Hamburgers

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One night this week, we had hamburgers.  We buy the pre-formed, Wal-Mart brand patties.  They are 45mg per patty.  This is great!
And since they are so low, we can do more.  We have put them in a pan with low sodium brown gravy, grilled them, and baked them.  We put a chunk of cheese between 2 patties, patted them together to make a jumbo patty, and grilled them.  The weather this week has been beautiful!

We put these on the "Food Lion Hamburger Buns", as shown below.  These are 180mg per bun! 
When we grill a single patty, we often use the "Pepperidge Farm Golden Potato Slider Buns".  These babies are 135mg per bun!

We also make fries to go with our burgers.  Up until about 6 months ago, we would make our own fries - potatoes cut to fry shape, tossed with olive oil and Mrs. Dash, and baked.  But we happened to do a label check one day and stumbled upon "Nathan's Famous Jumbo Crinkle Cut French Fries".  These fries are amazing!  They taste good, the price isn't overboard, and they are only 15mg for 14 fries!  That means, even if you eat the entire bag, you are only at 135mg!

Once again, I will say that even though the sodium is low, remember that doesn't mean its also low calories.  If you DID eat the whole bag, you would consume almost 1000 calories!  Just be cautious when calculating your intake.

And why eat fries with nothing to dip them in?  And for that, I highly recommend "Hunt's No Salt Added Tomato Ketchup".  0mg per tablespoon!  Enjoy!

More recipes to come using those great burgers!

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