Anyone else living on ready meals?

ChelzFit

When I worked full time I used to rely on frozen meals and deli meats on my salads. Now that I am a SAHM, I take the time to meal prep and I love it. I bake or buy a roasted chicken and use the leftovers in my salads all week long with fresh cut veggies, avocado, dried fruit and nuts. I do depend on protein bars for snacks, but that is because I really love my quest bars!

Sabine_Stroehm

TeaBea wrote: »

MrsLannister wrote: »

The meals do come with vegetables. I also use a green superfood supplement and eat fruit. I'm not big on salads. There is a place down the street that has a decent cobb salad, but if I tried to make that myself it would go bad before I could eat it all.

I'm really not interested in cooking at all. I just make a mess and end up with stuff that goes bad. There is no room in my apartment freezer for doing the weekly cooking thing, either.

The quantity of veggies in most frozen dinners is sad. Frozen veggies are great add ins, they really "bulk up" the meal. I like Lean Cuisine Chicken Alfredo with 1/2 bag of Steam Fresh Broccoli. I can add 1.75 cups more food for 53 calories, I get lots of fiber too. Much more filling.

I re-heat the remaining broccoli at lunch time the next day.

The quality of veggies in most frozen dinners is sad too.

evesmom2

I haven't been cooking since January when hubby passed away plus I bought a new home and I'm trying to move and settle the estate and on and on and on. Lean Cuisine has been a godsend. Once things settle down, I'll go back to cooking because I miss doing it.

CooCooPuff

I find cooking my own meals tastes a lot better than anything Lean Cuisine would make. I'm a pretty crappy cook, but recipes online make it easy, and i just throw extra servings into the freezer.

If Lean Cuisines are your thing, then go for it. Just make sure you're eating enough.

MrsLannister

I'm surprised so many people think they have to much sodium. I checked all the ones in my freezer and they are all between 500 and 650 mg. I average about 1200 mg a day.

For reference, a cup of cottage cheese has 800 mg.

markrgeary1

Never. Ever look at the chicken or whatever protein is in those. That ain't chicken maybe some soylent green crap. Just say no to fake meat.

Try mastering one dish, something simple(omelette?). Then another once you learn what food is you'll be happy you learned.

beccapineapple8756

Is it possible to find a mate who enjoys cooking?

I use to live on my own But I had a friend that had to pick up hours at work and he didn't have the time to cook anymore. So we both chipped in to get a bunch of groceries and I use to spend 1 day fortnight cooking.

Only made a few different dishes in bulk and split them up to share between us.