Don't Bake, But Fry Thanksgiving Turkeys, Says the Home Depot

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The agency is seeking donations of small turkeys or fryer chickens (weighing about 3 pounds), boxed potatoes, gravy, canned sweet potatoes, Jell-O, canned fruit, small juices, stuffing, canned cranberries, soup, canned pumpkin, desserts, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Goods can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays at the Silver Key office, 2250 Bott Ave., Colorado Springs. For more information call Pat at 632-1521, Ext. 52.Banquet's Fat Free Baked Breast Tenders were delicious, as were Butterball Chicken Requests Crispy Baked Breast Tenders. But the clear winner was Health is Wealth Chicken Tenders, which had a delightful buttery aftertaste.For less sodium (400 mg to 470 mg) and more flavor, head for Tyson Time Trimmers Southwest Seasoned Chicken Breast Strips, Perdue Italian or Southwestern Seasoned Short Cuts Carved Chicken Breast, Easy Beginnings Fajita or Garlic & Herb Sliced Chicken Breast, or Easy Beginnings Barbeque Chicken Breast Filets.They're hot, and we don't mean just spicy. They're flying out of restaurant kitchens from Miami to Seattle. Even Domino's and Pizza Hut dish them up.Deep Fryer: Consider the 7-piece Bayou Classic, available at The Home Depot for $99. The fryer kit, which holds up to a 25-pound turkey, also may be used to fry other foods like fish or potatoes. You'll also need a tank of propane fuel and a meat thermometer.Wings- Headline by Rhonda Van PeltBut just because a burger's made of poultry doesn't automatically mean it's good for you. A Wampler Barbeque Turkey Burger, for example, will set you back four grams of saturated fat. That's almost twice as much as many other turkey burgers. (It could lose a gram or so when you cook it, though.)Temperature: The oil should be maintained at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It takes about three and a half minutes per pound to cook. The average 12-pound turkey may be cooked in less than an hour.Tyson and Banquet make breaded fat-free patties that are baked, not fried. Eat one instead of the companies' regular patties and you'll save 13 grams of fat, three of them saturated.Nature's Kitchen is graphic proof that adding salt isn't the only way to flavor. Check the ingredient lists. You'll find things like balsamic vinegar, mango marinade, ginger, and cilantro. And that means taste galore for an outrageously low 80 mg of sodium. (One more reason to hightail it to your nearest health food store: Nature's Kitchen's chickens are raised without the use of antibiotics.)

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