I'm all for recipes that look and taste like the "real" thing but are better for you, so I was thrilled to see this article in yesterday's New York Times which also includes a recipe for mac n cheese!
"Researchers at Penn State University found that adding vegetable purée to various recipes [resulted in feeling] full after eating fewer calories, allowing the vegetable purée mixtures to act as natural appetite suppressants."
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/recipes-to-curb-appetites/
Enjoy.
