box dinners

imstrong4me
imstrong4me Posts: 119
in Food and Nutrition
how many of you sometimes make box dinners I know its not healthy for ya I know its high in sodium and all the other bad stuff for you im gonna try and avoid it

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  • jessmart83
    jessmart83 Posts: 283 Member
    I try to avoid them as much as possible. That being said, I work full time and go to school full time, so some nights i tell my bf to pop that frozen lasagna in the oven, or make some hamburger helper.
  • caribear1984
    caribear1984 Posts: 203
    I used to make them regularly, but they are sodium bombs and I am sensitive to sodium. My alternative was to get the e-cookbook from mamaandbabylove.com, they are recipes for crockpot meals that you assemble and freeze. Super easy, yummy, less sodium and cheaper than box dinners.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I've had mac'n cheese maybe twice in a year, and that was before I even started counting calories. That's about it.
  • sjeannot
    sjeannot Posts: 143
    I cook about 95% of the foods I eat but also do have other pre-made food often. I hardly eat out but every once in a while, I do. Regardless of what I am buying whether it is food to cook myself, pre-made and box foods, snacks or anything, I have a habit of looking at the nutritional information and that is how I decide whather it is something I need to be buying or not. The first thing I look at is the calories from fat. If the calories from fat is more than 30% of the calories, most of the time I won't buy it because it has too much fat; unless it is something that contains like almonds or something. So if a food has 400 calories and the calories from fat is less than 120, I will buy it but if it is more, I won't.

    Next I look at sodium and sugar. I try to get things that are low in sugar because I do not want to overload on the sweet. As for sodium which many of the box foods have a high percentage of, I found the healthy choice ones to be some of the lowest. So do gluten free foods and you can find a lot of those gluten free box foods at the whole foods or healt store; even in Shoprite, Stop N Shop or C Town sometimes.

    Hope that helps. I can blabber on for days, so I will leave it at that. :)

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