On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:36:26 -0500, "Scruples"
> wrote:

>"Anon" > wrote in message
m...
>> Since my granddaughter went to visit her sister, I have been alone. I
>> usually don't have the ambition to cook a real meal just for me so I have
>> been eating a lot of TV dinners. Sometimes I add a salad to the meal. I
>> especially like the label that tells me how many carbs are in the meal.
>>
>> I like the Stouffer's, Healthy Choice and Smart Ones brands because they
>> have lower carb meals.
>>
>> Anon
>
>Just choose well. The Healthy Choice Tukey Dinner has 22 grams of carb, 200
>calories and 0 sugar, good choice. Unfortunately the pepperoni French bread
>pizza is 49 carb grams, 5 grams sugar and weighs in at 350 calories. The
>trick to any of this is to plan ahead about what you are buting, research
>and READ the ingredients. You can still have your TV dinners and eat them
>too
>
>A good rule of thumb is to not use the dinners with a bread or rice base or
>sweet sauces. I suppose for the zero carbers this won't work but as for me I
>am a well controlled diabetic for 15 years (no damage) and use approcimatly
>60-75 grams of carb per day. I do eat fruit, whole grain bread, Dreamfield's
>pasta (all in moderation!) and I eat cake on my birthday.
>
>You can check out the ingredients and nutrition on
>http://www.healthychoice.com/product...s/simple_s.jsp for Healthy Choice
>Meals.
>
I've found the hard way that labels are only a guide - and
often a very rough guide. Test an hour after a dinner the
first time you have it to see whether you should buy it
again.

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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