TV Dinners are prepackaged frozen meals that commonly come as an individual portion. These meals contain all the components of a single-serving, required minimal preparation to be ready to eat. The word ‘TV Dinner’ is a trademark, that has now been genericized, but was first for a packaged meal brand namely C.A. Swanson & Sons. Originally, the TV dinner meals used to come in aluminum trays and were heated in the oven. Now a days, these trays are made out of material that can be used with microwaves, which is usually plastic.
Diet Plan
The lean cuisine range is a frozen TV dinner’s snacks line that are very low in calories and fat. The diet allows the dieter to consume six types of meals namely, Dinnertime selects, one-dish favorites, Casual Eating, Café Classics, Spa Cuisine Classics and Comfort Classics. The diet offers a wide variety of food to choose your meal from. The meals vary from 10g fat with 300 calories for each serving to 6g fat and 500 calories.
Menu
The diet comes with a variety of food choices on its menu.
Breakfast: The diet does not have any specific pack for breakfast, so the dieter has to come up with one on their own to start their day. The breakfast has to be healthy and low in calories and fat as well, so the choice needs to be wise.
The choices for breakfast are a low-sugar and high-fiber cereal with strawberries and skimmed milk, or a cup of oats (with a low or no fat sweetener) with one orange or an apple.
Lunch: The diet has a lot of relatively healthy and low fat meals to
offer for lunch. The options include Almond Chicken, Beef Portobello and Deluxe French Bread. The calories and fats in the meals are 250 calories with 4g fat, 220 calories with 6g fat and 340 calories with 10g fat respectively,
Dinner: The dinner, being the last meal of the day, is designed to be a big one. The items that the dieter is allowed to have for dinner include Orange Peel Chicken or Steak Tips Dijon. These include 280 calories with 9g fat and 280 calories with 7g fat respectively. Most of the choices in the spa cuisine classics, dinnertime selects and café classics have a main course and a side course of potatoes, rice or vegetables, which means that the lean cuisine diet is not helpful for those who are on a low-carbohydrates diet.
Results
The lean cuisine diet does help the dieters lose weight. However, the results of
the diet take a long time to show; they’re not instantly evident. People who were or had been on the diet commented that the diet is a good way to lose weight because it gives a variety of meals for everyone’s taste and also includes vegetables in it, making it healthy. The meals are low in calories and fat which helps lose weight while catering the different tastes of different users. On the other hand, a few people also commented that at the end of the day, these meals are processed and contain a very high level of sodium. Therefore, the frozen entrees are not healthy for those who are on a low-sodium diet.
The diet was convenient for those dieters who required a quick alternative to cooking their own meals. However, it was not convenient for those on the go since the food must be kept frozen at all times and requires a microwave to prepare. Another frequent problem was that the diet does not lay out the complete meal plan for the dieters, creating further complications.
Reviews
There are several success stories of the people who have been on the lean cuisine diet. The dieters have published it on their blogs, websites, and other forums. The diet allowed them to lose 2 lbs per week. The dieters who shared their success stated that they find the lean cuisine diet really economical and easy to work on. It helps them lose weight without feeling deprived of eating foods they like.
