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Christopher Helms Christopher Helms is offline
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Default A "BANQUET" DIET ?

On Feb 23, 5:25 pm, "<RJ>" > wrote:
> Occasionally, our local supermarket sells
> BANQUET Frozen TV dinners for 88 cents each.
>
> Looking at the label, a typical dinner contains 300 > 350 calories.
>
> It occurs to me that one could eat
> one TV dinner for breakfast, another for lunch,
> and two TV dinners for supper
> and still stay within 1200 > 1500 calories a day.
>
> If you look at only calories, and could stand the monotony,
> this should be a workable weight-loss diet
>
> ????
>
> <rj>


No reason why it wouldn't work, if you can stick with it. The only
problems are the monotony and the fact that there isn't much to eat in
those 88 cent buggers. A few bites and you're done eating until your
next meal, which isn't going to be very big, either.