Frozen Meals?

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  • JenHuedy
    JenHuedy Posts: 611 Member
    Lean Cuisines are OK. I like the Healthy Choice steamers a little more. Especially the Simply Steamers. I usually have to pair with a salad or extra veg to make them filling.

    Another option is to meal prep using mostly pre-prepped foods so you can get the macros you want without all the cooking time. Gather up various prepared ingredients like:
    - frozen veggies
    - precooked meats (chicken, shrimp, fish, meatballs)
    - frozen cooked quinoa or rice blend (or use cauliflower rice cook a batch of edamame spaghetti or other low carb pasta)
    - premade sauces (marinara, alfredo, stir fry/oyster/kung pao)

    Get some containers and start portioning out to fit your preferred macros/calories. Something like edamame spagetti, turkey meatballs and frozen broccoli. Or maybe stir fry veggies, cauliflower rice and chicken with kung pao sauce. Shrimp and alfredo sauce with spaghetti squash is also pretty good. I've been able to make quite a few combos with over 30 grams of protein for under 350 cals that are very filling. Take a look around your store's freezer section or deli and see what you can come up with!
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    seska422 wrote: »
    My favorite frozen meals right now:

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    I have breakfast sandwich every morning and my evening meal most days is a Lean Cuisine with a whole bag of steam-in-bag veggies.

    The frozen meals are high in sodium but I cut sodium elsewhere, for example by using unsalted butter.

    Have you tried the Jimmy Dean Delights Breakfast Bowls, or the Frittattas? Both super yummy, filling, good protein. I have either a breakfast sandwich, a bowl, or two of those egg fritattas a few times a week, other days I have Chobani yogurt and granola.

    I haven't tried those. Thanks for the suggestions.
  • CrazyCatLady916
    CrazyCatLady916 Posts: 29 Member
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    I eat these frozen burritos for lunch and they are delish!
  • tdesignr
    tdesignr Posts: 18 Member
    I recently had Lean Cuisine's butternut squash-stuffed ravioli. Totally looking forward to buying more and having it again! I'm also currently in butternut squash mood in general, too.

    I'm planning on trying more Lean Cuisines. Sometimes I'm too tired from work, gym and errands to cook dinner.
  • Kabootom
    Kabootom Posts: 27 Member
    I never prefer to eat frozen meals, it gives me feeling of the other planet where it is impossible to prepare meals with fresh food.
  • wilson10102018
    wilson10102018 Posts: 1,306 Member
    I went through just about every reasonable looking frozen meal when I started a couple years ago. Dozens. Other than Stouffers Lasagna, I did not find a single one that was edible. They are all drek.
  • chrisalexander851
    chrisalexander851 Posts: 14 Member
    My clinic recommended the realgood foods brand to me. They are mostly high protein/low carb. I'm generally not a fan of frozen dinners and I have only tried a few of them, but I thought they were pretty good.
  • Priasmama416
    Priasmama416 Posts: 103 Member
    Lean cuisine and smart ones are good,but as said it's the sodium issue. I feel it is sometimes better to pick a day ( i.e. Sunday) as a cooking day, then portion out your meals into ziplock/ rubbermaid type containers and put them in the freezer. This makes it easy to just grab and microwave your meals with better control over sodium and sugar
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,986 Member
    I agree with most of the advice here.
    That said? Yes. Batch cooking a few homemade frozen meals is probably the best way to get what you want.

    Some considerations:
    Do you have enough freezer room?
    If not, and you don’t plan on getting a larger freezer? You will also need to be buying your store bought frozen meals every few days.
    If that works for you? Great. The suggestions here are good. We use many of these for my husband’s lunches regularly.

    If you choose to batch cook -
    Amazon has some dishes that you can prepare meals and freeze them, and they’re microwave safe and reusable. Search for “single meal prep containers”
    You can put leftovers in these also, it doesn’t have to be all done in a massive cooking marathon.

    You can also make a bunch of burritos ahead of time and wrap them in foil.

    And a good travel container for salads - which you can make a few days ahead of time - is the trusty old mason jar.

    That should be enough to get you thinking about maybe batch cooking a little bit, anyhow.
  • OhMsDiva
    OhMsDiva Posts: 1,073 Member
    I never bought frozen meals and still don't. Having said that, I found myself at 500+ lbs in 2015. I decided to change my life. I joined a commercial weight loss program where 90% of the meals were frozen. I lost over 200 lbs.
    Now I cook for the most part. My point is frozen or prepared meals are not inherently unhealthy. Does not hep you any, as I do buy frozen meals from the store. They are very convenient and also tells you how many calories you are consuming.
  • ehju0901
    ehju0901 Posts: 394 Member
    The only one I really buy is the Smart Ones lasagna. I love me some lasagna, so it helps give me a little taste of something I want, while also limiting how much I am keeping on hand.

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