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Filed in $10 Dinners, Meatless Meals on July 12, 2010 with no comments
It was almost dinner time, my husband was hungry, the cupboard was nearly bare, and I was feeling lazy. Some (ok – most) people would take the opportunity to order out. But vegetarian options are quite slim here in Eastern Washington, so I searched through my freezer and came up with a box of Morningstar Farms new Grillers Chik’n, vegetarian cutlets.
The cutlets have good texture and are made mostly from soy and wheat gluten. Unlike lots of vegetarian cutlets, these lack a fatty breading, and they only have 350 mg of sodium, which isn’t bad at all. (You can find them in the freezer section at your grocers.)
Not content to just serve a bare cutlet, I…
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