Does Lean Cuisine Diet Work?

First, What is Lean Cuisine?

Lean Cuisine is a brand of frozen entreés and dinners sold in the United States, Canada, and Australia by Nestlé. The brand began as low-fat, low-calorie versions of Stouffer's products. Today, Lean Cuisine includes traditional dinners, ethnic dishes, pizzas, whole-grain Spa Cuisine entreés, and panini. Wikipedia

A Lean Cuisine should meet a lean criteria: less than 10 grams fat, 4.5 grams or less saturated fat, and less than 95 mg cholesterol.

"Lean Cuisine" is a registered brand name, a trademark. There are brands similar to Lean Cuisine such as Weight Watchers and Healthy Choice. In Australia, a favorite is Birds Eye. In UK, a popular one is Diet Chef. In Spain, Amy's use only organic and non-GMO ingredients. GMO means genetically modified organism.

In other words, Lean Cuisine and other similar meals are ready-to-eat, no-cook, frozen, low calorie, low fat prepared meals for men and women who want to lose weight by controlling their calorie and fat intake.

Going back to the question but let's rephrase it.

Does prepared frozen diet meals, like Lean Cuisine, really work to lose weight?

The fact that this type of diet meals contains less fat and less calories, it should work to lose weight unless you eat a dozen trays of diet meals a day. Common sense is that it is not what you eat, but rather it is how much you eat. What is good about these diet meals is that you can watch your calorie intake conveniently because the amount of calories for each meal are labeled and calculated for you. Moreover, if you do not like cooking, these frozen diet meals are for you.

Among the cons of having a frozen diet meal are: you have to thaw it first, heat it or microwave it. If you believe that microwaving food is not healthy for you then, Lean Cuisine and the other low-fat low-calorie frozen diet meals are not for you. Otherwise, just thaw them naturally.

Does frozen food rich in nutrients?

Freezing food retains much of its nutrients. It is the blanching, heating, and microwaving frozen food that destroys much of its nutrients. For fruits and vegetables that contain Vitamin C, the longer you keep them frozen, the more Vitamin C is lost.

Alternative To Frozen Diet Meals

If you do not like microwaving your food, then go natural. You can cook and prepare your own food. You can buy recipe books especially made for losing weight. If you prefer touching and browsing the pages of the recipe book before you buy it, going to the bookstore may be an enjoyable activity for you. If it is only a short distance from your home or office, try walking.

If you do not have to go to the bookstore, you can try online shopping. Best, try those digital books packaged for dieting and losing weight. This package usually contains a lot of information about nutrition, workout exercises, meal diet plans or programs, and some interesting facts you might just first heard. For example, have you heard of the hormone leptin and how it helps women to lose weight?

Watch this video to find out.

If you're not interested in working out, just diet meals, try this fat loss cookbook.

Word For Today

What is entree?

Originally, in French cuisine, an entreé is a dish served before the main course. In North America, an entreé refers to the main course. Entreé is from Old French which means entrance.