baratron: (baratron again)
baratron ([personal profile] baratron) wrote2008-07-19 02:09 am

"recipe" tip for the gall bladder-challenged

Or anyone else on a low fat diet.

I had a craving for instant noodles, but the noodles I have here (Sainsbury's vegetable instant noodles, suitable for vegans) are so high in fat that one packet gives you a staggering 26.6 grams of fat! I can't *eat* food that fatty without getting really ill. So I took the flavour packet from the noodles & made it up with normal spaghetti, broken into small pieces. It was good! Would've been even better if the flavour packet was fresh and not expired in 2006 (not a problem from the health point of view, because there isn't enough FOOD in those flavour packets to go off) ;). The original noodles, however, would've been inedible because they're all full of palm oil, which like all vegetable oils goes rancid after a couple of years.

YAY DELICIOUS JUNK FOODS!
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[personal profile] nitoda 2008-07-19 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
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[identity profile] micheinnz.livejournal.com 2008-07-20 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Most ramen noodles are loaded with fat. It's to dry the noodles out after they've been cooked, apparently.

I can't eat ramen on account of their being made of wheat, so I subsitute rice noodles wherever appropriate. Works well, and most rice noodles are low-fat (being made of rice flour and water).