Posts filed under 'Healthy Choice'
(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
(Tempura Battered Chicken Breast With Rice & Vegetables In Spicy Brown Sauce)
Directions: Microwave for 3:30 to 4:00. Let stand for 2 minutes, then dump the foodstuffs into the sauce below it. This will be hot hot hot!
I’m still have 3 more dishes in my Cafe Steamers supply, so here we go…
Ni hao! Five pieces of chicken await me. The sauce is spicy and the chicken chunks are a bit too chewy, but all-around it doesn’t taste bad at all. It is VERY spicy, though. The vegetables are peas, carrots and red pepper chunks. There’s also red pepper in the sauce.
Holding true to the Chinese food stereotype, I’m still ravenously hungry after putting away this 430 calories. I steamed up some broccoli to eat on the side.
I won’t do this again. Nothing against the taste of the dish itself, but if I’m going to take a 430 calorie (9 points!!) hit to my day, I’m going to eat real food.
430 cal, 9g fat, 9 POINTS
June 2nd, 2008
(Dried White Chicken, Three Cheeses, Diced Tomatoes, Spinach and Roasted Onions With Creamy Basil Sauce, On Italian Bread)
Cook time is approximately 2 minutes and 45 seconds, although I had to have my work microwave cook it for 3 minutes and 30 seconds to heat it up fully. Also, to get it cripsy, you have to fold the box into a raised platform and cook the panini on the foil-esque tray it came wrapped upon. Let it cool after microwaving for a minute, then fold the 2 halves together to make a sandwich. Watch out…it’s hot.
I hadn’t had a good panini since I moved away from my local Genuardi’s. I used to get their Chicken Panini. So today when I didn’t have time to go home for lunch, I went to Wegmans and grabbed this frozen meal, a side of presliced apples and a bottle of “Honest Tea” Green Tea. (I’ll be honest, first choice was Taco Bell. Then Quiznos. Then Subway. Then I finally sucked it up and got the healthy lunch.)
And it was great. While I wouldn’t say that it grills in the microwave (it was pre-grilled and you’re just heating it up) the bread was crispy and the contents stayed in the sandwich while I ate it. I was skeptical at first, because it seems so much teenier than a sandwich that I would regularly make for myself. (Portion control, my downfall.) But wouldn’t you know that with my apples and tea, I’m properly filled up!
5g fat, 310 cal, 6 POINTS
May 29th, 2008
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