Chef Tim Says….
We have been reviewing convenience foods here at Dr. Gourmet for a few years. The idea began because my patients talked about eating Lean Cuisine meals. I will admit that at the time I hadn’t had a frozen meal in longer than I [...]
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It may interest you to know that the food you keep at home provides 72%, by weight, of all food that you eat. This is assuming that you do not prepare most meals at home, however. If you do make most of your meals at home (breakfast [...] “New Recipe!” they both say on the box. These are full meals from Healthy Choice – entree, veg, starch and dessert. This week I chose their Beef Tips Portobello and their Classic Meat Loaf, which have 270 and 360 calories respectively. The amount of sodium in each meal is fairly reasonable – for processed foods: [...] I’ve given Amy’s a pretty hard time about the amount of sodium in their foods, especially when their “Light in Sodium” products are so good. It just doesn’t seem necessary for frozen foods to have that much salt when the company has amply demonstrated that their foods [...] Q: What does avoiding eating frozen foods have to do with being on Coumadin (warfarin)? A: Vitamin K is not listed in the Nutrition Facts box on frozen food packages (indeed, it is not on any [...] We’ve reviewed plenty of pocket sandwiches that have ranged from satisfying (Kashi’s Turkey Fiesta) to downright awful (Lean Pocket’s Three Cheese Chicken Quesadilla). Generally speaking they’re on the down side of acceptable, so after testing ten or so I figured we’d done about all of the “We [...] I have criticized the folks at Amy’s for putting more salt in their products than necessary. I doubt that they care much what I say but I’d like to think they are paying attention. That’s why I was interested when I came across their Thai [...] I have been looking for fish sticks and just haven’t been able to find any to review. This is because the big companies put so many chemicals in their products that I don’t feel all that comfortable reviewing them (let alone having to eat them). [...] Those of you who follow these reviews know that while I am not a fan of convenience food, I am realistic enough to know that some people are going to use them as part of their day to day lives. One reason I don’t [...] I have said in the past that the typical American eats over 6000 milligrams (or 6 GRAMS) of sodium per day. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (2010;362:590-9) means I’m going to have to update that figure: the latest estimates, [...] |
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