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Bedford County Names
Lamb And Wool Queen
BEDFORD (Bedford Co.)
Amy Fisher, daughter of Lana and
Rodney Fisher of 736 Green Lane
in Bedford, was crowned lamb and
wool queen at the annual banquet.
Not a country girl by birth, Amy
adopted farm life, thanks to Ada
and Bill Myers of Bedford Valley.
“It’s a long story,” said Ada,
who has been helping with sheep
since the early days of her
marriage.
“Amy was visiting the farm with
her sister, a friend of our son,
Scott. Amy took to the sheep and
asked her parents if she could have
some of her own.”
“We always go along with what
the girls want,” admits her mother.
“We thought if the Myers are will
ing, why not?” *
Amy has three sheep of her own
including two crossbred Oxford
and Suffolk and one Suffolk.
She has shown her market lambs
at the Bedford Fair and at Jackpot
Shows. Last year she had the
reserve lightweight champion at
the Bedford Fair.
At school, Amy is on the soft
ball and volleyball teams, a mem
ber of the honor society, student
council, and chorus.
A junior at Bedford High
School, she hopes to someday
have her own small farm and flock
of sheep.
The Myers, who board her
sheep, have a 100 head flock of
Suffolk and Doisets.
Family Living
Focus
by
Adams Co.
Extension Agent
Nina Redding
Choose Fresh Snacks
I can eat everything in sight! At
least it seems like that these days.
I’m expecting a baby in mid-May
and it seems from about my fourth
month on I’ve had an unending
appetite. As I eat, my husband
Russell so sweetly reminds me that
it all must come off in the end!
My usual prepregnancy crav
ings for junk food have turned to
cravings for fresh fruits and veget
ables. It’s almost scary. But I have
to admit, the fresh fruits and veget
ables are a much healthier choice
and lower in calories too.
Everyone gets the “munchies”
and it takes all types of snack foods
to satisfy those powerful urges at
times. Snacking, it seems, is an
American Pastime and one which I
thoroughly enjoy. Have you con
sidered livening up your snack
time with naturally sweet and juice
fresh fruits and crisp crunch
vegetables?
A juicy orange is bursting with
thirst-quenching flavors. A banana
helps to stave off hunger pains.
Crunch fresh vegetables dunked in
a favorite dip are popular hors
d’oeuvers and great for snacks too.
Use fresh vegetables to make
sweet and spicy breads for coffee
break refreshment.
Fresh fruit and vegetable snacks
are the most natural snacks around.
Fruits and vegetables also provide
bulk to the diet which aids diges
tion, are low in sodium, contain no
Amy Fisher, the 1995 Bedford County Lamb and Wooi
Queen, wasn’t always a farm girl.
cholesterol and are low in calories.
Fresh fruit and vegetable snacks
are easy to prepare what’s
easier than peeling an orange or
banana? Raw vegetables are quick,
too —just trim and slice if desired.
Raw cauliflower florette, sweet
potato sticks, broccoli buds and
more add' crunch to your
munchies.
So take the fresh approach to
your snacking, like me. (Don’t
forget you’ll get an added bonus in
that you won’t get those pangs of
guilt at snack-time.) Here are some
suggestions for fresh snacking. For
the freshest snacks, remember to
buy bright clean, firm, well
shaped, bruise-free vegetables and
fruits. Trim leaves and stalks as
uttle as possible. If you wish to
peel fruits or vegetables, keep
peelings thin so nutrients ate not
wasted.
Fresh Snack Ideas:
• Munch on raw vegetables
broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cel
ery, cucumbers, mushrooms,
green onions, green and red pep
pers, sweet potato strips, radishes
or dip into flesh onion dip.
• Munch on flesh fruit—apples,
pears, grapes, peaches, nectarines,
plums, bananas, oranges,
grapefruit, pineapple, and melon.
• Halve a grapefruit or orange
and top with a scoop of cottage
cheese.
• Stuff celery with peanut butler
or seasoned cream cheese.
• Make frozen banana chips. Cut
rounds of banana, spread on alumi
num foil, and wrap tightly. Freeze
and serve for a great snack.
• Frozen whole bananas are
always a treat. Insert a wooden
stick into a ripe banana, wrap in
plastic and freeze for one hour. If
desired, remove and dip into cho
colate sauce, re-freeze in plastic
until ready to serve.
• Try another banana snack.
Slice banana rounds, place on
tooth picks, dip in fresh lime,
lemon or mange juice to which
some honey has been added. Roll
pieces in finely chopped nuts.
• Make fresh breads with zuc
chini or pumpkin.
• Remove several cabbage
leaves, wash and dry them, and
then roll around cheese sticks or
cream cheese and secure with a
tooth pick.
• Make fresh spinach dip.-Com
bine in blender: 3/4 pound cooked
and drained spinach, 1 cup plain
yogurt, 2/3 cup mayonnaise, 1
tablespoon finely chopped onion
and 1 tablespoon lemon or lime
juice. Blend well and serve.
• Serving guests a late-night
snack? Skewer grapes, berries,
chunks of melon, apple, pear,
pineapple or any fkuit, alternating
cubes of cheese or rolled slices of
ham or turkey.
• Fresh beverages are great tast
ing snacks and good energy boos
ters, too. Combine milk, orange
juice, a banana and a few ice cubes
in a blender. Blend for one minute
and serve.
• Make a fresh fruit pizza! Press
a pie crust into a pizza pan or coo
kie sheet Prick with a fork and
bake at 450 degrees F for 10-15
minutes until lightly browned.
Soften creamed cheese with fresh
orange juice, beat until creamy.
Coat the bated crust with cream
cheese mixture and top with any
combination of sliced ftesh fruit
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