With all the Lean Cuisine frozen meals on sale for a $1.66 each (or $1.50 with $5 coupon off when you spent $50), I head over the supermarket to load up. It didn’t matter what size the Lean Cuisine was, they were all the same price. So I looked for the larger ones, the full blown meals with veggies and desserts first. They didn’t have than many left. And by the size of the space, I am guessing they only carry a few different kinds of the Lean Cuisine Dinnertime Selects. I grab a bunch of the Chicken Portabello which is mostly what they had left of the Dinnertime Selects.
So today for lunch I had one of the Lean Cuisine Chicken Portabello meals (chicken tenderloins in a portabello mushroom sauce). For the vegetable/starch they had rice & vegetable medley (broccoli, carrots, spinach, red peppers). And for dessert they had a chocolate cherry dessert. The meal had 380 calories with 7 grams of fat (or 60 calories worth of fat making up almost 16% of the total calories). It took about 7 minutes of microwave time.
I like mushrooms, but this mushroom sauce was just okay. I have had better. The chicken was okay. I was a bit concerned about the spinach in the rice as I hate spinach. I thought I might need to drown it is ketchup, but I barely tasted the spinach. So the rice was okay. I like cherries, and I like chocolate. But this chocolate cherry dessert was kind of gross. I ate it, but I really didn’t care for it much. I will porbably shove these into the back of the freezer unless my wife likes them.
The local grocery store put all the Lean Cuisine meals on sale this week. With a $5 off coupon, I managed to get them for $1.50 each. So I bought 30 of them. I had some space in the freezer now that I have been much away at the Healthy Choice meals I bought a couples weeks ago.
So this morning as I was leaving for work, and grabbed some frozen entrees out of the freezer and headed out the door. I put them into the freezer at work.
When I went to grab one out for breakfast, I saw I grabbed two of the Lean Cuisine Lasagna With Meat Sauce meals. I thought I grabbed a Lasagna and a Spaghetti, but I guess not.
So for breakfast I had the Lean Cuisine Lasagna With Meat Sauce. It didn’t come with any extra vegetables, or desert liek the Healthy Choice meals I have been eating. The lasagna has 320 calories, and 7 grams of fat. The fat counts for 60 calories, or almost 19% of the total calories. This counts as 6 Weight Watchers Points. The sodium is a little higher than the Healthy Choice meals at 690mg. I took about 6 minutes of microwave time and I had to remove the plastic part way through. The instructions say let it sit for 5 minutes. Do it! The cheese gets really hot! I ate the lasagna, and it was really good. Lots of cheese (ricotta, reduced fat mozzarella, romano, & parmesan cheeses), I will likely have this again. I wish the fat percentage was a little lower.