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(lightly breaded chicken breast with rib meat in lemon glaze with brown rice risotto)
(the brown rice risotto has…RED PEPPER CHUNKS!)
Directions: Cook on HIGH for 4:30 - 5:30. Let stand in microwave for 1-2 minutes.
Can you tell Lean Cuisine has been on sale?
This dish is part of the Spa Cuisine collection, and at 300 calories, its quite a lunch. It was the highest calorie lunch I had in the freezer, and since I’m going out to eat tomorrow night, I figured I’d save the lower cal meal for tomorrow. If it doesn’t fill me, I’ll nosh on 25 calories worth of grape tomatoes.
There are two VERY LIGHTLY breaded chicken cutlets in this meal. Each one is a little more than 1/2 cm thin and the size of the palm of my hand. I suppose if you smashed them together, you’d have one serving of chicken. There is a faint sweet lemony taste to the sauce, which was goopy and sweet enough that I may have been tempted to lick it out of the corners of the tray.
I cooked this meal for 4:30 and it’s HOT even after standing in the microwave. Thank goodness for the diet-iced-tea-in-beer glass. The rice (which the box brags is 100% whole grain) is more of a beige than brown but it - and the broccoli - still has a good bite. The red pepper chunks, as always, bring color but no flavor. Some of the broccoli was more yellow/brown than green.
After the entire meal (and I did lick every grain of rice and every ounce of sauce out of the tray when you weren’t looking) and the entire glass of iced tea, I’m at the point where I’m not hungry, but I’m not completely full. I guess the word is “satisfied.”
I’ll bring the tomatoes back to work with me for an afternoon snack.
Not sure if I’d get this again, as it didn’t WOW me enough to justify a 300 calorie expenditure.
9g fat 300 cal, 5 POINTS
May 14th, 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
(grilled white meat chicken with broccoil & garlic flavored radiatore past in a parmesan-caesar sauce)
(and an unbilled appearance by red pepper chunks)
Directions: Cook 3 minutes, stir, cook 1:00-1:30 more
Firstly, pasta or noodles that have been cooked, frozen, then microwaved RARELY please me. I like my pasta a bit more al dente. But these aren’t bad…the ridges on the radiatore are large enough to hold the creamy sauce. I counted about a dozen chunks of chicken. The broccoli was mushy.
The sauce had a pretty distinct garlic flavor to it, but it passed my breathe-in-the-hand-and-sniff breath test, so you should be fine eating this at work.
This meal didn’t fill me on its own, but along with 16 oz of Diet Green Tea (Yes, it’s in a beer glass. It’s Friday.) and a serving of veggies it made for a very nice lunch.
7g fat, 240 cal, 5 POINTS
May 9th, 2008
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