Hell yes, pasta is diet cool! (Just so long as you keep
the total calories and carbohydrates in line on any given day, you can eat most anything you
want to)! Really!
On an otherwise cold and dreary Sunday
in February, I elected to mix things up a bit, diet-wise, and have myself some
pasta for the midday meal! I was getting pretty bored with the rather bland lunches in the past
and wanted to enjoy a steaming plate of Penne lisce along with some steamed broccoli,
carrots and a slice garlic toast! The key to this meal-a-deal was to keep the amount of pasta
at just 56 grams. Here was what I came up with:
As I saw that the actual weights of
the carrots and broccoli were significantly less that what had been
calculated in the dietary base, I toned the calories down to 380 and the carbs to 74 grams.
With the total for this day being about 1500 and 140 grams
respectively. That was well with in the dietary recommendation of institutes like the Mayo Clinic.
[Note that the Mayo Clinic recommended
amounts are as follows: 'The Dietary Guidelines for Americans
recommends that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of your
total daily calories. So, if you get 2,000 calories a day, between
900 and 1,300 calories should be from carbohydrates. That translates
to between 225 and 325 grams of carbohydrates a day.']
So on this day, it was no harm and no
foul as I did get to enjoy a real change of pace lunchtime repast! Notes: The glass contained not wine, but rather some flavored water. I also used a butter and salt substitute.
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