My Favorite Lean Cuisines For Lunch
I have to admit, I am one of the most averse to the “teeny tiny” prepackaged meals that are avaiable in your grocer’s frozen section that I know. Every time I had ever tried one of these frozen meals that are usually 300 calories or under, I thought, ok, now bring on the rest of the meal, because that wasn’t an entree, that was an appetizer! But, now that I’ve seriously cut calories, and my live in boyfriend is on board too, we’ve started to really stock up on these easy lunches because they’re tasty, they’re easy and fast, and they’re cost effective.
Plus, you’re not eating out and probably wasting over 700 calories on your lunch alone, and you can also supplement them with your own veggies for minimum calorie impact and added fiber. So yes, this one time skeptic has started to really enjoy these prepackaged mini meals! Let me give you an overview of the Lean Cuisine and Smart Ones meals that I like best.
The first one that is my absolute favorite, because I love Mexican food, but know it’s really bad for me with all that sour cream and other sauces like guacamole and enchilada sauce. It’s the Lean Cuisine chicken enchiladas en sauza. It’s tiny of course, and it comes wrapped in a small corn enchilada warp, but it’s smothered in this really good white-ish sauce that has a tinge of green to it. It also comes with rice and beans, and a little bit of corn mixed in. It’s the perfect substitute for really being bad and going all out at a mexican restaurant if you’re watching your calories.
Also, it only runs 270 calories, so I add fat free sour cream and also a bunch of salsa, which has no fat and hardly any calories, so I’m not starving afterwards. Second on my list is the Lasagna Florentine by Smart Ones. Delicious! It’s got veggies in it, and I add about two tablespoons of my own parmesan cheese to round out the calorie count a bit and add some more protein.
Also on my list is the swedish meatballs, and I also love the Cheese Canelloni. I find that you can really dress these meals up in low fat, low cal ways, and if you just steam some veggies and put butter spray on them, you’ve got yourself a filling, low calorie meal that makes you feel like you’re “being bad” when you really aren’t!
