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(roasted turkey tenderloins with mushroom gravy, green beans AND RED PEPPERS!)
(strips, not chunks, but still)
Directions: Cook 4-5:30, let stand in microwave for 2 minutes.
When I eat at work, like today, I let the meal sit at my table for 2 minutes. If I leave it in the microwave then I’m just hogging from someone else who needs it.
I’m going out to eat tonight and will likely completely blow my day’s plan, so I thought I’d scrimp as much as I could during lunch. I ran to Wegmans to get my Diet Green tea, and picked up .36 lb of their mozzarella/tomato salad. I’m a sucker for that salad. I ate 2 pieces of cheese while my meal was cooking. Anyway, from past experiences, turkey dishes are decent and low-cal.
And this was just that.
Today’s little black tray from the “Comfort Classics” collection brought me 9 turkey chunks which were a bit larger than my thumb. They were tender but a bit flavorless unless you dipped them in the gravy first. Speaking of the gravy, it tasted like regular turkey gravy but had a few sliced mushrooms added for panache.
The green beans were very watery. I left behind the red pepper strips as I’m not a fan.
That meal, 2 mozzarella cheese balls and the Diet tea (sadly, not in a beer glass today) filled me up wonderfully. And then I blew it and finished off the mozzarella/tomato salad (about 30 calories per ball of cheese…6 balls…yipe). So I figured what the hell and ate the 10 calorie jello.
5g fat, 150cal, 3 POINTS
May 15th, 2008
(barbecue sauce & beef rib tips with oven-roasted potatoes)
(oh, the potatoes feature corn, onion, and RED PEPPER CHUNKS!)
Directions: Cook on HIGH for 4-5 minutes. Let sit in microwave for 1-2 minutes.
There is a group of ladies at work who order out for lunch every single day. They eat at their desks then take their hour lunch to do other things. Sweet deal, huh? Anyway, today someone ordered a barbecue sandwich, and my tummy started grumbling. Luckily I knew I had this dish - part of the “Comfort Classics” collection - at home, so after a nice 4.5 minute wait in front of the microwave, I have my own BBQ lunch!
There are seven chunks of moist and delicious beef in this dish, each about the size of my thumb. The potatoes held up well through the nuking process, but the corn/onion/pepper mixture fell away from the potatoes to the bottom of the tray, where they soaked up the BBQ sauce. I think this tray should have had 2 compartments to it to combat that unholy commingling.
The sauce…is okay. It tastes like your typical Kraft BBQ sauce without any of the fluff. And while it’s a far cry from that BBQ place I went to in Memphis a lifetime ago (Rendezvous?) or even my favorite chain BBQ place, it’s passable for a quick lunch. On second thought, there’s almost too much sauce, even after liberally dipping the seven chunks.
This meal along with the accompanying diet iced green tea beverage in a beer pint glass filled me up! So the hearty garden salad I made up will come to work with me this afternoon as a snack.
More importantly, it knocked out the mild craving I had for BBQ.
5g fat, 250 cal, 5 POINTS
May 13th, 2008
(baked chicken tenderloins with cornbread, stuffing & whipped potatoes)
Directions: Cook on High for 4-5 minutes, let stand for 1-2 minutes
What the HELL is the orange powder on my mashed potatoes? (reads box) Oh. Paprika. I just didn’t expect it on my mashed potatoes.
Oh, sad little chicken chunks - you don’t resemble the long, lean tenderloins on the box at all. You taste pretty plain too. This entree is part of the “comfort classics” collection, so I guess if your family cooked plainly (like mine did) this would be comforting on a dreary 48 degree rainy day like today. Yet, I find no comfort.
The most notable characteristic of the mashed potatoes is the overwhelming saltiness. They also cooled down before the rest of the meal did.
Thankfully, the cornbread stuffing tastes just like Stovetop brand cornbread stuffing so it wasn’t all for naught. It’s like Thanksgiving in my mouth! (see reference about my plain-eating family, above)
This meal left me wanting more, even at its 240 calorie hit against my day’s total. So I’ll console myself with a serving of sweet corn and some more diet iced green tea.
4.5g fat, 240 cal, 5 POINTS
May 12th, 2008
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