A Cool Way to Control Portion Size

While talking to people, I find that although a lot of them eat fairly healthy food, they tend to wreck it by eating massive portions. My roommate is the worst about it. He eats pretty well, but then he'll come home craving mac 'n cheese, and decide that since he ate well all week, he could afford the treat. But then he eats the entire pot in one sitting.

I too am a mac 'n cheese fan, and I recently came across this really cool way to make sure that you only eat a small portion. You can bake your mac 'n cheese (or other things, like meatloaf) in a muffin tin! Then you only get a muffin-sized portion. Plus, it looks kind of fancy. :)

It's easy to do. Just prepare any mac n' cheese recipe (Rocco Dispirito has a good low cal one), but cook your noodles two minutes less than the recipe instructions. Then, spoon your mixture into your muffin tin, sprinkle with panko bread crumbs and back at 350 for 15-20 minutes. Let it sit for 10 minutes before removing them from the pan with a spatula. Voila!

Cute, right?