Lean Cuisine Meals > Reviews > I LOVE my Lean Cuisines

Author's product rating:   

Taste	Delicious
Effectiveness	Excellent
Price level	High

Advantages:	Tasty, convenient, nutrition information is printed on the box
Disadvantages:	could be expensive for some people;  sodium content is quite high

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Lean Cuisine is a range of pre-packaged frozen meals for those people who want to eat a lower calorie intake and lose weight, and are great for people to take as lunches to work as they cook in minutes in a microwave.

The range is very complete, and they cater to all tastes. There are Asian style dishes for those who like me love Chinese food - teriyaki beef, oriental beef, chicken fried rice for instance. For those whose passion is Italian, they do spaghetti, lasagne, and some other pasta selections, and they do a range of everyday type meals with vegetables.

Most of the selections are between 250-320 calories and they have a nutrition guideline on the package so you can check fat gms, sodium and cholesterol content, ideal for those who have other dietary problems and need to keep track of their intake of those items.

I find them very convenient, especially since when one first begins trying to lose weight and eat healthy, it is hard to guage portion sizes correctly and especially to estimate how much fat is in an item, for instance. These take the guesswork out of it. You can easily include them in a meal plan, count the calories, the fat gms, the sodium, and help yourself to better health.

I find that the portion sizes are good for lunch but maybe a little small for dinner. They do a couple of selections that are slightly larger portions but you can do the same at home simply by adding a portion of frozen vegetables into the dish before you miscrowave it. Green beans work especially well for this but I've also done brussels sprouts this way too, and they both work very well in the Asian ranges, which are my passion.

There are only two downsides to using Lean Cuisine meals, one is that they could prove too expensive for some people to use all the time (people on fixed incomes for instance) and the other is that they are quite high in sodium, so people with high blood pressure would need to keep check on that and counterract it by cutting sodium in their diet elsewhere.

Overall though, they are convenient, tasty and ideal for those of us who need to lose a few (or more) pounds, or for weight maintenance.