Wednesday, June 23, 2010

My modified one-dish meal :D

And this is my modified dish! :D It is basically just the format with more added vitamins, fibres, etc. The dish as you can see above has more vegetables added as well. Here are the ingredients and the changes made:

Ingredients:
- Wholemeal wrap (tortilla) [from Quix]
- Lettuce

- Tomato
- Chicken Ham
- Trim Low-Fat Cheese [from Chesdale]
- Miracle Whip (All-Purpose Dressing) [from Kraft]




Changes made:
- Plain tortilla ---> Wholemeal Wrap
- 1 tomato added
- Honey Baked Ham ---> Chicken Ham
- Processed Cheese
---> Chesdale Trim (Low-fat cheese)
- Mayonnaise ---> Kraft Miracle Whip (All-Purpose Dressing)

I think that my modified dish is much healthier than the previous wrap, firstly because I have switched the original plain wrap with the wholemeal version. According to the nutrition information as stated in the packaging, plain tortilla has 210mg of sodium whereas wholemeal tortilla has 198 mg of sodium. Wholemeal version also has 0.9g more of dietary fibres as compared to the original one.

My modified dish has more dietary fibres as I had added half a tomato in.

I replaced the normal cheese slice with Chesdale Trim, which has 40% less fats than hi-calcium cheese and also contains Omega-3. This would reduce the total fat and saturated fat content, while still providing calcium in the meal.

Mayonnaise is widely known to be unhealthy due to the oil and high fat content, but it is rather hard for me to do away with some dressing and the additional flavour to the wrap. Hence, I replaced it with Kraft's Miracle Whip which is an all-purpose dressing and also contains 60% less fat than normal mayonnaise. And it does not taste bad at all!

I also replaced the honey baked ham with lean chicken ham as there is less fat in lean chicken meat as compared to pork.

Recipe Analysis

Ingredient

Energy (kcal)

Protein (g)

Total Fat (g)

Saturated Fat (g)

Cholesterol (mg)

Carbohydrate
(g)

Dietary Fibre (g)

Sodium (mg)

Wholemeal Tortilla

134

3.6

3.8

2.0

0

23.0

2.9

198

Raw Lettuce

4

0

0

0.0

0

1

0.1

3

Raw Tomato

15

1

0

0.0

0

2

0.3

11

Reduced fat cheddar cheese

65

6

5

2.9

14

0

0.0

144

Chicken Ham

46

8

2

0.6

22

0

0.0

669

Miracle Whip

45

0

4

0.3

5

3

0.1

180

Total

(per serving)

309

18.6

14.8

5.8

41

29

3.4

1205

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