Eating Healthy Can Taste Good

When you think of cheesecake you always think that it'll be really bad for you and if you are trying to be healthy its something to avoid.

I recently bought something called quark from the supermarket because I thought it was like cottage cheese - I was wrong and by itself it tasted pretty bad to be honest.

Anyway my son enjoys making cakes and stuff like that so we thought we'd make a cheesecake with this quark (which is 0% fat) instead of full fat soft cheese.  I didn't think it was going to taste any good but I was gladly proved wrong, it was really good and I let my 3 year old make it again as much as he wants!

I thought I'd share it with you as I can appreciate how difficult it can be to eat healthy and find tasty things to eat.  As this recipe still contains a lot of sugar I would recommend eating it straight after a workout or about half an hour before to avoid sugar overloading the pancreas and being converted to fat.  It is definately a million times healthier than your standard cheesecake!

Here is the ingredient list:

• 80g digestive biscuits
• 50g melted butter
• 200g light soft cheese
• 500g Quark
• 200g icing sugar
• zest 2 lemons , juice of 3 

 And here's the process:

1. Crush the digestive biscuits and mix with the melted butter. Press into the base of a 20cm tin. Chill to firm.
2. Whisk the light soft cheese with the quark and icing sugar, then fold through zest 2 lemons.
3. Beat the juice into the cheese mix, then spoon on top of the biscuit base. Chill until set. Enjoy!

 Total Nutrition Breakdown for the whole cake is as follows:

• Protein - 96 grams
• Carbohydrate - 444 grams
• Fat - 120 grams
• Saturated Fat - 72 grams

If you have a standard serving which is 1/8 of the whole cake it will be:

• Protein - 12 grams
• Carbohydrate - 37 grams
• Fat - 10 grams
• Saturated Fat - 6 grams
• 286 Calories

Compare that to your average cheesecake and you'll find its a million times better and tastes pukka too.