Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!

I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting. I'd carefully read the label on another flavor of this new low
carb line and it looked okay, so I grabbed this one since it was a buy one,
get one free sale. When I got home I discovered the Chicken one was full of
trans fat, tapioca starch and sugar.

The "chicken" nuggets tasted squashy and artificial. The sauce was thin and
nasty.

There's a snarky paragraph on the back from Weight Watchers about how all
nutrients are important and you shouldn't get into "fads" which sounds like
a semi-anti-low carb statement. I found that odd on a product that was
obviously being marketed as low carb.

I do wish someone would put out an inexpensive low carb line that wasn't all
full of artificial crap because sometimes it's fun to have a little fancy
feed when I'm home alone and don't feel like cooking. But this isn't it.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
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Hello,
On 17-Feb-2004, "Jenny" wrote:

I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting. I'd carefully read the label on another flavor of this
new low carb line and it looked okay, so I grabbed this one since it
was a
buy one, get one free sale. When I got home I discovered the Chicken
one was
full of trans fat, tapioca starch and sugar.

The "chicken" nuggets tasted squashy and artificial. The sauce was
thin and nasty.
Snip

Thank you for the review. I think I'll give this a miss. :-)

Take care,
Carmen

"Jenny" wrote in message
...
I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting. I'd carefully read the label on another flavor of this new low
carb line and it looked okay, so I grabbed this one since it was a buy
one,
get one free sale. When I got home I discovered the Chicken one was full
of
trans fat, tapioca starch and sugar.

The "chicken" nuggets tasted squashy and artificial. The sauce was thin
and
nasty.

There's a snarky paragraph on the back from Weight Watchers about how all
nutrients are important and you shouldn't get into "fads" which sounds
like
a semi-anti-low carb statement. I found that odd on a product that was
obviously being marketed as low carb.


Funny how they now say Low-Carb is a fad. I mean that is what they said in
the 70's. I think after 30 years, it no longer is a fad.

Patty

I do wish someone would put out an inexpensive low carb line that wasn't
all
full of artificial crap because sometimes it's fun to have a little fancy
feed when I'm home alone and don't feel like cooking. But this isn't it.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm









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"Jenny" wrote in message ...
I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting.

Thanks for the warning. I guess my husband will keep getting tuna,
green salad and cottage cheese for lunch.


Dawn

Dawn wrote:

"Jenny" wrote in message ...
I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting.

Thanks for the warning. I guess my husband will keep getting tuna,
green salad and cottage cheese for lunch.

Dawn

Is that Healthy Choice or Smart Ones? Smart Ones has something
like that I think.
--
Jean B.

I tried the other Healthy Choice dinner today, "Creamy Chicken Tuscan" and
though it didn't have the transfat in the ingredients, it tasted even
nastier.

The "chicken" was some kind of chicken jello block, which had a pillowy
texture. The sauce had a chemical taste and made the whole kitchen smell
bad.

I'd never eaten the Healthy Choice dinners before. But before I started low
carbing I did eat a lot of Stouffers, Lean Cuisine, Michelina's, and Budget
Gourmet and I enjoyed them. None of them had the artificial, nastiness of
this brand!

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"Carmen" wrote in message
...
Hello,
On 17-Feb-2004, "Jenny" wrote:

I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting. I'd carefully read the label on another flavor of this
new low carb line and it looked okay, so I grabbed this one since it
was a
buy one, get one free sale. When I got home I discovered the Chicken
one was
full of trans fat, tapioca starch and sugar.

The "chicken" nuggets tasted squashy and artificial. The sauce was
thin and nasty.
Snip

Thank you for the review. I think I'll give this a miss. :-)

Take care,
Carmen

Low carb goes way back before the 60s.

I was just reading an Angela Thirkell novel published in 1940 in which one
of the characters is obsessed with diet. She goes to great lengths to find a
special bread without starch. She's not at all happy when offered "reduced"
starch bread instead.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"The_Pittmans" wrote in message
...

