edco76
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Please share a food or a dish that you thought you would either have to give up completely or find some funky "compare to" recipe that has like 1 ingredient in common and tastes like a lab experiment gone awry, only to find that it isn't nearly as bad as you thought. Also if you have a dish that you had been eating guilt free only to find out that it was not what you thought, share that also.
Mine is:
Biscuits and gravy. As a southern guy, gravy is practically a food group. It is something I have loved since childhood. Being from a single mom family Mon-Fri was grab a bowl of cereal which you ate while your mom brushed your hair but on the weekends she had time to cook. Biscuits, gravy, eggs, sausage or bacon. It was something I loved and still love and a tradition that we have carried on after I became a father. However we thought it was a no-brainer when dealing with the "D" word that that would have to go. One morning my son was asking for biscuits and gravy. My wife agreed that sounded great but we couldnt because she and I can't have it and my daughter doesnt like gravy (the paternity test is pending) and it is too much trouble to make it for 1 person. Out of curiosity I get the ingredients out just to remind myself what diet suicide it would be to have it. Here is what I found.
1/4 cup of flour 113 calories
2 tablespoons of bacon drippings 226(Crisco has the same calories since most healthy people don't have bacon grease lying around)
2 cups milk (the one thing I changed is that I used to always use 1 cup whole and 1 cup water. All we had was skim so I used 2 cups skim which garnered pretty much the same taste/consistency) 170
509 calories for 2 cups of cream gravy. At 1/4 cup servings that is 8 servings at 64 calories a serving.
My wife doesnt measure when making homemade biscuits but I know you can make Reduced Fat Bisquik Biscuits for 130 per.
2 Slices Turkey Bacon (50)
1 Egg (70)
1 Biiscuit (130-200 depending on type)
1/4 cup of Gravy (64)
Country breakfast for 314 calories.
Before the nutrition police come out. I know this isn't healthy and despite the calories still has to be a splurge meal but if having this 1-2 times a month can help you stay on track I feel it is well worth it.
Mine is:
Biscuits and gravy. As a southern guy, gravy is practically a food group. It is something I have loved since childhood. Being from a single mom family Mon-Fri was grab a bowl of cereal which you ate while your mom brushed your hair but on the weekends she had time to cook. Biscuits, gravy, eggs, sausage or bacon. It was something I loved and still love and a tradition that we have carried on after I became a father. However we thought it was a no-brainer when dealing with the "D" word that that would have to go. One morning my son was asking for biscuits and gravy. My wife agreed that sounded great but we couldnt because she and I can't have it and my daughter doesnt like gravy (the paternity test is pending) and it is too much trouble to make it for 1 person. Out of curiosity I get the ingredients out just to remind myself what diet suicide it would be to have it. Here is what I found.
1/4 cup of flour 113 calories
2 tablespoons of bacon drippings 226(Crisco has the same calories since most healthy people don't have bacon grease lying around)
2 cups milk (the one thing I changed is that I used to always use 1 cup whole and 1 cup water. All we had was skim so I used 2 cups skim which garnered pretty much the same taste/consistency) 170
509 calories for 2 cups of cream gravy. At 1/4 cup servings that is 8 servings at 64 calories a serving.
My wife doesnt measure when making homemade biscuits but I know you can make Reduced Fat Bisquik Biscuits for 130 per.
2 Slices Turkey Bacon (50)
1 Egg (70)
1 Biiscuit (130-200 depending on type)
1/4 cup of Gravy (64)
Country breakfast for 314 calories.
Before the nutrition police come out. I know this isn't healthy and despite the calories still has to be a splurge meal but if having this 1-2 times a month can help you stay on track I feel it is well worth it.