Subsitute It! Fries

This week I'm talking about French fries. Now, we all know (or at least I HOPE we do) that French fries are one of THE worst possible foods we could eat. Literally dripping with artery-clogging fat and oil, this fast food item is definately a No-No.

Let's take a look at a the nutritional information for a typical medium-size order of McDonald's French Fries:

Are you still looking? Or did you cover your eyes in fright and dismay? Can you BELIEVE all the fat, sodium and calories present in such a small box of manufactured spuds?

You can hardly even call it a potato any more!

So if you shouldn't eat french fries, what can you eat instead? Have I got a solution for YOU!

Try SWEET POTATO FRIES.

If you browse your frozen food section, you'll find several varieties of frozen sweet potato fries. Now, you can make them completely from scratch if you so desire. But be warned! Sweet potatoes are a distant cousin of ROCKS (well, maybe not but they SHOULD be and you DO dig them out of the ground!) and therefore VERY HARD to cut raw into thin slices.

I know. I've tried.

So if you ask me, buying them pre-sliced is worth it. And when I compared the price of a bag of sweet potato fries to buying it in the natural form, pound for pound the price wasn't that much different.

So what you do is this: Cut open that bag of frozen sweet potato fries. Dump onto a cookie sheet and unceremoniously stuff it into a preheated oven at 400 degrees for roughly 15 minutes. Bake until crispy. Remove and sprinkly with sea salt.

Ta-da!

Fast, easy, nutritious and you don't have to stand at the stove dodging squirting grease from a pan!

I made these tonight with turkey burgers. SOOO good. The fries were salty, crunchy and just a little bit sweet.

The perfect compliment to a healthy burger.

Nutritional Information for Sweet Potato Fries:

Serving size = 3 oz.

71 total calories (Carbs= 63 calories, protein= 8 calories)
2 g of protein

0 g fat of any type!!! (This includes saturated fats, unsaturated fats and trans fats)

0 cholesterol.
16 g of carbohydrates (10 g of starch, 3 g of sugar and 3 g of dietary fiber)
22% of the daily value for vitamin A

4 % of the daily value for vitamin C.
108 mg of sodium

282 mg of potassium

3 % of the daily value for iron

2 % of the daily value for calcium

So if you are going to eat French Fries, make sure you make these nutritious Sweet Potato Fries at home!!!!