{"id":30041,"date":"2012-04-04T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2012-04-01T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T22:35:59","slug":"tuna-noodle-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=30041","title":{"rendered":"Tuna Noodle Casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuna Noodle Casserole is one of my favorite casseroles. I used to make it a lot because it was so easy and it tasted great. I loved the crunchy topping of toasted breadcrumbs and butter and the oozing cheese baked inside the noodles. Who couldn’t love that? Well, Michael for one. He is such a picky eater. And while I don’t dictate my food according what he likes (if I did, I’d be eating pizza and hot dogs every day!), I haven’t really made this casserole for years because it’s a lot of work to make a meal for just one person.<\/p>\n

On Sunday I had a friend coming over to do some video work with me. My friend Kat was going to help me get my KATU news interview<\/a> from January off the DVR and onto a disc that I could post here and share with other people. I was so glad she offered to help! She got her degree in video editing so I knew she’d be good at it. I offered to make us lunch and decided I’d do a tuna casserole.
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Sunday morning I slept in and then went swimming in the pool to stretch out my mega sore muscles from weight lifting. I hurried home and then started cooking so that I’d have the casserole in the oven before Kat came over.<\/p>\n

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I had my own tuna casserole recipe but I went to the internets to find a lower calorie version. The above recipe is what I found. Around 300 calories a serving is okay by me. I was also looking forward to having a lot of leftovers for lunches during the work week. I did not have Mrs. Dash’s seasoning and I left out the mushrooms but for the most part I followed the recipe.<\/p>\n

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It was really easy to do. I halved the recipe and it still made a TON of food, so keep that in mind when making this dish. I cooked the past and then mixed it all together with the rest of the creamy ingredients. I also added some shredded cheese to the mixture, even though the recipe din’t call for that so my version is probably a little higher in calories.<\/p>\n

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I also used the crumbs from the crouton bag to top the casserole with some crunchiness. And I was glad I added that–it really made the recipe even better.<\/p>\n

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The verdict of the recipe: it was really good but it needed more tuna. Halving the recipe I only used one can of tuna and it really needed two. I also would mix all of the recipe’s cheese in the dish instead of using it just on top because the casserole needed a “glue” to hold it all together.<\/p>\n

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I kid you not when I say HALF of the recipe makes a massive amount of food. I have no idea how the recipe’s creators calculated their servings because not only did Kat and I have a big serving each for lunch, I had leftovers for four days worth of lunches!<\/p>\n

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Kat is going to work on the video clips and I hope that soon I will have something to share with you guys. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s your favorite casserole recipe?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuna Noodle Casserole is one of my favorite casseroles. I used to make it a lot because it was so easy and it tasted great. I loved the crunchy topping of toasted breadcrumbs and butter and the oozing cheese baked inside the noodles. Who couldn’t love that? Well, Michael for one. He is such a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2124,315,104,107,1949,1785,3205,160,212,2932],"tags":[5806,1940,5660,742,743,3193,8667,934,5807,2936],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_5493.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30202,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions\/30202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}