Lazy Guy’s Food Review: Lean Cuisine ‘Simple Favorites’ Chicken Fried Rice

Editor's Note: My beautiful wife, 'The Lazy Girl’, invited me to post here every now and again.  We thought it would be fun to have a Lazy Guy’s point of view.

Just some quick background on me... I too have struggled with my weight. But seeing how well my wife was doing, I jumped on the bandwagon earlier this year.  I started to use the MyFitnessPal Android and iPad app in January. By tracking everything I consumed, I quickly discovered that I was eating a lot of useless crap.  Now, my wife and I cook together (good foods) and I run at least three times a week. I have lost 30 lbs and I am down at least two pant sizes. I love to eat, so this has been a little hard, but it has worked. What more can you ask for?

Thanks to my lovely wife’s help, I take my lunch to work now. It was all a part of my commitment to stop eating fast food (except for ‘special occasions’). So I decided to change things up a little, breaking from my usual ham & Turkey sandwich of bread flats, and look into some of the low calorie frozen meals.  As I try new foods, I plan on reviewing them for you.  Please keep in mind that I am approaching this from a guy’s point of view.

Today’s review is for the Lean Cuisine ‘Simple Favorites’ Chicken Fried Rice.

My photo of my lunch
It never looks like it does on the box, does it?

Just the facts:

Calories: 260

Fat: 5g

Fiber: 4g

Protein: 12g

Sodium: 530mg

Carbohydrates: 41g

Diet Exchange: 1 Lean Meat,2 1/2 Starch,1 Vegetable

Weight Watchers® PointsPlus™: 7

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While watching The Biggest Loser last week, we saw Dolvett introduce a product to his team (gotta love product placement). When my husband and I saw the Yoplait Chocolate Banana Smoothie, we literally paused the show and he ran to the store to pick it up. We made the smoothies, unpaused the show and watched the rest of the show in absolute bliss. It was so yummy. There are several different yummy flavors, but the chocolate banana is my favorite. Each bag makes 2 smoothies, you just add skim milk. The smoothies are between 110 and 130 calories per serving.