These meatballs are a healthy alternative for people who cannot eat beef. They are still very moist and delicious and all of my friends who used to insist turkey meatballs would be horrible are now big fans.

Ingredients:

1 pound ground turkey. We use 93% fat free. 99% fat free is still a tiny bit dry.

2 tablespoons Parmesian cheese

1/4 teaspoon dried parsley

1 tablespoon onion, chopped fine

1/4 cup cracker crumbs

1 egg

1/4 cup milk

Directions:

1. Mix all of the ingredients together.

2. Form balls that are about one and a half to two inches around.

3. Brown the meatballs in a bit of oil or in a non-stick pan coated with non-stick spray for about seven minutes. Make sure they don't burn. We turn them over after a few minutes so they are browned evenly.

4. Add the meatballs to your favorite sauce and cook them for three additional minutes. This gives them some of the sauce's flavor, as well.

If you find yourself wasting meatballs or you hate to cook, freezing meatballs for later is a great idea. For people who don't enjoy cooking, the best way to start is to make two batches of meatballs at once.

Cook your meatballs as you normally would, right up to the point where you'd drop them in the sauce. Instead of putting them in sauce, drain them and let them cool. Then, stick them on a cookie tray in your freezer for about an hour. When they are frozen, pop them off the cookie tray and bag them up in meal sized portions. I use my vaccuum sealer to suck out the extra air so they don't get freezer burned. (Pre-freezing your meatballs on the cookie sheets keeps them from sticking together and forming an unintentional meatloaf.)

Now, any time you get the urge for a meatball sub, grab a bag of frozen meatballs, thaw them, heat them in your favorite sauce and you're ready to go.