Posts filed under 'Lean Cuisine'
(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
(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
May 8th, 2008
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