Tag: ellie krieger

When it comes to cooking, I almost always overestimate how much I need to cook. I think it comes from watching my mom cook – she is the youngest of six kids so there were always lots of people to feed in her household. We are both the same in that we would rather have too much left over than not enough, and that is especially true of family gatherings.

A coworker noted this week that all my food columns lately have been healthy recipes. He’s right that for the last month I have been trying to incorporate healthy meals for dinner and lunch most days of the week.

When it comes to recipes, there can be big differences in how many calories are packed into meals that have some of the same essential ingredients. In recent weeks, I tried out two chicken pot pie recipes that bring down the calorie count but still keep the food tasty.