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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:14 PM Feb 2021

I had a real good tasting lunch - Give me your thoughts

Weight Loss/Maintenance (Group) :

My problem is I like to eat, and I eat too much.
I found this very good tasting, and surprisingly filling.

I'd appreciate your thoughts, pro and con.
Thanks

Healthy Choice Simply Steamers Frozen Dinner Chicken & Vegetable Stir Fry 9.25 Ounce



Ingredients
vegetables (broccoli, carrots, edamame, onions, red bell peppers). seasoned cooked chicken (chicken breast, water, sugar, sea salt, olive oil, isolated soy protein, soy fiber, rice starch, natural flavoring). sesame soy sauce (water, soy sauce [water, wheat, soybeans, salt, alcohol, vinegar, lactic acid], sugar, rice vinegar, sake wine [contains salt], corn starch, garlic puree, sesame oil, ginger puree, locust bean gum). contains: soy, wheat.

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I had a real good tasting lunch - Give me your thoughts (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 OP
10 servings per container lol. is each piece of brocolli a serving? nt msongs Feb 2021 #1
1.0 servings Dream Girl Feb 2021 #3
I think it says 1.0 servings. I hope. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #4
Guess you missed the decimal point. notinkansas Feb 2021 #6
FOCUS left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #10
I like to eat too, but am down about 150 lbs in 30 months. I'm currently working on brewens Feb 2021 #2
Oriental? Not very PC Dream Girl Feb 2021 #5
I actually hadn't heard that was considered an offensive term. n/t brewens Feb 2021 #8
Apparently asians didn't know 'Orientals' is offensive left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #12
It's very dated and I believe is is offensive - living in San Francisco I can't imagine using that Dream Girl Feb 2021 #13
Oriental is a location. Asian is a people left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #11
It looks pretty good. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2021 #7
It would not be all that hard to create that PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #9
I too use boxed meals WhiteTara Feb 2021 #14
 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
2. I like to eat too, but am down about 150 lbs in 30 months. I'm currently working on
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:47 PM
Feb 2021

doing my own oriental style meals. I made some great fried brown rice the other day. I'll be doing some stir fry stuff like that real soon.

I started out eating meals like that, maybe that same one. I gradually converted to all home cooked stuff. Being a single guy requires some planning. It'll be kind of like an oriental week thing when I get it going. I can't stand throwing out produce, so I'll use the type of veggies I need in various oriental dishes all week, then the next week go back to the usual stuff. Moo goo gai pan is on my list of dishes to learn.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
12. Apparently asians didn't know 'Orientals' is offensive
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 03:09 PM
Feb 2021

Oriental is a location. Asian is a people.

"Apparently Asians are supposed to feel demeaned if someone refers to us as Orientals. But good luck finding a single Asian American who has ever had the word spat at them in anger. Most Asian Americans have had racist epithets hurled at them at one time or another. But Oriental isn’t in the canon.

And why should it be? Literally, it means of the Orient or of the East, as opposed to of the Occident or of the West. Last I checked, geographic origin is not a slur. If it were, it would be wrong to label people from Mississippi as Southerners."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
13. It's very dated and I believe is is offensive - living in San Francisco I can't imagine using that
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 04:44 PM
Feb 2021

among Asian coworkers, I would be mocked at the very least and called out at the worst. I'm black and it would be like calling me "colored" or "negro".

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
11. Oriental is a location. Asian is a people
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 03:07 PM
Feb 2021

Apparently Asians are supposed to feel demeaned if someone refers to us as Orientals. But good luck finding a single Asian American who has ever had the word spat at them in anger. Most Asian Americans have had racist epithets hurled at them at one time or another. But Oriental isn’t in the canon.

And why should it be? Literally, it means of the Orient or of the East, as opposed to of the Occident or of the West. Last I checked, geographic origin is not a slur. If it were, it would be wrong to label people from Mississippi as Southerners.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-tsuchiyama-oriental-insult-20160601-snap-story.html

The Velveteen Ocelot

(120,150 posts)
7. It looks pretty good.
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 01:58 PM
Feb 2021

The only problem with packaged foods is that they tend to have a lot of sodium, and this one also adds sugar, which you don't need. Since I placed myself on voluntary house arrest last March I've had pretty good success losing weight on an Atkins/keto-type diet, cutting out carbs as much as possible (no bread, pastries, potatoes, pasta, etc.), and I order groceries online for delivery so I'm not tempted by seeing or smelling things I shouldn't eat. I make my own meals mostly from scratch and only rarely get ready-made meals, and I've been getting pretty much the same food in every order. The weird side-effect of this monotony is that my meals are kind of boring so I don't eat as much as I would otherwise. But it's working; I've lost 48 lbs. in less than a year and am no longer officially overweight per standard weight and BMI charts. Try to make your meals more boring.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,570 posts)
9. It would not be all that hard to create that
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 02:04 PM
Feb 2021

stir fry from scratch. Buy some boneless chicken. Buy your favorite veggies. A bit of seasoning, whatever you like, and stir fry. It takes hardly any time and costs a fraction of paying someone else to do it somewhere.

WhiteTara

(30,128 posts)
14. I too use boxed meals
Mon Feb 15, 2021, 05:35 PM
Feb 2021

sometimes and that one looks like it's got good points. If you like it and didn't have to eat 2 to feel satisfied, I'd say, win win.

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