladder friendly diets do not have to be boring!

Cheers.  Kevin   #Gallbladderlife