Every now and then, I love to have a thread about the new food products that we're all finding and trying in our local stores. Since I found a new product today that I wanted to report on, I figured it was time for this thread again!
New to my local Giant is Haagen Daz Light Ice Cream. It is half the fat and 29% less calories than regular premium ice cream. A 1/2 cup serving will set you back 190 calories and 5 grams of fat. If you're the type that would rather have "the real thing," I highly recommend it. I tried the Dutch Chocolate flavor and it was incredibly good. Wonderful flavor, texture and mouth feel. I would have never guessed it was less ANYthing.
What new products have YOU tried lately?
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wow, i just had the General Tsao chicken from health choice cafe steamers and it was yummy. i added a bunch of steamed broccoli to raise the veggie portions but it was good. it needed a little salt but i enjoyed it a lot.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
i just tried vita muffin (the chocolate ones). they are pretty good. not as sweet as a brownie but i do like them a lot. kind of expensive though.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
Lite Laughing Cow cheese. Swiss flavor. 25 calories each.
This is our go-to instead of mayo on sandwiches & wraps now. We buy all the flavors, though Had the herb on bread, with a slice of low-fat cheddar cheese for creamy, decadent-tasting grilled cheese sandwiches.
Originally posted by iz: Mochi Ice Cream. like japanese ice cream bon bons. about 100 calories per bon bon. found them at trader joes but have seen them at asian grocery stores. had the strawberry. very yummy.
The mango and the green tea are really good too.
Dawn
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Posts: 4111 | Location: Indianapolis, IN | Registered: March 15, 2004
Mochi Ice Cream. like japanese ice cream bon bons. about 100 calories per bon bon. found them at trader joes but have seen them at asian grocery stores. had the strawberry. very yummy.
i like all the Healthy Choice cafe steamers that are based in a cream sauce. the wine-based sauces were without flavor. and i don't eat the beff ones. try the chicken ones in cream sauces. very yummy. less than 300 calories.
Lite Laughing Cow cheese. Swiss flavor. 25 calories each.
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
Originally posted by iz: Health Choice Cafe Steamers are yummy. I had the salmon with dill sauce for breakfast. so so good. i might have to do a drive by tomorrow to get more!
Owww! I love those . The salmon is the only one I have had but I always keep a couple in the freezer. Never tried it for breakfast .
This may or may not be a "new product" but we just discovered it. Uncle Ben's Ready Rice, Whole Grain Brown. You just nuke it for 90 seconds. The package serves 2, perfect for me and dd. Just 3 grams of fat (11%) and only 15 mg sodium. They have other flavors like Teriyaki(sp?), Vegetable, and Four Cheese but those all have over 700mg of sodium. Dd used the brown rice to make her own version of "fried rice" (we ate at a chinese place Saturday for our Red Hat Lunch) last night and it was great. I don't know everything she put in it but I know it had brocolli and carrots & cumin(sp?).
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Posts: 3714 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
Health Choice Cafe Steamers are yummy. I had the salmon with dill sauce for breakfast. so so good. i might have to do a drive by tomorrow to get more!
Goals: 1. Stop thinking like a chronic dieter and start living to inspire. 2. HALT (hungry, anxious, lonely, tired) I will stop and tune in with myself should I experience these things, and respond with something healthy. 3. One word 2008: courage 4. Eat slow and mindfully.
I have been watching the sales on healthy frozen dinners and picking up a couple now and then to keep in the freezer for those nights after work when I don't have the brainpower to do much more than push buttons (or when I'm trying to keep myself from eating something less healthy).
I have been eyeing the new (to me) Eating Right line of frozen dinners. They went on sale last week, so I picked up a couple. I had my first one--the Sesame Chicken--the other day. The box description is "Tender breaded white meat chicken, spaghetti, green beans and bell peppers in a tangy sesame dressing."
The numbers: 370 calories 5g fat 0.5 sat fat 0 trans fat 25mg cholesterol 450 mg sodium 67g total carbs (!!!!!) 3g fiber 19g sugars (!!!!!) 16g protein
My review:
Pros:
The chicken was VERY tender and appeared to be good-quality white meat chicken and not mystery meat that you sometimes see in frozen dinners.
The sauce was yummy and, overall, the taste of the dinner was good.
Cons: The chicken, which was breaded, was sitting in the sauce, so the breading was soggy. Even though I am a texture nut and this could have ruined the dinner for me, the taste was good enough to keep me eating.
There were almost no veggies--VERY disappointing. There were a couple French-style shavings of green beans and some flecks of red pepper, but the overall effect was of eating chicken and pasta in sweet sauce with no veggies.
As with most frozen dinners I've tried, the sauce is clear at one end of the tray and, when the tray is full, it's very hard to distribute the sauce (in this case, get some of it to the other end where the spaghetti and vegggies were) without making a royal mess. Once I'd eaten about half the meal, I was able to stir it all together more and that helped a lot (I am not all that jazzed about the taste of plain spaghetti).
Would I buy it again? Yes, because there aren't a lot of healthy frozen dinners that I'll eat and I'd know next time that I had to fix some veggies or a salad on the side.
Anyone try new products that they want to share with the class?
Posts: 7013 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by D in St Pete: Peg, if it were me...I'd add some okra, celery, green or pole beans, green peppers, onions--any or all of that to the leftovers. You could serve it with sliced ripe tomatoes on the side, or black-eyed peas, lima beans, or pole beans. Sugar snaps on the side would be tasty, too.
I was pretty much going to suggest the same thing...
Peg, if it were me...I'd add some okra, celery, green or pole beans, green peppers, onions--any or all of that to the leftovers. You could serve it with sliced ripe tomatoes on the side, or black-eyed peas, lima beans, or pole beans. Sugar snaps on the side would be tasty, too.
