healthy choice

I am currently very please with the new selections provided by Healthy Choice. Their new menus now include whole grains, good fiber, low fat, lean protein options that are not only good for the body but also gives your taste buds a surprise with every meal. Of their wide variety, I am very fond of the Spicy Carribean Chicken. I would definitely recommend this meal for a night when you don't feel like cooking and still want a complete entree.

From HealthyChoice.com:

Spicy Caribbean Chicken

This enchantingly colorful meal includes pineapple, black beans, corn, and chicken tenderloins in jerk sauce over a succulent bed of whole-grain rice. And, with 30 grams of whole grains and 15 grams of protein, this meal packs in much more than just unforgettable flavor.

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 8.5 oz (241 g)

Calories: 310
Calories from fat: 20

Amount/Serving %DV*
Total Fat (2 g) 3%
Saturated Fat (.5 g) 3%
Trans Fat (0 g)
Cholesterol (20 mg) 7%
Sodium (290 mg) 12%
Vitamin A (10%)
Calcium (6%)

Total Carbohydrates (56 g) 19%
Dietary Fiber (6 g) 24%
Sugar (12 g)
Protein (15 g)
Vitamin C (30%)
Iron (8%)

Diet Exchanges Per Serving
Very Lean Meat --
Lean Meat (1)
Starch (3)
Carbohydrate --

Vegetable --
Fruit (.5)
Milk --
Fat --

Weight Watchers Points:

 6**
Contains: Soy

I usually don't endorse eating frozen convenience foods but this is a healthier alternative to what most of us are eating. Another benefit of eating out of a box is that it can teach us the appropriate portion sizes and help us in controlling our portions. Of course that is always easier said than done but we have to start somewhere!

the first snow

Dust of Snow

by Robert Frost (1923)

 

The way a crow
Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.