Fettucini Alfredo

Health Factor
Fettucini Alfredo Smart Ones meals do not have too many calories. That is great news for men and women who are dieting and trying to lose weight. This frozen dinner is also low in fat and contains less cholesterol than other meals. Calcium is the majority of nutritional value contained in Fettucini Alfredo Smart Ones meals. Overall, this is a healthy choice for lunch or dinner.

Quality
I was happy with quality of the sauce and noodles in this Fettucini Alfredo Smart Ones meal. However, the sauce could be improved. Some portions of the sauce were watery, removing any desire to eat this frozen dinner. It was suggested that mixing the contents up more would improve the solidness of this sauce. Instead, I chose to separate the watery portion from the rest of this Smart Ones meal. Doing so helped significantly. Broccoli florets are included in the Fettucini Alfredo Smart Ones meal. They are plentiful and adequately sized.

Taste Test
Fettucini Alfredo Smart Ones meals are very tasty. There is enough content to fill you up and satisfy your appetite. The sauce tastes good, despite the runny sections. It is actually one of the better Fettucini Alfredo offerings that are at the grocery store. Everyone cannot make good Fettucini Alfredo. Therefore, it can be even more difficult to produce a frozen meal of this type. Smart Ones have done a good job at re-creating a great tasting Italian favorite.

Food - Do You Know Your Pasta?

Have you ever noticed that when you go out to eat at an Italian restaurant, or even to your favorite grocery store, the choices of pasta is nearly limitless? There is every kind of different shape and size of pasta that you can imagine. Truly, it can be overwhelming at times trying to figure it all out. What are all these different kinds of pasta for? How can you determine what is what? Let's take a closer look at all the various kinds of pasta and what they are used for.

Spaghetti. This is an easy one. It's one food that we all know and love. Spaghetti comes in a box, or a bag, in long thin strands. You cook it in boiling water and mix it into your favorite spaghetti sauce recipe.

Ravioli. Here is another pretty easy one for everybody. Ravioli is a small, square shaped pasta that is stuffed with several different fillings like meat, cheese, mushrooms, sausage, etc. Ravioli can be topped with tomato sauce and can even come toasted.

Macaroni. One of the all-time favorites! Macaroni is a small, hollow tube pasta. It is used mainly in cooking macaroni and cheese.

Cannelloni. Cannelloni is also a hollow tube pasta, but it is much larger than macaroni. Cannelloni is stuffed with different meat sauce mixtures and also will have various cheeses baked in the middle.

Linguine and Fettuccine. These pastas are know as ribbon noodles due to the fact they are long, stringy and flat. They can come in many different lengths. These noodles are a delicious food with creamy sauces mixed onto them such as Alfredo sauce.