Adventures in Healthy Eating: Tofu Shirataki

During the Your Shape Challenge, Collective Bias was nice enough to send me the Hungry Girl Cookbook. This is where I first heard about Tofu Shirataki. I mean, if you can dedicate a whole chapter in your healthy food book around 1 product, then it must be good, right?

So what exactly is Tofu Shirataki?

It's a noodle made out of tofu and yam flour. There are only 40 calories for the whole bag, 1 gram of fat and 3g carbs or sugar!!

I should start this post by saying I am not a tofu eater. I recently started a new diet plan, the Fat Smash Diet, where I am not allowed to eat meat for the first 9 days.

The noodles intrigued me and they were easy to find- both Publix and Super Target carry them for around $2.29 a bag.

For my first tofu noodle concoction I chose to make a stir-fry. I purchased the Tofu Shirataki (spaghetti size), a head of broccoli, whole mushrooms, low sodium soy sauce and a navel orange.

The prep on the Tofu Shirataki is critical. YOU MUST RINSE THE NOODLES THROUGHLY AND THEN MICROWAVE FOR 1 MINUTE, if not, they smell like rotten fish. Once you rinse, microwave and dry the noodles they smell fine.

You then use the noodle like any other cooked noodle. In a few minutes I had this-

And it was delicious. The noodles look just like ramen without the fat. The texture is definitely different than ramen or spaghetti- more chewy. Like other tofu products, the flavor of the noodle is pretty tasteless and picks up the flavor of the dish. I was VERY skeptical of these noodles, but I will be buying again. I fed this meal to my daughter and didn't tell her the noodles were tofu, she had no clue and ate them all.

Tofu Shirataki Success!