Michellina's Frozen Dinners

FunnyDuddies · May 11, 2006

Just curious, but do any of you bandsters like these? They are super cheap (usually $.98 at Wally World) and are small portions. They have a gourmet line, a line with the basics like mac and cheese and meatloaf, a kids line with fun shaped chicken nuggets, and a diet line that even has some low carb options. Like I said, it is small portion, but that is why I thought it would be great for bandsters. I love their lean chicken alfredo, and their lean meatloaf and mashed potatoes. And the portion is perfect with a salad.

If you haven't seen them before check them out. The quality isn't like lean cusine, but the price is worth it, and come on...its a frozen dinner. what do you expect? LOL

Marimaru · May 11, 2006

'Banquet' also has some pretty decent cheap meals. I try not to have TOO many frozen dinners, just because of the sodium, but sometimes easy just wins, lol.

Jachut · May 11, 2006

I tend to avoid stuff like this becuase of the salt and additives, fresh food is better. But some of them are quite nice and they can make a convenient lunch.

The price puts me off though. They're 5 bucks a pop here.

FunnyDuddies · May 11, 2006

well most frozen meals are $5, and some lean cuisines are topping on $6 now, but these are 98 cents usually. I agree that fresh is better. We do fresh only in this house. But I know after i am banded there are going to be times that I need to pop something in quick while preparing the rest of the family a meal. I was wondering what bandsters out there thought of them.

MeganA · May 12, 2006

I have to warn you- I can't eat frozen meals when I'm really restricted. Most are noodles or rice with some Protein. They are a great sized portion- especially when you are newly banded and are getting used to the smaller sized meals.

Megan

FunnyDuddies · May 12, 2006

thanks megan! good to know they might be an issue.

legallyKristin · May 18, 2006

Yeh, I can't eat the dinners either. I tried in a time crunch last week. I got a golfball on the first bite.

I really didn't need to eat it anyway, WAY more carbs and sodium than if I just made something similar ahead of time and froze it.

I try to keep some quick dinners frozen for such emergencies. Which is easy to do since I generally have 4 meals off of one "pre-band" size plate of food. There are generally LOTS of leftovers.

FunnyDuddies · May 18, 2006

That is such a simple idea!! I can't believe I didn't think about that. I usually bag up and freeze spaghetti sauce and chili for quick dinners for the family. I don't know why I didn't think about doing bandster size meals like that. Thanks Kristen!!!! You rock.

Marimaru · May 19, 2006

I found some of these in my local grocery store and they aren't half bad. They aren't as good as some, but like my fiance says "calories are flavor particles".