Sometimes I am really in the mood for fish! So with the Healthy Choice meals on sale, I picked up some of the Lemon Pepper Fish in addition to the salmon.
So today I tried the Healthy Choice Lemon Pepper Fish. It comes with rice pilaf, broccoli, and apple cherry dessert. It has 280 calories, with the 5 grams of fat, or 45 calories of fat, counting for 16% of the total calories. I think the meal I got was in an older box as there were no Weight Watchers Points listed on it. I am guess 4 or 5 points. It took 5 minutes of microwave time. As I had it in the microwave, I began smelling this smell. Oh no, it smelled like cooking spinach! I hate spinach! I looked at the boks, and sure enough, there was spinach mixed in with the rice pilaf. Yuck! The taste permiated the fish too. I covered the fish with some ketchup. Then it was okay. I also put ketchup on the rice pilaf, and it covered up the spinach taste. The broccoli was the same bland stuff from the other Healthy Choice meals. A bit of Molly McButter and they were okay. The apple cherry dessert was my least favorite of all the Healthy Choice dessert. It was just this thick sort of sweet apple/cherry soup.
I just didn’t get into this meal. I think I will leave the rest of the Lemon Pepper Fish meals in the freezer for my wife.
I love garlic bread. It goes perfect with things like pasta, or fancier meals like prime rib. When I used to make it, I would spread on softened butter or margerine. Or if the butter wasn’t softened enough, I would melt it in the microwave, and then brush it on.
But these days I am trying cut my fat intake, so I have been doing something different.
Ingredients:
1/2 loaf Italian bread
Olivio buttery spray
Johnny’s Great Caesar Garlic Seasoning
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Slice the italian bread into two thinner slabs. Spray the inside part of the bread with the Olivio buttery spray (about 5-8 sprays each piece of bread). Sprinkle the buttered bread with the Johnny’s. Place the two pieces of bread back together as they were before being sliced. Wrap with foil. Bake in oven for 10 minutes.
The oven temerp can be a little higher or lower if something else if alread cooking in there. Just adjust the time a little.
I grabbed several Healthy Choice meals out of the freezer as I left for work this morning. I grabbed two complete meals, and one of the small Simple Selections. I debated about what to eat for breakfast, and decided to try the Grilled White Meat Chicken & Pasta.
The Healthy Choice Grilled White Meat Chicken & Pasta (with fire roasted tomato sauce) comes only with mixed vegetables (carrots and brocolli). I has 210 calories with 45, or about 21% coming from the 5 grams of fat. It counts for 4 Weight Watchers Points. I microwaved it for 3 minutes which included a stirring at the 2 1/2 minute mark. I probably should have left it in there for another 15-30 seconds as a couple pieces of the chicken were still cold.
The taste was okay, but considering 21% fat calories, I would have hoped for better. I will probably pass of on buying this Healthy Choice meal in the future. The vegetables were the standard bland Healthy Choice vegetables which I dressed up with Molly McButter.