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Spam and macaroni salad = healthful meal? ;)

Certainly, provided it is served with green salad or crudites on the side and followed by fresh fruit, all of which I stock up on when power outages are predicted.

Haven't you ever heard of pasta salad? This would appear to be another variant.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Yes, I just never thought of it as healthful. ;) Sorry to tease!

Well, a balanced diet requires a certain number of carbohydrates and fats, as well as fiber and vitamins.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

And don't forget, we also ingest an unspecified number of insects every day.

Higs, Katherine

Recipe????? You're kidding MOI -- right? We don't need no stinkin' recipe -- LOL! I will e-mail you the recipe -- I don't share this one with too many people. someday I want to enter the Spam cookoff in Hawaii and see if I can get beyond the booby prize -- LOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Oh thanks - I needed to think about that aspect of my daily dos...

C

It's protein.

Hmm.. Many, many years ago , my first cat's name was CiaoMeow.. She was a beautiful Russian Blue, with a temperment to match..

me

Corned beef I still have and eat. And the family still enjoys rissles (sp). I don't make them anymore, too time consuming, but I do love a rissle every now and then.

Murielle

Yes indeed. I buy both that and vienna sausages regularly, to donate to the food pantry collection at church. It seems the homeless people are very fond of those two, as well as peanut butter, because they can pop open a can without tools, then spread the contents on bread or crackers which they also acquired at the food pantry. Of course, those who spend their days trudging the streets, carrying or pulling all their worldly goods with them, do not have to worry about the high fat content, they need all those calories. (And they don't worry about the preservatives, most of them figure they are going to die young anyway.)

Which part of town are you from?

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

Olwyn Mary6/25/07 7:33 PM

I would never turn up my nose (tongue?) at SPAM--the edible kind--because it just sits there on the shelf and KEEPs until I get ready to use it, unlike something like bananas that spoils almost before I get them home from the store.

I have had very good luck fixing Spam for picky eaters by fixing it the same way I would a real ham--with brown sugar, mustard, wine vinegar, etc. and baking it in the oven. Try it with your favorite baked ham recipe--maybe add a pineapple slice or two, and you might be pleasantly surprised!

Lilajane

As much as SPAM is convenient it isn't healthy:

A 56 gram (approx. 2 ounce) serving has:

- 15 grams of fat (23% recommended daily intake) of which 6 grams is saturated (28%recommended daily intake)

- over 174 calories (137 of which come from fat)

- 767mg sodium (nearly a third of the recommended daily intake of salt)

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Indeed it is!

Higs, Katherine

Higs, Katherine

Recipe? You want recipes?

Campbell's Soup had this recipe in their cookbook eons ago, and it's one of my favorites. If you don't like Spam, you can also use regular ham.

Dump into the bottom of a casserole dish 2 cans sliced potatoes (or the equivalent in fresh potatoes you've peeled/sliced yourself), 1 can peas,

1 can cream of mushroom soup (or cheddar cheese soup or cream of celery). Stir to mix.

Top with 1 can of Spam/ham, sliced. The top of my casserole accommodates 6 slices of Spam side-by-side, so I cut them rather thickly. If yours will fit more slices, cut them thinner.

Stick it in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour at 425. It's done when the Spam/ham is nicely browned.

Goes well with cornbread. Goes well with cheese melted on top of the leftovers.

Yep. XH was put on a low-sodium diet, and we discovered that when they took out the salt, they generally replaced it with fat or sugar, so the packaged foods that screamed "low sodium" were no healthier overall; often had more calories than the full-salt version.