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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 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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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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 |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
"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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
"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 |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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. |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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 |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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 -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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SMART ONES ow Carb Dinner - YUK!
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. |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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. |
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Healthy Choice Low Carb Dinner - YUK!
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 |
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