The other day I had a craving for a hot dog, specifically a chili dog. I went over to the hot dog section of the grocery store, and found a couple brands of “lite” hot dogs. These lite hot dogs weren’t so lite with over 60% of the total calories coming from fat. That’s a lot!
I was doing a search on the net for info on low fat hot dogs, and found mention of some fat-free hot dogs! Now that would be great!
On my next visit to the grocery store, I revisited the hot dog section and found Park Park brand Fat Free Franks. They are made with beef, pork, and turkey. According to the package, each hot dog has only 40 calories. Wow! The calories come from the 4 grams of carbs, and the 5 grams of protein. There is no fat! Way cool!
Well, I was hungry this afternoon, so I cooked up a couple of them for lunch. The buns I used are ordinary store brand buns. Each bun has 130 calories, with only 15 of those calories coming from fat. Each bun has 25 grams of carbs, and 5 grams of protein.
So most of the calories were coming from the buns, and not the hot dogs! That’s kind of weird. Any, I cooked up two hot dogs (boiled them in water), then placed them on the buns. I squirted on some ketchup. I considered some mustard, and maybe some relish (I love a good junk dog with the works!). But I wanted to see the taste of the hot dog. So I just used the ketchup.
Well! They were good. Not as good a Zweigels Red Hots, but they were still very good. I will definately be buying more of these! Yummy!
We had some chicken thawed in the fridge, but I didn’t know what I wanted to make. I started digging through my cookbooks trying to find a recipe. I looked in the Weight Watchers Take-Out Tonight cookbook, but nothing jumped out at me. Then I looked in the Cooking Light 5 Ingredient/15 Minute Cookbook. I liked the look of the picture of the Chicken Alfredo Pasta recipe on page 129. I made a shopping list, and stopped at the store on my way from karate class. The Rotini, and mixed vegetables were easy to find. But the recipe called for a 15 ounce can of “low-fat chicken alfredo-style soup”. I went to the soup aisle, and looked. And looked some more. I found a can of Campbell’s Select (Chef Inspired Soup) Creamy Chicken Alfredo. It didn’t say low fat. I couldn’t find a low fat version of chicken alfredo style soup. The Campbells Creamy Chicken Alfredo can contains two servings of 7 grams of fat each. Each serving has 180 calories, with 60 calories coming from fat, so the fat calories make of 33% of the total calories. Is that low fat? I talked to one of the grocery store employees, and a manager said they didn’t have a low fat version. I bought the Campbell’s.
The recipe is pretty simple. Pasta, mixed vegetables, cubed grilled chicken, chicken alfredo soup, parmesan, salt, pepper. I followed the directions.
It looked good. But the Chicken Alfredo Pasta tasted just okay. With the question of whether this is actually low-fat, and the just okay taste, I will probably not make this again.