On Feb 23, 4:18 pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> "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

Glad to see the only two brand I use once in a while stated here.
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