Tried the new reduced sodium Zataran's Jambalaya mix last night. It has 1/2 the sodium of their regular mixes but a serving still has 15% of your DV of sodium (before you put whatever meat/protein you want in it). It was quite good and still plenty salty for me. It was yummy.
The only problem was the meal was totally absent of vegetables and for the life of me, I couldn't think of what I would have served with it if I had thought of it before 8pm when I was ladling it into a bowl. Any ideas? I have a bunch leftover...probably shouldn't have 3-4 veggie free meals. Salad is an obvious yet less than favorite choice. Other thoughts?
Have you seen Diet Coke Plus? It has vitamins & minerals added. I haven't seen any advertising for it and didn't know it even existed. Just happened upon it by accident at Publix over the weekend.
Nutritional Listings for 6 oz: Cal 0 Fat 0 Sodium 30mg Carb 0 Protein 0
Niacin 15% B6 15% B12 15% Magnesium 10% Zinc 10%
I notice just a very slight (almost non-existent) difference in taste.
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Posts: 3714 | Location: NE Atlanta (Chamblee, Doraville, Norcross, Duluth) | Registered: March 15, 2004
Tried a new Lean Cuisine tonight for dinner. It's called "Ginger Garlic Stir Fry with Chicken" and it boasts that it has "TWICE the VEGGIES of an average Lean Cuisine entree."
It had cubes of white meat chicken, what they call "whole grain rice" and several veggies: broccoli, carrot, red bell pepper and sugar snap peas. There was a sauce on the whole thing that was sweet but with a heat (spicyness) that built as I ate it. The sauce tasted very familiar--maybe the same as on the potstickers Lean Cuisine I have had a time or two, not sure.
My thoughts--too much sauce (though the sauce is darned tasty) and/or too little rice (couldn't quite figure out which). The broccoli (which I don't like but did eat one) was very limp and watery. The snow peas were better. The carrots were shredded, so you don't get a lot of carrot taste. The red bell pepper was in such tiny pieces that I didn't taste it much. Overall, not bad and not great. Might get it again.
290 calories 4g total fat (1g satfat/1.5 polyunsat) 640 mg sodium 46g carbs 4g fiber 19g sugars! 17g protein
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Posts: 7013 | Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE | Registered: March 12, 2004
Kashi 7 grain pilaf. Yum! I made mine in vegetable broth and I'm eating it with TJ's frozen "Green with Envy" veggies that I microwave steamed with a little vegetable broth and freshly ground pepper.
Dawn
"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire." anonymous
Posts: 4111 | Location: Indianapolis, IN | Registered: March 15, 2004
Originally posted by MaryJo: I tried a double shot wheat grass today!!
Well, I am going to say that this is an acquired taste. I had to hold my nose while I drank it.
We have been learning about super foods in my nutrition class and wheat grass is really very good for you, but specifically in the juiced form.
Before I bought the special juicer (you can not use just any juicer) I went to the local health food restaurant.
I want to say....yuk....but I won't because it went down very quickly and they give you a little slice of orange to kill the taste, so I really only noticed the yuk for a second. And I reminded myself how happy all of my organs and cells were as it went down !
MaryJo,
I like to use greens (I really like Green Magna concetrate) in with my smoothies for my vitamin and mineral boosts I agree, the wheatgrass juice by itself is rather interesting, but if you put it in with a smoothie, it is rather yummy.
Blessings,
Lori
Healthy Habits Challenge Goals: 1. Follow DASH diet recommendations and complete checklist each day. 2. Exercise for at least 20 minutes 3 days first week (this goal will increase each week). 3. Maintain food journal on WW Online.
Posts: 3088 | Location: California | Registered: March 11, 2004
Well, I am going to say that this is an acquired taste. I had to hold my nose while I drank it.
We have been learning about super foods in my nutrition class and wheat grass is really very good for you, but specifically in the juiced form.
Before I bought the special juicer (you can not use just any juicer) I went to the local health food restaurant.
I want to say....yuk....but I won't because it went down very quickly and they give you a little slice of orange to kill the taste, so I really only noticed the yuk for a second. And I reminded myself how happy all of my organs and cells were as it went down !
Posts: 1355 | Location: West Florida | Registered: March 12, 2004
Originally posted by sahm: Snap Pea Crisps Original Baked
My son (6yo) loves these---i think they have such an awful aftertaste. But that's good cause it is a snack I can keep in the house that I won't eat! They have a smidge of protien. ?? do you think they are REALLY snap peas? the package says so...but hmmm... a bit more protein than your standard chip.
Amy,
I've been trying to figure this out myself...you know, they have a rice flour as well. now I don't know if they are just "breaded" in the rice flour, or if they are pureed with the rice flour and then pressed into the snap pea shape and baked. But honestly, they are so good, they don't have transfats or hydrogenated fats, and they are relatively healthy. I don't care TOO much for how they are made...they are a better alternative to chips, esp for that TOM.....when I really crave chips.
Blessings,
Lori
Healthy Habits Challenge Goals: 1. Follow DASH diet recommendations and complete checklist each day. 2. Exercise for at least 20 minutes 3 days first week (this goal will increase each week). 3. Maintain food journal on WW Online.
Posts: 3088 | Location: California | Registered: March 11, 2004
Had the herb on bread, with a slice of low-fat cheddar cheese for creamy, decadent-tasting grilled cheese sandwiches.
. The salmon is the only one I have had but I always keep a couple in the freezer. Never tried it for breakfast 
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I tried a double shot wheat grass today!!
