My Avocado Egg Salad

I've been roaming pinterest the last few days looking for good solid low-calorie lunch ideas.  I stumbled across one that was located at Skinnytaste.com.  I'm book marking her site for future reference.  The recipe in question is Avocado Egg Salad.  I loved the idea and decided that was what I was going to make for lunch today.  I love egg salad, I have a particular way I make it.  Eggs, mayo, pickle relish and yellow mustard.  Simple and easy but I wanted to tone it down for this recipe.  Skinnytaste's recipe while good called for things I just did not have in the fridge like plain yogurt and red wine vinegar.  I don't like the taste of vinegar in my egg salad so that was an easy one to omit.  I also prefer Miracle Whip for myself and it has less calories than most light mayo's.  I also halved the recipe.

Here is my Avocado Egg Salad Recipe (Servings: 3, 1/2 cup each)

1/2 avocado - cubed
2 small boiled eggs - cut up
2 tsp of Miracle Whip
2 tsp of yellow mustard
A couple dashes of cinnamon
A dash of paprika
Salt and pepper
3 decent sized romaine leaves

In a bowl add the cut up avocado and eggs. Add to this the miracle whip, mustard, cinnamon, and paprika.  Stir together.  Salt and pepper to taste. Spoon evenly into lettuce leaves.

Seriously this was yum-o.  Wish I would have taken pictures. I ate all three servings but hold on...ALL three servings?!  The original recipe said one 1/2 cup serving was 155 calories, so eating three would be like 465 calories.  I try for under 300 per meal depending on how often I eat, so I thought was was me over doing it again until I sat down and calculated my recipe.  By switching out or omitting some ingredients; I was able to make 3 servings equal to only 279 calories!

Note: This difference may however have more to do with the scale I used to figure calories.  Avocados for instance have two difference calorie amounts at myfitnesspal.com and I used the one noted as "corrected from website" which was 278 calories for a medium hass avocado, while the other one listed was for 240g hass avocado at 332 calories.  If I break the original recipe down using my figures the calories per serving would be approx. 122 instead of 155.