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Healthiest Supermarket Foods: Dairy Aisle

FitSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Women's Health has read all those confusing food labels for you and compiled a list of the 100 Best Supermarket Foods. Next time you're shopping in the dairy aisle be sure to put the following items in your grocery cart.

Curious about other foods? Then also check out healthy carbs and healthy Frozen Foods.

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Healthiest Supermarket Foods: Frozen Foods

FitSugar — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:30:00 -0700

Women's Health has read all those confusing food labels for you and compiled a list of the 100 Best Supermarket Foods. If you're looking to pick up some quick-to-make frozen foods, be sure to put the following items in your grocery cart next time you go shopping.

Curious about healthy carbs? Then also check out this list of healthy breads, pasta, and rice.

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Healthiest Supermarket Foods: Breads, Pasta, and Rice

FitSugar — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:30:00 -0700

Women's Health has read all those confusing food labels for you and compiled a list of the 100 Best Supermarket Foods. If you are craving some carbs here's what you should pull off the shelves next time you're grocery shopping.

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Food Review: Lean Cuisine Szechuan Shrimp Stir Fry

FitSugar — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0700

Though I sometimes eat Lean Cuisine products in a pinch, I'm not usually a fan of processed frozen food. But when these Lean Cuisine meals arrived at the office the other day, I recognized the Spa Cuisine Classics box from the 100 healthiest supermarket foods list. (The Chicken With Peanut Sauce was named best frozen dinner.) Better yet, the box proclaimed that the meal was preservative free, so I decided to try it.

I had the Szechuan Style Stir Fry With Shrimp, featuring whole-wheat noodles, baby corn, sugar snap peas, carrots, and bell peppers. After I zapped the meal in the Sugar HQ kitchen, several passersby said it looked delicious. To find out if it actually tasted good, read more.

I'm not sure how a frozen meal can be preservative-free, but it's true: there was nothing troubling on this ingredient list, aside from "caramel color." Mostly, it was shrimp and veggies, plus soy sauce, garlic, and seasonings. Though the box promises a "spicy Asian-style sauce," this dish wasn't at all spicy but actually rather sweet and mild. I was sad to find very few snap peas in my box, but the entree redeemed itself with flavorful shrimp and tender pasta that tasted fresh.

Flavor and texture-wise, the Spa Cuisine Classic impressed. Although some co-workers said the portion looked small, it filled me up quite nicely, and with just 240 calories and 2.5 grams of fat, it was a very healthy lunch. Unfortunately, like many frozen meals, this one is very high in sodium: It contains 760 mg, or 32 percent of your daily recommended intake. But if you're looking for a healthy, fast frozen lunch or dinner, this one is better than the average microwave meal, and I appreciate the lack of strange-sounding chemicals in the ingredients.

Have you tried these? If so, what flavor do you like?