Fitting pasta into your diet (recipe included)

For many people who have been watching their weight, one of the first foods to be banished from their diets is pasta. Pasta is a low fat food, one serving (about 2 oz.) provides only 1 gram of fat. However, most people eat 3-4 times that amount at one sitting, which really elevates the calories and carbohydrate content. Not only that, but regular “white” pasta does not contain fiber or whole grains.

Fear not, several new varieties of pasta have been hitting the supermarket shelves in recent years. Dreamfields makes pasta that contains a unique fiber and protein blend to help reduce the amount of Read more