For the most part I like Healthy Choice meals better than I do the Lean Cuisine meals. I will buy loads of them when they are on sale.
I love the Lean Cuisine Honey Balsamic Chicken. The Balsamic sauce has a nice bite to it.
Recently the Healthy Choice meals went on sale, and I bought a bunch of the Honey Balsamic Chicken meals. I have been very disappointed in them. The apple-cranberry crisp is decent. The broccoli is fair. But the Honey Balsamic Chicken itself is not too good. It’s not bad, but just isn’t good either. I like that they have one big chunk of chicken. But the sauce is just to watery and tasteless. With the Lean Cuisine, it is thick, dark, and sweet. I have had a couple of these from Healthy Choice now, and they were both like this. I doubt I will but more of this particullar Healthy Choice. There are many other flavors to choose from that are better.
So if you have a choice, and want to try the Honey Balsamic Chicken, go for the Lean Cuisine!
I stopped at the library today, and as I always do, I scanned the cookbook section of their used book sale. They get some turnover, but I often see the same books. But once in a while a low-fat cookbook shows up. Often they are older, not very interesting ones. Today I scored big, and they had three interesting looking low-fat cookbooks.
The first one was titled Busy People’s Low Fat Cookbook. This one looks pretty cool. It has recipes that are fast, and use a limited number of ingredients. They even flag the recipes as to whether budget friendly or not.
The next cookbook was titled Skinny Pasta. I love good pasta, so I was excited to find a low-fat pasta cookbook!
The third cookbook was Low-Fat Cooking On The Grill. This one has some delicious looking pictures. I hope they taste half as good as they look.
I just got back from vacation. Actually I had two vacations close together. The first vacation was a week long driving trip around New England. We ate in nice restaurants almost every night, eating things like clam chowder, and lobster. Yummy! But part of this was also so I could write about the various restaurants for my travel blog.
Then about two weeks after that we headed off to Seattle for about 2 1/2 weeks to visit family. Some meals were at restaurants eating local fare such as fish & chips, clam chowder, and also at fast food restaurants that we don’t have at home like Jack In The Box. But then other meals were with family, eating whatever they made. So basically, the low-fat diet went out the window for a while. I weighed myself last night and weight 178. I forgot to weight myself this morning, but I am guessing the scale would have said about 176. I gained about 8-10 pounds.
But I am home again. So I am back to eating low fat again. I ate a healthy choice meal for breakfast, and will eat another one for lunch. Also, I will be able to get back to my regular workouts. Hopefully the weight will come off and fast as it went on.
I started my weight-loss project months ago. My goal was to lower my body fat. I did it by simply eating low-fat healthy foods and exercising. My weight at the start was in the mid 180s, and this morning I weighted in at 167 pounds! I just got back from vacation on which I probably could have eaten a lot healthier, but I didn’t lose to much ground. I am still working on getting the six-pack abs.
My BEFORE pic is dated January 7, 2007.
My AFTER pics are May 31st, 2007 (10 minutes ago):
I weighed myself this morning and was shocked to see I was down to 163.8 lbs! A little later as I was getting dressed for work, I buckled my belt, and something felt different. I looked down and saw I was in the 4th hole instead of the 3rd hole. I am getting skinnier!
And the thing is, I am not really even trying that hard. I swear that eating low fat healthy foods is best diet for losing weight.
I hesitate to even call it a diet as it is really just eating healthy. I don’t do anything like counting calories, or weighing stuff, or marking off points. I eat a lot of Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine meals, because they are low fat, healthy, and they are relatively cheap when they are on sale! I just bought a bunch of Lean Cuisines on sale for $1.88 each, and I have gotten them for as cheap as $1.50, or even a $1.25.
I just eat mostly like normal, but I use butter substitutes, and I avoid stuff with lots of fat. I really don’t eat that much less. It gets to be almost fun trying to see how low of fat that you can make certain recipes, or finding the lowest fast foods in stores.
I am not even really trying to lose weight at this point, but maintain my weight while burning fat. And the fat is disappearing!
Of course exercise is a vital part of the equation! I eat low fat healthy foods (most of the time), and I exercise, and the weight just falls offs!
So if you are looking for the best diet for losing weight, limit yourself to food where the perecentage of calories from fat is 20% or less of the total calories. But then, don’t eat a pound of sugary junk and say it is fat free! Just eat healthy low fat food, and exercise!