.jpg)
My honey travels for work occasionally. Sometimes on those nights, I have cereal for dinner. Okay, often on those nights, I have cereal for dinner. Okay, okay - almost without exception on those nights, I have cereal for dinner. But it never fails ~ an hour and a half after my cereal dinner, I'm back in the kitchen, scrounging around for something else to eat. Anything else to eat.
Not a good situation.
So this time, I vowed to make a meal.
I decided to make Crispy Baked Tofu Sticks, inspired by Poor Girl Eats Well. They're pretty good. Dipped in a mixture of ketchup, Siracha, and Garlic Mrs Dash - they're REALLY good.
I sliced my 12 oz block of extra firm tofu into 8 slices, pressed it between paper towels, then cut each slice in half to make sticks. A serving is 1/4 of the block of tofu, or 4 sticks.
I lightly coated them with a mixture of corn starch, a little salt, and plenty of pepper and Chipotle Mrs Dash.
I dipped them in a little plain almond milk, (-no picture of this step, oops)
and rolled them around in some Italian flavored bread crumbs.
I put them on a foil covered cookie sheet coated with cooking spray and baked them at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes, turning them over at the halfway point.
And since I already had the oven on, I made some sweet potato fries too.
After I cut up my sweet potato, I threw it into a zip lock bag with a little corn starch, a little salt, plenty of pepper, and shook it around. Then I added a little olive oil and shook it around again. I spread them out on another foil covered cookie sheet and baked them at 400 degrees for about 40 minutes, turning them over at the halfway point.
I made some spicy ketchup sauce
and a little spinach salad to go along with my finger food entrees.
 |
| Let's eat! |
And the nutritional info of my dinner:
Tofu sticks (including breading mixture) 1 serving or 4 sticks: about 126 cals, 11.4 g carbs, 5 g fat, 9 g pro, 2.3 g fiber
Sweet Potato Fries (made from 1 medium sized - and yes, I ate the whole thing): about 234 cals, 36.2 g carbs, 9.1 g fat, 2.3 g pro, 4.4 g fiber
Spicy Ketchup (2 Tbsp): about 30 cals, 9.6 g carbs, negligible fat, pro, or fiber
Spinach Salad (about 1.5 cups) with mandarin oranges, green onion, sliced almonds, and Walden Farms Calorie Free Dressing: about 94 cals, 11 g carbs, 4.4 g fat, 3.8 g pro, 3.6 g fiber
For a nutritional total of about:
484 calories
68.6 grams of carbohydrates
18.6 grams of fat (but only 2 of those being saturated fat, the rest were the heart healthy variety - yay!!)
15.6 grams of protein
10.4 grams of fiber
It was plenty of food. And I didn't scrounge around afterward. Not even a little. :)
Oh, and by the way - can I just say? Clean up was super simple too. You know those foil covered cookie sheets? Money.
Dinner home alone - ain't so bad.