Wednesday, February 23, 2011

4 Miles, 5 Recipes, Recipe Upgrade, Label Maker?

Your comments made me smile! I really do love seeing my house come together - so fun! I don't know about you, but my Tuesday was MUCH better than my Monday. In a nutshell:
  • Work, work through lunch, blah.
  • 4 mile walk after work with Stacy
  • Home to cook 5 recipes - it only took me 1.5 hours in total (including cooking all and cleaning) because I had slowcooked 2 pounds beef in taco seasoning; and slowcooked 3 pounds chicken in salt, pepper and chicken stock. Having all of the meat done already was SWEET.
  • After dinner I just got in bed, watched a little bit of Spy Kids (love that cute little movie!), and called it a night!
One of the recipes I made was my Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas. I switched it up, mixing Cabot 75% reduced fat cheese in with fat-free cheese, shredding the chicken, removing some oil, and topping with fresh cilantro.... Check out the difference:

NEW

OLD
The new one even has less calories, fewer carbs, less fat grams and MORE protein!

NEW Nutritional Information: 437 calories, 47 carbs, 8 fat grams and 40 protein grams.
OLD Nutritional Information: 461 calories, 51 carbs, 9 fat grams and 39 protein grams.

Not entirely significant, but still worth it to me. I basically removed the oil and instead softened the tortillas with the towel-in-microwave way. Then, to make it look more appealing and to add flavor, I mixed fat-free cheese with Cabot 75% reduced fat, which made it melt better, taste better and again, it bettered the nutritional values - WOO!

Q: Do you ever give older recipes a makeover? I'm going to go back and do this for several of my 475 - 500 calorie meals. I'll make sure to leave up the old ones though (if I think the calories are worth it!). :)

Q: I'm in the market for a label maker. I just want one that prints a few different fonts/font sizes on clear ribbon. Do you have a label maker you can recommend?