Lean Cuisine Chicken Parmesan

January 19, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Price: $2.00
Serving: 1 package, 11oz.
Calories: 280
Fat: 7%, 5g
Sodium: 21%, 510mg
Protein: 22g
Carbs: 12%, 36g
Fiber: 13%, 3g
WW Points: 5 Points

Lean Cuisine says: A roasted, herb-seasoned chicken breast topped with a flavorful tomato- basil sauce with Parmesan cheese. Accompanied by spaghetti, tossed with grilled zucchini, yellow peppers and tomatoes.

Abi says: Take a long look at the photo of this meal. You may have a bit of trouble finding the chicken, so I will help you out. The biscuit-cutter sized chicken cutlet is located on the left-hand side of the tray. Yes, biscuit-cutter size. If you don’t know the size of a biscuit cutter, then consider a soda can and the approximate diameter of a cross-section. Approximately 1.75 inches in diameter. Diameter is the one that goes across the circle. Circumfrence is the one that goes around the circle.

Do you ever feel odd about using decimal points and ’standard’ measurement. I feel weird about it, but I don’t stop doing it. This is partly because 1.75 in fractions doesn’t look so hot on the internet.

Regardless of the measurement system used, this is still a very, very small piece of chicken. I took one look at the cooked meal and started making post-Lean Cuisine Lunch Plans. You’ve been there. You know how it goes when you eat some sort of diet meal and realize that drinking 2 extra gallons of water a day is not going to make up for the immense hunger you feel. I don’t enjoy that feeling.

I think I’d be angrier about the lack of chicken, mediocre spaghetti (though significantly better than Smart Ones spaghetti that you’ll learn about next week), and super-mushy vegetables if I was not currently consuming Chex Mix and a Diet Coke. It is a great combo. If this Chex Mix contained some M&M’s then I would be perfectly happy. Ok, not perfectly. Perfect happiness might come at the confluence of Diet Coke, Chex Mix with M&M’s, and a lounge chair at a beach.

If you eat this meal, you will not be perfectly happy. You’ll be hungry almost immediately and you’ll be angry at all of the people around you because you totally know that you were gypped out of a good lunch. Also, the people around you will get mad at you for being angry because you’ve now read this review and should know better than to be mean to them.

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7 Responses to “Lean Cuisine Chicken Parmesan”

Tai on January 19th, 2007

Love the site, check on it often!

sidenote: if you hold the ‘alt’ button down while typing ‘0188′ it will give you Â¼, ‘alt’ combined with ‘0189′ give you Â½, and ‘alt’ combined with ‘0190′ gives you Â¾….

Cheers!

Tai
Colleen on January 20th, 2007

Awe, I love LC’s spaghetti and meat sauce. This can’t be bad!
Abi Jones on January 22nd, 2007

Tai -
The alt trick only works on programs in a Windows operating system (Microsoft Word, for example).

Colleen -
The lack of chicken was a real killer.
Mike Gordon on January 22nd, 2007

I love them and there is no better way to track points. BUT, one needs to not consider them the entire meal. Start with a salad, have the larger LC’s and end with a WW desert and you won’t go hungry.

Mike
Ennay on January 24th, 2007

Huh, I remember this one being one of my regulars before I got all wise to the whole grain thing. The lack of chicken didnt bother me as long as there was enough sauce and cheese to mix with the veggies.
sher on February 12th, 2007

i ate this for lunch today, and only wished i’d seen your review in advance. the pathetic chicken offering disappointed me, and my afternoon snack can’t come soon enough.
Cherish on March 1st, 2007

I could swear this use to come paired with the lasagne instead of whatever the lasagne is paired with now. Or maybe I’m just remenising about the Olive Garden combo… yum