Franks & Swiss Crescent Ingredients

Series Summary

Diabetes is a syndrome distinguished by the body's inability to regulate blood sugar levels due to low levels of the hormone insulin or the body's resistance to the effect of insulin. Symptoms can include excessive thirst, increased urine production, and blurred vision. But if treated properly, which means blood pressure control, lifestyle choices, and proper nutrition and diet, the most adverse symptoms and resultant chronic conditions of diabetes can usually be avoided. Since the first step to controlling a syndrome like diabetes is to eat properly and control your intake of sugar, cooking and food recipes, like this series, are essential to the proper management of diabetes.

In this free video series, our expert Josiah Owen will teach you how to cook some appetizers for diabetics. Josiah will teach you how to prepare and cook franks and swiss crescents and a fruit pizza. He will show you how to prepare the crescents, hotdogs, and strawberries. He will show you how to cut the crescents, add the mustard, season and add cheese to the crescents, and roll the crescents. Josiah will also teach you how to make and prepare the crust and base for a fruit pizza, and teach you how to arrange the fruit on the pizza and add a glaze.

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Josiah Owen with Expert Village and today we will be cooking for those who are on a diabetic diet. Today's menu will consist of fruit pizza and Swiss and Franks Crescents. Now, we're going to talk about the ingredients we’re going to need for our Franks and Swiss crescents. We're going to need one tube, which is 8 ounces refrigerated reduced fat crescent rolls. We're going to need 2 tablespoons of Dijon mustard, a half of a cup sliced reduced fat Swiss cheese, a half a teaspoon salt-free seasoning blend, and 8 reduced fat hot dogs. The nutritional content for this is one appetizer equals 94 calories with 4 grams of fat. One of those grams is saturated fat, 15 milligrams cholesterol, and 453 milligrams of sodium."