What I did with the alfredo sauce this evening....

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Now, given that alfredo sauce, I thought I'd talk a bit about what I did

with it.

We couldn't think of anything to make for dinner this evening so my wife

decided to go simple and pulled out a couple of boxes of Tuna Helper. She

wanted to make it up for her lunches this week and figured she and the kids

would just have a bowl as well. This gave me a bit of an idea. I was kind

of in the mood for the alfredo Tuna Helper, it sound good, so I decided to

make my own.

First off, I made my alfredo sauce. It tasted great. I made up some whole

grain pasta and combined the sauce and pasta with a can of low sodium tuna.

The end product? A home made version of Tuna Helper's alfredo and noodles

meal.

It was pretty tasty too, if I do say so myself.

The batch I made up would yield about 10 servings. The extra cup of

parmesan cheese cost roughly 3g of fat per serving (right about 1.5g of that

being saturated) and 140mg of sodium. For that reason, you might want to

try it with just 1 cup of parmesan -- it tastes good that way as well.

Here's some box scores for the meal, sauce/tuna/pasta included.

Total Fat 11.835

Saturated Fat 6.8677

Trans Fat 0

Cholesterol 39.7

Sodium 324.55

Carbohydrates 15.155

Dietary Fiber 1.65

Sugars 2.284

Protein 10.845