Cheese Nachos - The Easy Diet Plan Lunch & Dinner Menus

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Cheese Nachos, Main Course - Most of the queso/cheese sauces found in the chip section contain about 40 calories per 1/4 cup (2 Tablespoons) which is very low in calories considering the cheesy blast! Add chips, peppers, light sour cream and one has a feast.

Simply heat the sauce, heat the chips and pour on the sauce. Top with your favorites if desired. Our calorie count and complete menu suggestion can be found below.

Side-Food Suggestions - Other great side dishes include canned beans, and bagged salad. Pickled foods also go extremely well with Cheese Nachos - much like the tang of sliced, pickled jalapeno peppers that many of us pile onto our nachos. So if you're a 'pickled nut', we suggest tasty pickled beets and one of our favorites - pickled okra.

Dairy accompaniments enhance the creamy cheese flavor of the nachos, so a great side is low fat cottage cheese.

Dessert - Flans and puddings are terrific with Mexican cuisine but tend to be high in calories. But there are several ways to have your flan and eat it too.....sorta like cake, isn't it? Just keep an eye out for prepared flans and puddings in the dairy section at the local market. Most contain about 100 calories - and taste good. Not excellent, but good. The single serving selections assist in keeping portions under control. Yes, they do cost more than a homemade version might, but are those extra 'empty sugar calories' worth all that effort, not to mention the Tempting Temptation Factor?

Another great dessert that goes well with Mexican cuisine is cinnamon and sugar coated popcorn. To keep calories low, as well as fat, use hot air popcorn - which by the way is very fun to make; next spray with no-calorie butter spray or use butter flavored cooking spray. Just a couple of short hisses will do. We just need enough Sticky Power so that the sugar and cinnamon will adhere to the popped corn.

Be sure to measure out the sugar, keeping in mind that it contains about 800 calories per cup. Minimize calorie content further by using Splenda or a mix of Splenda and sugar which can generally be found in the baking section of the market.

Calorie Count Total:

2 servings of cheese sauce (80 calories)

1 serving of chips (200 calories worth)

Jalapeno Peppers (or your favorite peppers), a serving of salsa and a serving of light sour cream* (about 60 calories)

1/2 cup of your favorite beans (about 110 calories)

Salad Mix of Shredded Lettuce, Chopped Tomato, Sliced Cucumber, Raw Sliced Onion and Balsamic Vinegar** (about 50 calories)

*If you use regular sour cream, add 20 more calories.

**Balsamic vinegar makes a delightful salad dressing and contains a scant 5 calories per serving!

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