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Lose Weight Using Whole Grain Pasta in Your Diet Plan

Diet Article: Yes, you can have your whole grain pasta and lose weight too, the healthy way.

While you can use regular pasta - the whole grain varieties will offer more nutritional values.

When it comes to pasta, it allows the opportunity to pair another healthy food group - the vegetable group. Look for recipes where you can add any fresh vegetables selections to punch power into your meal.

Lemon Pepper Pasta, a diet recipe

While we make use of egg noodles in this recipe, you can use any variety of pasta.

The Recipe Ingredients
1 cup of prepared whole grain egg noodles
lemon pepper, black cracked pepper
1/4 cup of Half & Half plus 1/2 cup of pan-roasted chicken

This is one easy pasta recipe that goes together so quickly. Simply combine the egg noodles or your favorite drained pasta, the pan-roasted chicken and the Half & Half. Sprinkle on the lemon and black peppers.

Ramen Noodle Quick Meal, a diet recipe

If you are pinched for time and you're in the mood for pasta, those little packages of Ramen Noodles can come to the rescue. I rarely use them to prepare soup - and I always toss the seasoning packet because they are simply too salty and not great for our blood pressure as my husband and myself are both very sensitive to the effects of excess sodium in the daily diet.

Add just a little water to a sauce pan and when it boils, add the Ramen Noodles. They will of course - cook very quickly. You can enjoy them at this stage with a little reduced fat margarine and a sprinkle of cracked black pepper - or the lemon pepper as we used in our Lemon Pepper Pasta recipe.

You can also add several varieties of sauteed vegetables to the noodles. Sliced mushrooms, chopped onion, chopped bell pepper and fresh baby spinach all work very well.

Simply use a bit of cooking spray in a non-stick pan and added the cleaned and sliced (or chopped) vegetables. Move around in the pan with a cooking spoon so that they cook evenly. Add to the noodles when they are tender along with a spoon of reduced fat margarine for a creamy hit to the recipe.

This is a delicious and very easy noodle recipe that can be prepared so quickly.

There was a time when one of our sons visited and he is a vegetarian. My kitchen pantry was basically threadbare - so this is where I experimented with the Ramen Noodles to create the vegetable noodle dish. It turned out better than I had expected and it was a big hit - and I was certainly glad about that!

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