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.
With all of the Healthy Choice dinners that I have eaten, I am not sure how I haven’t tried the Classic Grilled Chicken BBQ yet. I love bar-b-que! In fact I don’t even remember buying it, but it was in teh freezer, so I must have bought it. So this morning as I am pulling stuff out of the freezer o bring to work, I stumbled over the Chicken BBQ, and couldn’t wait to try it.
I had the Healthy Choice Classic Grilled Chicken BBQ (white meat chicken with BBQ sauce) for breakfast. It included roasted potatoes, broccoli florets, and peach dessert. The meal has 270 calories, with only 3 grams of fat. The 30 calories from the 3 grams of fat count for only about 11% of the total calories! THAT IS PRETTY LOW!!! I gotta get more of these! This counts as 5 Weight Watchers Points.
The chicken in the BBQ sauce was very good. The BBQ sauce tastes familiar, but I can’t place it. It is a very smoky mesquite flavored sauce. The potatoes which were off to the side when cooking, got a little dried out, but they were okay when I smeared them with BBQ sauce too. The broccoli was bland as ever, but I used Molly McButter on them. I screwed up when cooking the meal, and didn’t remove the film cover from the dessert. So the peach dessert seemed to have splattered on the plastic some. It still tasted good.
Next time Health Choice meals come on sale, I am going to pick of a bunch of these. Great taste, and 11% of the calories coming from fat! What a deal!
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 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.