box dinners

imstrong4me

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

jessmart83

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

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

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

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.