"Christopher Helms" > wrote

> On Feb 23, 5:25 pm, "<RJ>" > wrote:

>> Occasionally, our local supermarket sells
>> BANQUET Frozen TV dinners for 88 cents each.

Right off the bat you know there isn't much chicken in there.
Breading, all breading and bones.

>> 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 were to go that route, I think there are many better
choices in the freezer/soup aisle that could accomplish the
same thing, however, not at 88 cents.

For instance, this week Stouffers is 50% off where I shop.
You can have a nice stuffed pepper for 230 calories, or a
lasagna with meat sauce for 350 calories. That would be
about $1.50 at the sale price.

Those are the two things I have in my freezer for me
to look at. If I recall correctly, a whole can of Chunky Soup
generally ran about 350 calories.

>> If you look at only calories, and could stand the monotony,
>> this should be a workable weight-loss diet

> 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.

Perhaps if you would get the Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine type
stuff, it wouldn't be such a brutally bad diet for you, sodium, etc wise.
You being, whoever you is who would attempt that diet.

nancy