Tip #19 Meatballs

I didn't grow up eating meatballs too often, but I have discovered how much I enjoy them.  I have also found how much I enjoy using frozen meatballs for a quick dinner.  When Franklin was born I got a Costco sized bag of Italian meatballs.  He's 5 months old and we are still using it.  One reason being that it contains about 140 meatballs. 5 meatballs is a serving, but I think 3 is plenty.  I cut them in half or even quarters to eat, they are so big.  Eating only 3 instead of 5 will also save you 8 grams of fat and 108 calories.  I know there are turkey meatballs out there with less fat and probably every bit as good, I just haven't tried any.  Today I discovered another trick to lower the fat of the ones I have.  Here's the backstory (there's always a backstory with me).  The last time I made meatballs with spaghetti sauce, I heated the meatballs in the sauce and thought the flavor of the meat totally overpowered the sauce.  So today I microwaved the meatballs on a plate by themselves and once I saw the pool of grease, I knew why heating them in the sauce is a bad idea.  I put the meatballs on a layer of paper towels and blotted the tops of them (further decreasing the fat) and served them as they should be:  Noodles on plate, meatballs in the middle and sauce on top (or as my 4 yr old would say:  boulders with lava flowing over the tops).

~Here's to Healthy Eating