"Alan S" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:36:26 -0500, "Scruples"
> > wrote:
>
>>"Anon" > wrote in message
om...
>>> 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.
> d&e, metformin 1000mg, ezetrol 10mg
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I've found that the labels on TV dinners are quite accurate. I can tell
because if I inject premeal insulin according to the net carb count, it
comes out about right every time.
Anon