My husband loves these meals in a box, they are pretty simple to make too, not the most healthy meal you will ever have, but I tweek this to make it a bit more healthy.

As it stands Banquet Homestyle Bakes Beef Chili with beans & cornbread has 360 calories per serving with 10 grams of fat- which makes up 25% fat from calories. Each box states it contains 4.5 servings. It takes between 32-36 minutes if its made exactly per the directions. Open the two cans of chili, put in a pan, add 3/4s cup of water to the cornbread mix, stir and spoon on top of the chili and bake.  But I cant leave well enough alone, when I open the two cans of chili I also open one can of corn and one can of black beans, I drain off the corn and the black beans and mix them into the chili, then I add a bit more than 3/4s of a cup of water to the cornbread mix to make it spread just a little further. And I bake this for 40 minutes.

With my additions the entire batch has 2260 calories and 50.25 grams of fat which means it has dropped to 20% calories from fat! This now feeds a lot more than 4 people now, I can generally get two meals out of this for my entire family.

Posted by Shelley in Low Fat Finds on April 4th, 2007 |