I tried making the Sweet and Sour Meatballs from the Knorr Recipies once, but two-three meatballs plus the soup/sauce is your entire dinner if you are counting calories. Would be nice to have some lower calorie ones :D

cool!

i like to buy the non-meat meatballs from the grocery store

they are so low fat its crazy! and they taste like meat

i like to bake them in pasta. try it out!

Any sort of ground beef needs to be cooked to an internal temperature of 165F degrees before it'll kill anything that may be lurking inside there. Any food operator in the US has this knowledge drilled into them.

While it is perfectly acceptable to undercook your meat at home, I find it irresponsible for a recipe posted on the internet to advise under cooking them and to not include a warning about undercooked meat. Especially if there is poultry involved.

I was surprised how caloric meatballs were at Fazoli's. But baking them yourself w/ extra lean meat isn't too bad. And if you like lean ground turkey, I'm sure you could come up w/ a lower fat recipe.(I like recipezaar.com for looking up recipes. :) )

Original Post by: nebichan

I tried making the Sweet and Sour Meatballs from the Knorr Recipies once, but two-three meatballs plus the soup/sauce is your entire dinner if you are counting calories. Would be nice to have some lower calorie ones :D

I like making my meatballs with lean ground turkey - have you tried that yet?? Sweet and sour I find tends to be high in sugar as well. I make a turkey meatball (sorry, no real recipe, I'm one of those cooks), bake them on parchment paper, and then cook them in pasta sauce. I'm not a huge beef fan so it works great for me. I just throw together lean ground turkey, bread crumbs (stouffers chicken stuffing blended fine works great, adds nice flavor), chives (or diced onion), an egg, pepper, paprika, and garlic paste. Sometimes I'll toss in rosemary, oregano or basil depeding on the sauce I use. I hope that helps!

turkey meat balls are sooo good! agreed! also, turkey lettuce wraps are amazing and super low cal as a substitute for taco night! ok im getting off topic now, we were talking about meat balls...

Hello Everyone!

Try making meatballs with buffalo/bison meat! It's much healthier and tastes great! Some farms feed their bison only grass, most supplement with grain. Look for the ones that don't use hormones and antibiotics on their animals.

The info above is from highplainsbison.com

Check at your local natural foods store or a food co-op for a supplier; you can buy it online at many places,or order with some friends to split the shipping costs. Thebuffaloguys.com also have lots of buffalo options. Some Kroger stores have thebuffaloguys products. At some Schnuck's stores you can order in buffalo from nearby states. Schnuck's in Urbana, IL orders from Sayersbrook.com in Missouri. Try it, you'll like it!

Ciao for now!

This site won't let me post the info, so check out these websites for the nutrition facts...

http://www.highplainsbison.com/GoldenBison/Health_Nutrition/ nutrition_info.jsp

http://www.americangourmet.net/americangourmetnutritionalinf ormation.aspx

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Meatballs made with ground chicken are delicious. Personally I like them better than turkey. A little bit more moist. Just add onion catchup, italian flavored panko bread crumbs, an egg, and a touch of milk. I think the secret is to mix all the ingredients except the chicken, then add the chicken and mix just until incorporated. Try it you'll like it!

Ground Turkey is awesome. I work in a grocery store, and we carry butterball turkey stuff, like turkey italian sausage, turkey breakfast sausages, ground turkey and ground turkey breast (99% lean!!!).

A day before the SELL BY date on the packs, our meat department marks those items down 30%, on the actual SELL BY day they will be 50% marked down. So I am always checking on them and if we have some, I usually buy them all up (normally not more than 3 packs at once) and throw them in the freezer.

I make my turkey meatballs with italian style bread crumbs, a lot of garlic  either fresh crushed or powder if I'm out of the fresh stuff (garlic and ground turkey goes so well together), rosemary, a dash of black pepper and a bit of water.

And yes, just like leyaussie said, any meat balls/meat loaf turns out better if you mix all the ingredients but the meat first, let it sit for 30 minutes and then add the meat. If you let this sit another hour before cooking (I bake my meatballs) the flavors will be even more intense.