Low Frozen TV Dinners? - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

Sandra49 · 04-10-2005, 05:06 PM

Hi All,

It's been a long time since I posted. I am still on Norvasc, and still having good results. Now that is Spring, I would like to shed some weight again! I have been looking in the grocers, for quick meals, and am disappointed to see all frozen meals by Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine with sodium contents between 600 - 1500! Do any of you know of any low sodium frozen meals?

Moxie75 · 04-11-2005, 05:08 AM

Hi Sandra,

No I don't and I would stay away from frozen meals. If you want a quick replacement meal a slim fast shake is good. I prepare my weeks meals on a Sunday and feeze them in small portions. I also poach some or grille some skinless chicken breast and make chicken salad and make a sandwhich on 7 grain bread. I make enough to get me through a few days. This way you can monitor your own salt. I put no salt at all in my chicken salad the low fat mayo and mixtire of mustard provides a small amount of salt for taste. Another great healthy meal is a Crazy Richard's chunky peanut and strawberry sandwhich. I replace the jelly with fresh fruit... .Lisa

Lenin · 04-11-2005, 05:38 AM

Sandra,

Nope, none that I've found, and the painfully humorous thing is that Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice ARE the low salt alterntives. There are HUNGRY MAN cholces with 3 GRAMS of sodium and all the Sw@nson's, Banquet, Stouffer's regualar line are loaded with salt usually pushing the 2 gram barrier.

A sad fact is that even the two that are supposed to be "healthy and lean" achieve most of their salt reduction with preposterously small servings...and HIGHER prices.

I guess the only way to make overprocessed, tasteless food edible is to give them some taste cheapy...SALT!

Truth be told, I think most of the Stouffer's stuff, including the Lean Cuisine, is quite tasty. The 16 ounce Stouffer's Pot Pies are really delicious...and SALTY. I succumb about once a week when I can't bear to look at another POT...and I take an HCTZ after the meal.

If you are watching your waistline however, your choices are pretty much limited to the LC and the HC! (Or that ghastly BUDGET line: teeny servings that tastes like the cardboard packaging<yeccch!>)

mgraylorn · 04-11-2005, 10:43 AM

Lean Cuisine has a new line out with about 220-300 calories and less than 30% of the daily sodium recommendation. That's the lowest I've found.

Uff-Da! · 04-11-2005, 01:14 PM

When I was watching my salt intake more but wanted a quick meal without a lot of dishes, I'd choose one of the Healthy Choice 600 mg sodium meals and supplement it with fresh fruits and/or vegetables. Since the other two meals of the day would typically include things like homemade soup (from my freezer), a fresh salad, oatmeal and the like, I had more control over the sodium content in those meals and could end up with a total of under 2400 mg. or often under 2000 mg. for the day. A person who needed to severely restrict their sodium would have difficulty, though.