Feel indulgent while sticking to your weight-loss goals with this creamy mushroom pasta. Our Recipe Makeover means it has far less calories and fat than traditional creamy pastas.

About this Recipe Makeover

Traditional creamy pasta dishes have oodles of fat and calories. The healthier Pasta with Creamy Mushroom Sauce uses fresh herbs and low-fat sour cream, Canadian bacon and less shell pasta.

If nonfat sour cream is available, you can use it instead of low-fat sour cream (calories 327, KJ 1369, fat 2 g, sat.fat 0 g, chol 11 g).

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• 2 slices Canadian bacon or links of lean turkey bacon, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 4 flat mushrooms, sliced
• 7 oz low-fat sour cream
• 3 cup shell pasta, cooked
• 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
• 1 Tbsp fresh thyme leaves

• 2 thick slices bacon, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 4 flat mushrooms, sliced
• 7 oz sour cream (or heavy cream)
• 4 cup shell pasta, cooked
• 1 pinch black pepper
• 1 tsp ground thyme

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