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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Lean Cuisine- Cheddar Potatoes with Broccoli Review

This morning was my Wednesday weigh in down 4.2 lbs!!! my biggest lose yet, however I did have some kind of flu thing Saturday and didn't feel much like eating for a day and was tummy sick...after it was over I weighed myself (I know naughty!) and I was down an extra 3 lbs. more then this weigh in. but no doubt that was a water weight loss. After not eating for a day (and not feeling like eating) I was tempted to splurge and eat whatever I wanted the next day...I mean I had all these extra calories to use! but I didn't. This weeks diet meal review of the week is Lean Cuisine's "Cheddar Potatoes with Broccoli". These are $1.98 at my store as they have no meat and I guess are cheaper to make. 210 calories and 4grams fat is really good, keep in mind however that 1 cup of broccoli florets has 30 calories as well as 1 small potato has about 100...this didn't contain that much broccoli, so most of this meals calories came from the cheese sauce. The sauce was really good,it need salt and pepper to make it to my taste but still good, what I couldn't figure out was why there was so little broccoli as it's so low cal I'm guessing because broccoli florets are a higher priced food item? Since there was plenty of cheese sauce I steamed another cup of frozen florets and added them to my meal still plenty of sauce to cover them and only brought up the total calories up to 240.
before
after I added my own broccoli If I really wanted to do some work I could add a grilled chicken breast to this.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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