Recommended Reading: Calorie counting on the food pages

You should read this post from the Weighty Matters blog about a suggestion to post nutritional information along with recipes printed in the Ottawa Citizen: **

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I wrote a letter to the editor of the Citizen "demanding" that the Citizen publish nutritional information for its Food Section recipes. I included in my letter the calorie, sodium, fat and sugar counts for that week's recipes and pointed out that it took me all of 5 minutes to make the calculations.

The letter didn’t get published and still the recipes are count free.

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So without further ado, this week’s recipes :

** Mixed-Grill Vegetable and Chick Pea Lasagna **

(per entire dish) 3,356 calories, 4,569mg sodium, 172gr fat (33g saturated), 39.7g sugar

• Fairly high in both calories and sodium.

** Blueberry Orange Muffins **

(per muffin) 240 calories, 286mg sodium, 14.5g sugar, 3.1g saturated fat

• Not terrible for a muffin. Would be much less on all counts if you substituted Splenda (wholly or partially) for sugar and apple sauce for oil.

** Whole Wheat Penne with Chicken, Wild Mushroom and Tomato Basil Pesto **

(per serving) 446 calories, 106.4mg sodium, 2.8g saturated fat 0.4g sugar

• A winner! Especially given the 11 grams of healthy unsaturated fat in the recipe.

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** Related: ** Ottawa Food Guide