I love these! When the local grocery store had a sale on Healthy Choice entrees we loaded up on them. At 8/$10, they were hard to pass up. I bought a bunch of the Supreme French Bread Pizza’s, and some of the Pepperoni French Bread Pizza’s. We went back later, but they were out of the Supreme French Bread Pizzas. I got a rain check for 24 of them. I went back later, and got another 6 of them. I need to stop back and pick some more up, as I am almost out them in our freezer at home.
The Supreme French Bread Pizza’s (with notfat & reduced fat mozzarella cheese, low fat suasage, reduces fat pepperoni, and vegetables) has 340 calories, 4 grams of fat, and 600mg of sodium. Weight Watches counts them as 6 points.
The microwave time is 2 minutes 15 seconds. They need to be microwaved in the box after the plastic wrapper is removed. Besides the pepperoni, and sausage, there are red peppers, green peppers, and I think onions. You need to let it cool down a bit as it is hot out of the microwave. They taste very good! And they are relatively filling. I have been eating them for breakfast. And out of 340 calories, only 40 come from fat! Thats less than 12%!!!! Yummy! There are also 20 grams of protien, and 53 grams of carbs!
I will definately buy more of these!
Since I have a freezer full of the Healthy Choice entrees, I brought several to work to today. I had planned of eating one for breakfast (the Supreme French Bread Pizza), and one for lunch. I ate the Cheesy Chicken & Rice, and was still hungry. So I decided to heat up the other entree I had in the freezer, the Macaroni & Cheese.
The Healthy Choice Macaroni & Cheese comes with the carrot & broccoli medley for the vegetable. There was about 3 minutes of microwave time along with taking it out one time to stir. It has 4 grams of fat, and 210 calories. There are 600mg of sodium. Weight Watchers counts this as 4 points.
The texture of the macaroni and cheese is very good. It’s nice and creamy. The taste is pretty good, especially considering it is low fat. I would prefer the tast of Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese, but I am guessing it isn’t nearly as low fat. I will have to check. But overall it tastes pretty good. There is a subtle sub-taste that I could do without.
The carrot and broccoli medley is pretty common in the Healthy Choice entrees. They are okay. I spinkled a little bit of Molly McButter on the vegetables and that tasted pretty good.
Out of the 210 calories in the entree, 40 are from fat. That works out to 19% of the calories coming from fat. That’s not bad. It’s much better than the 27% for the Cheesy Chicken & Rice entree. I will likely have this again.
We bought a whole bunch of the Healthy Choice entrees recently when they were on sale at the local grocery store $1.25 each. Thats a great price. So we loaded up our freezer with them. I wish we had gotten more actually. In general, the Healthy Choice microwave foods, are low fat, healthy, and taste better than their competitors. But since we have a whole bunch of them, I am getting to try a bunch of them, including many that I hadn’t previously tried.
For lunch today, I had the Cheesy Chicken & Rice-(white meat chicken with rice in a cheese sauce). The vegetable was carrot & broccoli medley. This entree has 6 grams of fat, 220 calories. Though I don’t generally pay much attention to it, it has 600mg of sodium. Weight Wathcers counts this as 4 points.
It needed to be cooked for about 3 minutes in the microwave, with one interuption where it needs to be stirred. Then it need to sit for a couple minutes, and stirred.
Okay, this is not the best Healthy Choice entree that I have had. The chicken and rice in cheese sauce was very watery. The cheese tasted okay. There are maybe about half a dozen small chunks of chicken. It’s not very filling. The vegetables are pretty standard fare for Healthy Choice. They are okay.
With 60 calories coming from fat, compared to the 220 total calories, over 27% of the calories are coming from fat. I would prefer something that had 20% or less of the calories coming from fat. If the entree tasted better, I might make an occasional exception. But I thing I will pass on the Healthy Choice Cheesy Chicken & Rice in the future.
My wife made these low fat chicken enchiladas for dinner tonight. They were so good! I can’t believe that they were so low fat! Yum!
Low fat chicken enchiladas
1 1/2 cups cooked and shredded chicken breast
3/4 cups finely shredded reduced-fat Monterey Jack cheese
1/2 cup snipped fresh chives
1/4 tsp. minced garlic
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/4 tsp. ground cumin
1/8 tsp. ground black pepper
1 1/2 (10 ounce) cans El Paso enchilada sauce
4 corn tortillas (Tia Rosa yellow corn tortillas have least amount preservatives.)
1/4 cup (1 ounce) finely shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
1/2 (2-ounce) can, sliced, pitted ripe olives, drained
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, mix the chicken, 1/3 cup of the Monterey Jack cheese, 1/4 cup of the chives, the garlic, cumin and pepper. Set the chicken mixture aside.
Spread 1/4 cup of the enchilada sauce in a 13" x 9" x 2" baking pan. Transfer the remaining sauce to a large skillet. Heat the sauce until warm. To soften the tortillas, place them on top of the sauce. Shake off the excess sauce and transfer the tortilla to a plate. Spoon about 1/8 cup of the chicken filling down the center and roll up to enclose. Place, seam side down, in the prepared baking pan. Repeat softening and filling the remaining tortillas.
Pour the remaining sauce over the filled tortillas. Top with the remaining Monterey Jack cheese, the cheddar cheese, the remaining 1/4 cup of chives and the olives. Cover with foil and bake about 30 min. or until bubbly. Makes 4 enchiladas; 2 servings.
These are one of my favorite easy to fix, but healthy foods! We have Jenn-Air grill installed in our kitchen so we are able to grill year round. I’ll buy fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts at the grocery store. Then maybe for lunch or dinner, I’ll pull out one of the breasts and place it on the grill on high. After the one side is cooked pretty well, I’ll flip it over, and start grilling the other side.
As this is cooking, I’ll put out the bread. I’ll spread a thin coat of mayonaise. When I wanted REALLY low fat, I used fat-free Miracle Whip. But it doesn’t taste as good. I’ll have to try Hellman’s reduced fat mayonaise, and see how it tastes on a chicken sandwich. Then I’ll place a leaf of lettuce on the mayo. Either Iceberg lettuce, or Romaine lettuce will work. Then next comes a slice of tomato. I like beefsteak, because they are big, and a slice will cover most of the sandwich.
Now as the other side of the chicken seems to be done grilling, I’ll put the chicken off the grill, and slice down the middle into two thinner slabs of chicken. If the middle isn’t fully cooked, I’ll place then back onto the grill.
When these are fully cooked, I’ll slice each of these into two thinner slabs. I will use two of these thin chicken slabs for each sandwich. So one chicken breast will yield two sandwiches.
There is nothing like a warm freshly made grilled chicken sandwich! Yummy!