{"id":2656,"date":"2009-03-10T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2021-08-20T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T07:21:22","slug":"news-healthy-choice-sticks-it-hard-to-lean-cuisine-with-a-new-look-and-all-natural-entrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/10\/news-healthy-choice-sticks-it-hard-to-lean-cuisine-with-a-new-look-and-all-natural-entrees\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS: Healthy Choice Sticks It Hard to Lean Cuisine with a New Look and All-Natural Entrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m Switzerland when it comes to the war between Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine for freezer aisle supremacy. I’m not picking a side and I’m just watching the whole thing go down with a Totino’s Party Pizza on my lap. They just go back and forth, flinging combinations of ingredients at each other and conquering more and more shelf space, like they’re a bunch of 12-year-olds playing Risk. <\/p>\n

Healthy Choice recently launched their All-Natural Entrees line to counteract the new meals from Lean Cuisine. The All-Natural Entrees come in six varieties for your procurement: <\/p>\n

Mediterranean Pasta<\/b> – Nine-grain orzo with beans, saut\u00c3\u00a9ed onions, diced tomatoes, and savory spinach packed with 12 grams of fiber. Topped with a cinnamon sauce, sweet apples, fontina cheese, and cranberries.<\/p>\n

Portabella Marsala Pasta<\/b> – Nine-grain mafalda pasta topped with crimini mushrooms tossed with marsala wine sauce and topped with fontina cheese.<\/p>\n

Portabella Spinach Parmesean<\/b> – Whole-grain penne pasta with baby portabella mushrooms and spinach.<\/p>\n

Pumpkin Squash Ravioli<\/b> – Ravioli stuffed with pumpkin paired with asparagus, butternut squash, and Granny Smith apples. It’s all topped with a butter-sage sauce.<\/p>\n

Sweet Asian Potstickers<\/b> (shown above) – Veggie potstickers served on a whole-grain rice and covered with a sweet Asian-style sauce.<\/p>\n

Tomato Basil Penne<\/b> – Nine-grain penne pasta topped with tomatoes, onions, sweet basil, and mozzarella cheese. Prepared with 100% extra virgin olive oil.<\/p>\n

Besides being made from all-natural ingredients, all are high in fiber, low in saturated fat and cholesterol, contain no preservatives or artificial flavors, provide antioxidants and they seem like a gigantic “suck it” to Lean Cuisine.<\/p>\n

Not trying to apply pressure in any way, but some of these will probably be reviewed by Heat Eat Review<\/a><\/b> in the future.<\/p>\n

(via I Ate A Pie<\/a><\/b>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m Switzerland when it comes to the war between Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine for freezer aisle supremacy. I’m not picking a side and I’m just watching the whole thing go down with a Totino’s Party Pizza on my lap. 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