The reason I love frozen meals...

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  • amyx593
    amyx593 Posts: 211 Member
    There are two frozen meals that I always pick up at the store!

    I love pad thai... so I always get the Lean Cuisine Thai-Style noodles w/chicken (580mg sodium) and have it with sriracha. The other is Healthy Choice Chicken Margherita with balsamic (600mg sodium). Gives me my pasta fix. These are the only two I eat and I'll have them for lunch 1-2x per week.
  • Greytfish
    Greytfish Posts: 810
    I won't be over 1,000 mgs most days.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Sodium doesn't bother me once in a while, honestly. But pizza is just way too much work for me to make, lol.

    I take a flatbread and I add bbq sauce, chicken and mozerella cheese and it takes only minutes to make this home made pizza and it's delicious. You can add any ingredients or a different sauce also to change it up by maybe having pepperoni with a mariana sauce. Really try the flatbread to make your own pizza the calories are low according to what you put on it :}

    Totally! Where do you buy flat bread though?
  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): 2300 mg
    American Heart Association (AHA): 1500 mg
    Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND): 1500 to 2300 mg
    American Diabetes Association (ADA): 1500 to 2300 mg

    Body and conditioning will mostly affect your natural blood pressure. How much sodium you consume in that range with raise or lower it, but no, it's not like calories where larger bodies use more.
    Ta. Still interested to know how they got those figures.
    I can have a lot higher levels than that for extended periods and still have blood pressure at around optimum levels.
  • Love4fitnesslove4food2
    Love4fitnesslove4food2 Posts: 711 Member
    I just started eating lean cuisines for convenience. I know how to cook and know all about healthy choices but it's a convenient, relatively healthy, and pretty tasty option for days I just don't want to cook. I don't care about sodium because when I make something at home it has as much/more sodium as a lean cuisine would. Meh, I say eat them if they satisfy you!

    Scary thought.

    Which part of that is scary? They don't make up the majority of my meals nor do I even eat them daily but I have purchased a handful to have on hand during particularly stressful time periods (law school finals) or when I just don't have time to be bothered with making something. My blood pressure is absolutely perfect, on the lower side actually. I have no reason to restrict my sodium intake.
  • gatorginger
    gatorginger Posts: 947 Member
    Sodium doesn't bother me once in a while, honestly. But pizza is just way too much work for me to make, lol.

    I take a flatbread and I add bbq sauce, chicken and mozerella cheese and it takes only minutes to make this home made pizza and it's delicious. You can add any ingredients or a different sauce also to change it up by maybe having pepperoni with a mariana sauce. Really try the flatbread to make your own pizza the calories are low according to what you put on it :}

    Totally! Where do you buy flat bread though?

    You can get flatbread at Publix and Winn Dixie and pretty much any grocery store
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    What on earth?

    So that's a rule is it? Frozen meal = low calories? So stick a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza in the freezer, put a nice box around it and then whack it out on a supermarket shelf and then bang goes another 350 calorie meal....
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    What on earth?

    So that's a rule is it? Frozen meal = low calories? So stick a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza in the freezer, put a nice box around it and then whack it out on a supermarket shelf and then bang goes another 350 calorie meal....

    The pizza hut stuffed crust pizza is way more than 350 calories though! If I could easily just buy a slice of pizza from a pizza place, I'd do that intead for sure, just not convenient unless you buy a whole pizza... then it totally defeats the purpose (especially as I had it for breakfast... hard to find pizza in the morning).

    Same problem with buying ingredients to make my own. What do I do with the extra?
  • Greytfish
    Greytfish Posts: 810

    Which part of that is scary? They don't make up the majority of my meals nor do I even eat them daily but I have purchased a handful to have on hand during particularly stressful time periods (law school finals) or when I just don't have time to be bothered with making something. My blood pressure is absolutely perfect, on the lower side actually. I have no reason to restrict my sodium intake.

    That food you cook at home would have more sodium, since most package foods add sodium to disguise fillers and promote excess consumption.

    I have always had perfect PB, even through law school and busy trial practice. Funny part is that excess sodium can not only increase BP, it can also lower it. even where it stays the same, it's making the kidneys bear an increased load.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    One frozen meal every 2 weeks is not going to ruin your kidneys. Just saying.
  • miceyl
    miceyl Posts: 11 Member
    That is a good idea for a specific craving ! For my taste the portions are too small and I don't like the additives and sodium. But I like to cook and challenge myself with coming up with meals that work for me. I think it can really be helpful to people to keep their calories under control, especially when they don't have time/desire to cook.
  • Greytfish
    Greytfish Posts: 810
    One frozen meal every 2 weeks is not going to ruin your kidneys. Just saying.

    I'll re-iterate so it's clear. That's a correct statement assuming that, unlike the poster above, the food you cook and consume at home actually has less sodium. If not, it's just perpetuating dysfunction in different packaging.

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