Salmon, cream cheese and avocado! What could taste richer? This is a quick and tasty snack for lunch, hungry kids, or company.
The calorie count is figured without the sesame crackers, since they vary a great deal from brand to brand. It is also calculated with low-fat cream cheese and regular mayonnaise, so you can reduce it if you use a non-fat cream cheese and a low-fat mayo. (more…)
I love smoked fish, but it’s usually too expensive for me to buy. However, lately I’ve been seeing packages of smoked fish in the deli sections of many of the less up-scale supermarkets, and I’ve been buying smoked trout this way. In my part of the world it costs about a dollar an ounce. Yeah, I know that amounts to sixteen bucks a pound, which could hardly be called economic, but you don’t need more than two ounces to get the full benefits of the wonderful taste of smoked fish. And the rest of the ingredients in this dish are inexpensive, so you can feel like you’re living in the lap of luxury while not breaking the bank.
This recipe stretches an eighth of a pound of smoked fish to feed four on a lunch menu, or to serve six people as a side salad. It’s also low enough in calories that you can have a big, satisfying bowl and still add less than 350 to your daily total. And they’re good calories too: 21.4 grams of protein per serving, and only 7.2g of fat, most of it from the fish. You’ll meet 25% of your daily needs for Vitamin A, calcium and iron in a single serving, and over 80% of your Vitamin C needs. All that and it tastes fabulous, too! (more…)
