Healthy Choice
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I know IKEA is a giant global furniture chain, but before researching these great little balls of meat, I wasn't aware that IKEA is also one of the world's largest food retailers. At the very top of the list of the most popular menu items at the stores' cafeteria-style IKEA Restaurant & Bistro, are the Swedish Meatballs which are consumed at a rate of 150 million each year. The meatballs are moist and delicious and come smothered in a cream sauce and served with a side of lingonberry jam. But if you don't' feel like working your way through the giant rat maze of furniture that is the ingenious layout of each store to get to a place of these meatballs, you can now make them at home with very little effort.
Get the full recipe in Todd Wilbur's "Top Secret Recipes Step-by-Step" cookbook.
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It was a heart attack that inspired Charles M. Harper of ConAgra Foods to come up with a new product line. In 1988, the Healthy Choice brand introduced frozen dinners with reduced fat, sodium, and cholesterol. Hundreds of other products followed through the '90s, including this fat-free pasta sauce, which hit stores in 1992. It's a cinch to make and goes great on any pasta, pizza, or meatball sandwich.
Nutrition Facts
Serving size–1/2 cup
Total servings–5
Calories per servings–50
Fat per serving–0gSource: Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur.
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Healthy Choice was one of the first low-fat brands to hit the stores. The Wall Street Journal reported in 1993, "When Healthy Choice dinners first arrived in stores, big competitors were caught off guard: nothing quite like it had ever been marketed on a large scale." But nowadays the competition ain't so lean. You'll find more than a dozen brands devoted to the same low-fat, healthy claims in stores, all fighting it out for shelf space and market share.
If you like your marinara sauce with big chunks of veggies in it, then this is the one you'll want to make. The canned tomatoes, plus fresh mushrooms, onion, and garlic make for a thicker sauce that works great over your favorite pasta dish.
Nutrition Facts
Servings size–1/2 cup
Total servings–5
Calories per serving–45
Fat per serving–0gSource: Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur.
I'm Todd Wilbur,
Chronic Food Hacker
For 30 years I've been deconstructing America's most iconic brand-name foods to make the best original clone recipes for you to use at home. Welcome to my lab.