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jmcquown

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> On Feb 23, 6:25 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>
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> What about sodium content and the many strange sounding ingredients?
> Are there any nutrients?

We never got to eat TV dinners when we were kids. So Mom bought some
Banquet TV dinners last year or maybe the year before for her and Dad. I
think it was the fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and peas. She
reported back, OMG! This stuff is awful! Yes, that would about sum it up.

Jill