Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Who Can Survive on THIS??

I found this while browsing on-line. I wanted to make something other than potatoes for a change and bought some Gardein fake chicken breasts and thought this recipe looked pretty good. I would use the vegan chicken and nooch instead of parm. What I saw at the end of the recipe shocked me, though. Here's the basic recipe:

(The exact recipe has been altered to protect the (not so) innocent. The original listed name brands for every item, including the chicken.)

Chicken Parmesan Noodle Bake

1/4 c chopped onion
1 3/4 (one 14 1/2 oz. can) stewed tomatoes coarsely chopped and undrained
1 1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
2 tsp. sugar substitute
1/2 c. (one 2.5 oz. jar) drained sliced mushrooms
1/4 c. (3/4 oz) grated fat free Parmesan cheese
1 1/2 c. (8 oz) diced cooked chicken breast
2 c. hot cooked noodles rinsed and drained

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If you're like me, aside from the amount of cheese, this would make a nice lunch or dinner for one person, right? Everything would neatly fit on one dinner plate. I was going to double it when making dinner for my husband and myself tonight.

The details say this recipe serves 4!! FOUR? 4 what - cockroaches? Certainly not 4 adult humans! It also said it was 250 calories per serving. Since when is 250 calories a decent dinner? Even when I was a kid and on a 1000 calorie a day diet I was told to eat 500 calories for my main meal for the day.

Am I totally off base here? Has "eating to satisfaction" of McDougall-approved meals done something to my perception of what a healthy amount of food is? I don't think so. I read the daily menus of other McDougallers and they eat way more than I do on any given day.

I Miss Richard Simmons

 The voice, the hair, the outfits, that laugh - I miss every single thing about that glitzy, ditsy, outrageous person. Oh, yes, his workouts...