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.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on March 9th, 2007 |