Mac and cheese, few calories, low fat, need recipe, help?!


Question: Mac and cheese, few calories, low fat, need recipe, help?
does anyone know a healthy mac and cheese recipe with whole grain pasta and low fat cheese & whatever else needs to be put in it? i cant find a recipe online, &that doesn't make a lot, im 18 & im cooking for myself.
serious answers only please! thnx

Answers:

anything with cheese generally isn't low fat. however you can do things to cut calories. I would suggest making a plain white sauce. to make it even lower in fat i would suggest bringing skim milk to very low boil,add your low fat cheese slowly. and whatever spices you like, like garlic powder. once the cheese and milk mixture is complete mix a teaspoon of corn starch with water and pour it in your mixture to thicken it. pour the sauce on your cooked whole wheat noodles and bake in the oven. top with more cheese if desired.



Seriously, pandabu, the only way is to follow a recipe for an ordinary mac with high fat and high calories - then cook just a teaspoonful!
The problem is that 'steak haché' (minced meat or ground meat) is very dry when grilled unless it has a high fat content to begin with; the starch (in breadcrumbs or pasta) only absorbs more liquid out of the meat. Low fat cheese is not low in fat or calories, it is just lower in fat than high fat cheeses.
There are so many things you can make that are extremely tasty but low in fat and calories, why would you want to cook a burger that tastes lousy? Have you, for instance tried pasta bakes?



Doesn't exist, sorry. Maybe cooking some whole wheat pasta and mixing it with some low fat cottage cheese is your best bet but NO mac and cheese doesn't count as a low fat food in any sense of the word EVER!

Just have the pasta plain with some tomato sauce and a small sprinkle of parmesan cheese. Many Italians have pasta with just some olive oil and parmesan cheese. nothing else. If you are trying to cut calories then cut pasta out of your life. NO white rice, no white bread, no white potatoes, no white pasta. No junk food and no wheat usually saves most people from trouble. Fresh fruits and raw veggies are your friends. A bowl of fruit salad and some low fat plain yogurt is a wonderful breakfast with a sprinkle of granola on it.

Chef



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I would just boil whatever pasta you want to use, mix in a little milk and margarine or butter, and some reduced fat cheese or fat free cheese slices. You could put it in a baking dish and broil it for a few minutes to make the top crusty.



Use a regular recipe and just divide the amounts called for in 1/2 until you get down to an amount that you can use.

pro chef




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