frozen box meals

Because of my busy lifestyle, I tend to eat box meals (i.e. healthy choice or similar frozen microwave dinners) when I am rushed or have no leftovers to eat for lunch. At 300-500 calories usually with a mix of fat/carb/protein, it's the best I can do. The alternate is skipping lunch, raiding a vending machine, or fast food. I supplement that with a lettuce wedge, celery and carrots, V8 juice and the occasional 2 tbsp of cream cheese or natural peanut butter if I get munchy in the afternoon.

How do peeps feel about frozen box meals? Not as a lifestyle, but as a tool?

I say go for it!  I know how it is to work 12 hour days and then come home and have to think about, ok what am I going to eat tonight?  It's very easy at that point to get McDonald's or some crazy 800 calorie burrito.   I usually go to Whole Foods because they have a large selection of healthy organic frozen dinners.  I like Amy's, Cedarlane, Cascadian Farms, Ethnic Gourmet Foods, and Kashi.  I try to keep them 450 calories and under.

I'm a huge fan of Lean Cuisine.  I have kids and a F/T job so the convenience is a necessity.  I usually take the smaller entree box to work along with a small salad to round out the mid-day meal and some fruit and yogurt for snacks.  I buy the bigger portions for my husband to make as his dinner when I'm not around.  Works for me!