My name is Timothy Harlan and I am both a physician and a chef. This blog is a general collection of information and random ideas on eating great food and eating healthy.
Last month I discoveredLean Cuisine’s new “Veggie Cuisine” line. As you may recall, the Enchilada Rojo was good, but the Indian Masala… wasn’t. When we reviewed these meals a month ago, they were so new that they didn’t appear in [...]
Q: I know that high fructose corn syrup is bad for me. Now that I’m reading labels more carefully, I’m very surprised at how often it shows up in prepared foods, even as an additive in supposedly healthy whole-wheat bread. I love to [...]
We’re always on the lookout for fish or shellfish meals so that you can incorporate fish into your diet more easily. Unfortunately, they just don’t stand up well to the kind of treatment required for frozen meals – which is essentially being cooked twice.
Stuffed Shells with Marinara Sauce
and Manicotti with Marinara Sauce
I have a friend with Celiac disease and he’s one of the reasons we here at Dr. Gourmet started our section for those who need to eat gluten-free. We were having dinner together not too long ago, [...]
We here at Dr. Gourmet have been doing reviews of frozen meals for a long time. I mean, a long time. Food brands have come and gone in the last ten years or so that we’ve been reviewing these foods (Advantage\10 [...]
If you look at the list of our reviews, it’s pretty clear that overall, the gluten-free options get better reviews than their more mainstream counterparts. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when the frozen meals designed for people with special dietary needs are so [...]
Meal replacements have long been a popular way to lose weight. Metrecal was one of the first meal replacement drinks, introduced in the 1960’s as a high protein powder that could be mixed with water and drunk in place of a regular meal. Slim-Fast in [...]
I look around grocery stores a lot. Not just to find items for us to review on Fridays but just to keep up with what’s going on. I pass by the soup aisle all the time, stop, look a bit and always move on. The [...]
Last month I talked about lying with statistics and how food companies use science to mislead you. Someone actually does that research, and those “experts” and others are used to put a scientific face on and bring authority to the technique of lying with [...]