Prevention.com recently posted an article called The Best and Worst Diet Foods including information about how frozen meals can help with weight loss:

“A 2004 University of Illinois study found that women who followed a 1,365-calorie diet in which they ate two packaged frozen entrées a day shed about 5 pounds more in 8 weeks than those who were instructed to follow a diet (with the same number of calories) based on the food pyramid.”

Frozen foods are very convenient but you have to watch out because many of them have a heavy calorie and/or fat price tag. I have tried a lot of varieties of “diet frozen meals” like Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice and Weight Watchers and have found that many of them are bland or just plain bad. I have found a few winners along the way though.

1. Michael Angelo’s Frozen Dinners - These are some of be best tasting frozen meals I’ve ever tried! This brand is not a “diet food” label but most of the meals are between 250 and 400 calories. All of them are Italian and my favorites are manicotti, vegetable lasagna and cheese lasagna.
2. Lean Cuisine / Stouffers Panini sandwiches taste great!
3. Frozen vegetables - It’s almost pointless for me to buy fresh veggies as half the time they go to waste. But frozen veggies are always crisp and taste better than canned.
4. Sante Fe Rice - Weight Watchers and Lean Cuisine both have a Spanish rice entree that is good.
5. Macaroni & Cheese - Stouffers has the best taste and is not that much higher in fat/calories than a diet brand.

So those are a few of my favorite frozen diet foods. How about you?

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