Comments | shirleybelle: Holy cow!

shirleybelle

Holy cow!

Sep 16, 2003 18:40

I went to the grocery store to buy a frozen dinner, and I decided to look at the nutrition facts (or horrors) on those Hungry Man XXL dinners. For comparison, I'll do my dinner, and then I'll do the Hungry Man ( Read more... )

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fraisinette September 16 2003, 19:30:05 UTC

oh, but it gets better.

shirleybelle September 17 2003, 03:52:55 UTC

Omigod!! LOL I skipped the breakfast because I didn't think it would be that bad. Boy, I was wrong!

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shirleybelle September 17 2003, 03:53:53 UTC

Omigod yes, I feel so much better after looking at that, lol. If you want something else more shocking, it had about 1300 milligrams of sodium!

redlami September 17 2003, 08:42:40 UTC

44 grams of fat x 9 calories per gram = 396 fat calories, or 39% calories from fat.

8 grams of fat x 9 calories per gram = 72 fat calories, or 28% calories from fat.

it seems to be generally accepted that 30% or less of the calories should be from fat in healthy diet. so even if you ate 4 lean cuisines (1040 calories, 32 grams fat) you'd be doing a lot better than the hungry man meal. of course you'd probably be paying a lot more as well.

shirleybelle September 17 2003, 08:48:10 UTC

Hmmm.. definitely something to think about. Now I feel a lot better about what I've been eating. I still just am in shock in how awful those Hungry Man meals are for people and they just don't give a flying fig. I know a guy who eats two of them in one sitting! Ugh.