my favorite vegan noodles & gravy dish

Note: I used to eat noodles and gravy as a kid like nobody's business!! Everytime I went to Grandma's I wanted noodles and gravy. Here is my vegan swing on things.


P.S. I had already eaten almost half of the noodles and used less than 1/2 can gravy!! So when I explain my servings, the bowl had been full to the top with noodles...

Besides the fact that everyone at work is starting their 'diet' this week, I'm starting to really look into what we're eating and how to create the perfect, well-rounded vegan meals. I thought I was doing the right thing by buying these 'tricolor' noodles .. (maybe pasta in general is just really THIS packed full of carbs) .. but here is the breakdown of what I was making tonight.

Ingredients:
1 box tricolor twisty noodles
1 can Campbell's mushroom gravy
1 bag Gardein "beefless" beef tips

The noodles are pretty crazy:
328 carbs
56 grams of protein,
1680 calories,
8 grams of fat.
I probably eat 1/3the box at a time that makes it..
109 carbs,
19g protein
560 calories,
<3g fat
mushroom gravy is.. (whole can)..
5 grams of fat,
100 calories,
15 carbs..
cut in 1/2,
2.5 grams of fat,
50 calories,
7.5 carbs. not bad.

beeftips
45g protein,
17.5 carbs,
6g fat,
300 calories....
soooo in half again
22.5 grams protein,
8.75 carbs,
3g fat,
150 calories.


GRAND TOTAL: (1/3 regular box of noodles, 1/2 can gravy, half bag beeftips)


41.5g protein (someone my weight should eat a little under 50g a day optimally, so almost done this meal alone ;D)

125 carbs--not terrible but still more than Marc should have in one meal (diabetic, supposed to have about 75carbs three times a day)

about 8g fat--really good I think!!!

1010 calories (half daily intake) which seems a lot but dinner IS my biggest meal of the day


Hmm.. I need to go look at pastas and see if there's anything with lower carbs that would be better for us to eat. I do like that it is high in protein, though.