simply sara remix

Simply Sara is something my husband found while looking at videos on YouTube one day. This video is crazy. By the time she is done making the pasta salad the calorie count is 6805 with 358 grams of fat of which 68 of those are saturated fat. Its scary. The only issue I have is with this macaroni salad. The dressing she puts on the salad is ridiculously unhealthy and scary.

She starts the dressing with one whole can of sweetened condensed milk, one whole cup of white sugar, one whole cup of white vinegar, one whole jar of mayonnaise!!!

This alone is when I started to get leery of this recipe. Then she begins to whisk up this concoction and I can begin to feel my arteries clog up through the world wide web. Its scary she put the ingredients in one macaroni salad that sometimes takes months for others to use up.

Then she adds one whole pound of cooked elbow macaroni. As she begins to mix the macaroni around with the dressing and it looks more like soup than it does a salad. Then all for vegetables she adds a green pepper, celery, onion, and a half bag of shredded carrots.

Then as she adds salt and pepper and takes a taste of it she comments on how to not worry about the amount of dressing as once it sets in the fridge a bit it will absorb right into the macaroni.

Again, I want to reiterate the only item I take issue with is the insane amount of calories this has in it. A total of 6805 calories is more than some people eat in a few days. Obviously, she is not going to eat this all at once. But, lets say for a second that the whole bowl 10 people enjoy it that is 680 or so calories per serving.

So I decide to do a Simply Sarah Remix and make it the Top Notch Eats way !!!

Your ingredients begin with a few key pieces and end with a

whole lot of vegetables !!!

1. 1 pound of cooked barilla plus elbow macaroni - 1470 calories

2. 1/3 cup reduced fat mayo - 140 calories

3. 1/3 cup fat free plain yogurt - 70 calories

4. 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil - 200 calories

5. 2 tbs of red wine vinegar - 5 calories

6. 1 clove of garlic minced - 5 calories

7. 1 cup of cheery tomatoes - 45 calories

8. 1 red pepper chopped - 40 calories

9. 1 green pepper chopped - 33 calories

10. 1 cup grated carrots (4 carrots) - 120 calories

11. 1/3 cup of chopped fresh basil - 15 calories

12. 1 small head of broccoli - 30 calories

13. 1 small red onion - 50 calories

14. 1 small can of sliced black olives - 100 calories

For a grand total of 2,323 calories a difference of 4,482 calories. That means if say 10 people share my pasta salad that is 232 calories or so per serving.

So chop up everything in the list, cook your pasta, mix your dressing, add some salt and pepper then enjoy the non-artery clogging pasta salad.

Here are some images from my trip down healthy macaroni salad heaven.....

ENJOY !!!