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Healthy Choice Chicken Margherita

(White Meat Chicken With Angel Hair Pasta & Roasted Garlic In Balsamic Vinaigrette Sauce)

Directions: Cook for 3:30 to 4 minutes; let stand for 2 minutes in microwave, dump food into sauce bowl below. Bowls get hot hot hot!

Another Cafe Steamers platter! In this one I have three chicken strips, each about 3 1/2 inches long. During the cook cycle, the vinegar scent was very strong, to the point that I worried about if I was going to be able to eat it. But once I let it sit for 2 minutes, the scent seemed to fade. Or else I got used to it. The pasta was pretty good, I like how the Cafe Steamer technology keeps it from getting mushy.

There are real cloves of roasted garlic mixed up in there too, so beware if you’re at work. I’ll have to brush my teeth before I head back today.

Darn if it wasn’t tasty and filling! I supplemented with a serving of peas anyway to keep me healthfully stuffed. But when I think of “margherita” I think more basil and mozzarella cheese than a brown vinaigrette, so I’m slightly disappointed that way.

330 cal, 8g fat, 7POINTS

June 3rd, 2008

Lean Cuisine Butternut Squash Ravioli

(in a creamy sauce with walnuts, snap peas & carrots)

Directions: Cook 3 minutes, stir, cook 1:30-2:30 more

For one of these babies is a bit more than I’d like. But it has twice the veggies, so I gave it a shot. It is one heavy tray coming out of the microwave!

I can taste the butternut squash filling in the five raviolis, which is good. I can even find the walnuts, and they still taste nutty..still good. The sauce is light and didn’t end up clumpy after microwaving…even better! The snap peas held up very well through the microwave process too - they’re still crunch…awesome!

Don’t let the description lull you into complacency. This puppy also features red pepper chunks. But don’t they all?

Usually after a frozen diet lunch, I’ll quickly make myself a pouch of steamfresh veggies to finish filling me up. But after this meal and my lunchtime glass of Arizona Diet Iced tea, I’m full enough that no more food is necessary. And this is a good thing.

This meal stays on my shopping list.

350 calories, 9g of fat, 7 POINTS

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