"Jenny" wrote in message
...
I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting. I'd carefully read the label on another flavor of this new
low
carb line and it looked okay, so I grabbed this one since it was a buy
one,
get one free sale. When I got home I discovered the Chicken one was full
of
trans fat, tapioca starch and sugar.

The "chicken" nuggets tasted squashy and artificial. The sauce was thin
and
nasty.

There's a snarky paragraph on the back from Weight Watchers about how
all
nutrients are important and you shouldn't get into "fads" which sounds
like
a semi-anti-low carb statement. I found that odd on a product that was
obviously being marketed as low carb.


Funny how they now say Low-Carb is a fad. I mean that is what they said in
the 70's. I think after 30 years, it no longer is a fad.

Patty

I do wish someone would put out an inexpensive low carb line that wasn't
all
full of artificial crap because sometimes it's fun to have a little
fancy
feed when I'm home alone and don't feel like cooking. But this isn't it.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2
diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm









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Jean,

I just pawed through the trash to check and yes, it was Smart Ones Weight
Watchers brand, not Healthy Choice! That's what I get for relying on my
feeble memory.

It says "The Truth About Carbs" on the cover.

Apologies to Healthy Choice!

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.2.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"Jean B." wrote in message ...
Dawn wrote:

"Jenny" wrote in message
...
I tried the Creamy Chicken Parmesan with veggies.

Disgusting.

Thanks for the warning. I guess my husband will keep getting tuna,
green salad and cottage cheese for lunch.

Dawn

Is that Healthy Choice or Smart Ones? Smart Ones has something
like that I think.
--
Jean B.

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:13:38 -0500, "Jenny"
wrote:

Low carb goes way back before the 60s.

Before the 1860's even:

"It can be deduced, as an exact consequence, that a more or less rigid
abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury will lead to the
lessening of weight"

"'Oh Heavens!' all you readers of both sexes will cry out, 'oh Heavens
above! But what a wretch the Professor is! Here in a single word he
forbids us everything we most love, those little white rolls from
Limet, and Achard's cakes, and those cookies from . . ., and a hundred
other things made with flour and sugar and eggs! He doesn't even
leave us potatoes or macaroni! Who would have thought this of a lover
of good food who seemed so pleasant?'"

"'What's this I hear?' I exclaim, putting on my severest face, which I
do perhaps once a year. 'Very well, then; eat! Get fat! Become ugly,
and thick, and asthmatic, and finally die in your own melted grease: I
shall be there to watch it. . .'"

"Shun anything made with flour, no matter in what form it hides; do
you not still have the roast, the salad, the leafy vegetables?"

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "The Physiology of Taste: or
Meditation on Transcendental Gastronomy" originally published in 1825.

Hello,
On 18-Feb-2004, "Jenny" wrote:

I tried the other Healthy Choice dinner today, "Creamy Chicken
Tuscan" and though it didn't have the transfat in the ingredients,
it tasted
even nastier.
The "chicken" was some kind of chicken jello block, which had a
pillowy texture. The sauce had a chemical taste and made the whole
kitchen
smell bad.

Shudder. The "sponge chicken" I abhor. Not only has it been chopped,
formed, pressed and extruded I suspect it's also been put through a
good decade of storage in the dried state on a shelf somewhere then
reconstituted.
I saw the other post where you said it was actually Weight Watchers
brand. I'll watch out for it (with an eye towards running away if it
makes a move near my cart G).

I'd never eaten the Healthy Choice dinners before. But before I
started low carbing I did eat a lot of Stouffers, Lean Cuisine,
Michelina's, and
Budget Gourmet and I enjoyed them. None of them had the artificial,
nastiness of this brand!

Frozen meals aren't something I've eaten since my low fat days. I
used to eat the Weight Watchers angel hair pasta pretty regularly, and
enjoyed it, though. I buy the Michelina's for the DD, because she has
this *thing* for one meal called Poppin' Chicken. They're chicken
nuggets with mashed potatoes formed into smiley faces so you can pick
them up like a tater tot. After they come out of the oven the darn
faces look like they've forgotten the sunscreen. :-) Ah, youth!

Take care,
Carmen