I am trying to sample all of the various Lean Cuisine frozen meals. I have a bunch of the Spa Cuisine Classics.
For today’s late lunch I had the Lean Cuisine Pork Stir Fry (roasted pork, edamame & water chestnuts in an asian style garlic sauce over whole wheat pasta). The total calories are 280 with 45 calories coming from the 5 grams of fat. That works out to 16%. Not bad. It counts as 5 Weight Watchers Points. I microwaved it for about 4 minutes 30 seconds. I didn’t even need to cut the film (I am so used to doing that automatically). The pork was okay. The pasta and vegetables were pretty good. I am not a huge fan of stir-fry, so it didn’t come as a surprise that this didn’t bowl me over. I may try it again though. The fat percentage wasn’t bad.
I am still digging through my freezer trying all the different flavors of Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice frozen meals. I have a few Lean Cuisines that I have tried that I just haven’t had time to write about yet.
This morning for breakfast I ate the Lean Cuisine Sweet & Sour Chicken (chicken tenderloins in a tangy sweet and sour sauce with long grain white rice). It has 300 calories and only 3 grams of fat. The 25 calories from the fat make up about 8% of the total calories. That is pretty low fat! It counts as 6 Weight Watchers Points.
The sweet and sour sauce was a little too sweet for my tastes. And it overwhelmed the taste of anything else. The rices was…well…rice. It was bland. I mixed it with the remaining sweet and sour sauce and that helped. But there wasn’t a lot of sauce left to flavor all the rice. Overall it the Lean Cuisine Sweet & Sour Chicken was okay. I love how low fat it was. But other than that I wasn’t big on it.
When I bought all the sale priced Lean Cuisine meals, I was excited to try the meat loaf and mashed potatoes! I love meat loaf! I love mashed potatoes. But looking at the 7 grams of fat, I was hesitant to get too many. I grabbed a few of them though.
I brought several Lean Cuisine meals with me to work, and I tried the Meatloaf With Gravy & Whipped Potatoes for lunch. It has 250 total calories, with 7 grams of fat which make up 24% of the total calories. That’s king of high. Weight Watchers counts this as 5 Points. It took 6 minutes of microwave time, with no steps during cooking. How was it? I was kind of dissapointed. The meatloaf was kind of bland, and was the mash potatoes. I had eaten most of the mashed potatoes when it struck me that I could have sprinkled some Molly McButter on them. Oh well. If it had tasted really good, I might have put up with the 24% fat calorie percentage. But I doubt I will buy more of this one.
Last Friday I went back to the grocery store, and loaded up on Lean Cuisine meals while they were still on sale. I skipped the ones that were regularly prices at $2.29, and went for the ones that were regularly $3.19. There weren’t too many of those left, but grabbed all of the ones I was interested in. Then I went after the ones that were regularly prices at $2.99. There was a great selection of these. I tried to grab at least one or two of each. Even then I didn’t manage to get all of them. I skipped some of the ones that had a higher amount of fat in them, and went for the ones with the lowest amount of fat. I need to take a calculator so I calculate out the percentage of fat calories.
Anyway, this morning for breakfast I ate the Lean Cuisine Chicken Cabonara (roasted chicken tenderloins with bacon & mushrooms over linguine). It was regularly priced ay $2.99. So a $1.66 was a great price. I hesitated on this one because of the 7 grams of fat. But I love spaghetti carbonara! The total calories were 270, with 7 grams of fat or 60 fat calories making up about 22% of the total calories. It took 5 minutes of microwave time. Just had to stir it when it was done cooking. It smelled great when cooking. Then it tasted great. It doesn’t have the texture of actual spaghetti carbonara, and the taste is a little different. But it is a very good. I will probably eat more of these every once in a while. But due to the higher fat calorie percentage, I will probably limit how often. But it was really good!
Along with all the Lean Cuisine meals I got on sale, I grabbed some of the Cafe Classics Bowl’s. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but decided to try them.
For lunch today I had the Lean Cuisine Teriyaki Steak (beef steak with ginger-garlic flavored pasta, vegetables & teriyaki sauce). It has a total of 280 calories with 6 grams of fat. The fat counts for 50 calories, or almost 18% of the total calories. It counts for 6 Weight Watchers Points. It took 5 minutes of microwave time, and I had to stir it once in the middle.
I love good teriyaki. I used to eat teriyaki often when I lived back in the Seattle. There are little teriyaki restaurants all over the place. Yummy! Unfortunatly I have not found good teriyaki places back in Rochester, NY where I live now. Also unfortunatly, the Lean Cuisine Teriyaki Steak isn’t very good teriyaki either. The meal tasted okay, but if I got this at one of the restaurants back in Seattle, I wouldn’t be going back. Now if I don’t compare it to good teriyaki food, then I would have to say it is okay. Not great but okay. It tastes sort of like stir-fry. I am not a big fan of stir-fry, but I might eat this once in a while. I am sure there are others that I would much rather eat.