Comments on: Lean Cuisine… yum

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:24:33 +0000

I never heard of these things till about two years ago and my DR warned me about them. Let me give you a little back ground. In 2004 I was in a large explosion in Iraq. That gave me what is called a MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury). Unfortunately it was not discovered until early 2009 when my wife swore up and down I had PTSD. Both have roughly the symptoms. The only way to tell which one you have is by a test. Anyways when my Doc told me I had an MTBI he advised me on several things obviously one of them being my diet. He warned me of the meals by showing me what they make them out of. Do you wonder how they get them to have such low calories but what most would consider “acceptable” taste? The cook the food until all of the nutrients and flavor is gone and then they re-flavor it with highly refined petroleum. That’s right petroleum. The same crap that goes in your gas tank only very highly refined. That is probably why they smell so great when they are cooked as well. But now because of my injury I’m Paleo and I feel great, and I can remember alot better as well.

By: Ika

Ika — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:38:26 +0000

Hahaha everybody at my work lives off lean cuisine’s too…and I ALWAYS get the “what is that DELICIOUS smell??? Did you bring extra???” whenever I heat my food up. And my fianee says the same thing happens at his work when he heat up the lunchs I make him LOL

By: Dusty Grantz

Dusty Grantz — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:30:48 +0000

Very good article, thank you!

By: TPSW

TPSW — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:49:56 +0000

I, like newbie, have a 1.5 Q (little bitty) in my office that I use almost every day to warm up my lunch. I usually have some kind of meat that I have stewed with some kinds of vegetables and it draws questions daily. One of the other advantages it gives me is that I have to commit to my own lunch at least an hour in advance (it only cooks on low) so I have a great reason to say no to any eating out offers. Saves me money, gut and everything tastes better cooked normally instead of nuked.

By: arlojeremy

arlojeremy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:20:53 +0000

I sometimes have to sub on till at the grocery store that I work at and it breaks my heart when a pretty, but very overweight, girl comes through and her cart is full of all of this packaged junk that we’ve been lead to believe is not only healthy, but will help us lose weight.

Wish I could help, but it’s kind of impolite to imply that a customer is on a diet (ie: fat) and that everything they are buying is crap. :/

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:52:24 +0000

Something like this: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=8783

By: Newbie

Newbie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:56:38 +0000

I live where I work and enjoy tormenting people by having the slow cooker on…. they *always* ask what’s in it. I had 4 death threats the day I did a smoked ham hock stew

And yet half these guys bring in their plastic pots of junk… :/

By: Son of Grok

Son of Grok — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:24:30 +0000

I certainly don’t remember that. I remember me trying to trade other kids to get thier chips or pudding cups.

The SoG

By: mom of sog

mom of sog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:47:14 +0000

When SOG was in elementary school classmates would want to trade their $$$ fruit funs and other prepackaged ‘goodies’ with SOG’s carrots.
Imagine kids knowing what was good for them?

By: TrailGrrl

TrailGrrl — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:04:16 +0000

You are right, they aren’t usually Lean or Healthy. But they wash it down with a 20 ounce Diet Coke. Let’s talk about the other perennial office “healthy” portable lunch… the ubiquitous non-fat fake-flavored YOGURT. Or even better, the “carb conscious” non-fat yogurt.

I think I was better off as a kid when my mom would pack Kahn’s balogna on white Butternut bread, Grippos barbecue chips, and Hostess Ho-Ho’s. The ho-ho’s were a lot better back then…

People look at you funny when I microwave just leftover bacon or a piece of steak… anybody notice this???? I’m not sure if it’s the fact that it’s not cereal or yogurt, or the fact that they no longer know what steak even looks like.

Gotta love the new Health Choice Steamers.

TrailGrrl