I kvetch about processed food, but unfortunately, it's still a part of my life. The grocery store had Lean Cuisine entrees on sale and I though I'd stock up on a few because some nights who wants to cook?
Last night was one of those "I can't be bothered" nights and I went to the freezer and picked out a couple of boxes: Stuffed cabbage for Mr. L and turkey, stuffing and apples for me.
When I asked Mr. L how his dinner was, he grunted and said, "Not like Mary made." (Mary is his Polish mother.) Mine ... eeew! First of all, I am not a gravy fan and the stuffing was covered with it. The turkey was a tough as shoe leather, and the apples ...
Why do food manufactures always think they have to improve on nature? Apples are usually pretty sweet. I always buy unsweetened applesauce and am amazed at why anybody would buy them sweetened. You actually taste the apple in unsweetened applesauce, but when it's sweetened, all you taste is high-fructose corn syrup.
The apples in my entree were like that. Dreadful. I won't be buying that Lean Cuisine entree ever again.
Simple fact: if food manufactures didn't put so much salt in their products, there'd be a lot less people taking pills for hypertension. If food manufacturers didn't put so much corn syrup in everything we eat, there'd be less obesity.
End of rant (and this isn't even Pet Peeve Thursday).
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Try Smart Ones and/or Healthy Choice. Some of those are pretty good. (So sayeth the lady who has been on a diet since the first of the year.)
ReplyDeleteThe only frozen foods I can eat are vegetables.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that fruit doesn't need sweetening, but you forgot...peanut butter. I can't stand sugar in my peanut butter. Or in my cereal.
ReplyDeleteI tried the Lean Cuisine Pumpkin Squash Ravoli and LOVED it! But I do eat a few other frozen meals but not many.
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We will deliberately cook extra when something is on a good sale (pork roast, bone in chicken, extra burgers or turkey bratwurst) and freeze the leftovers for nights when we don't feel like cooking or don't have time.
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