Diet Food Reviews

Lean Cuisine Sweet and Sour Chicken

By: Tanya Patrice | Nov 23, 2004

Lean Cuisine describes their Sweet and Sour Chicken as having Tender, roasted chicken tenderloins tossed in a traditional sweet and sour sauce made from soy sauce, pineapple juice and tomato. Hand-picked red and green peppers, julienne carrots and golden pineapple tidbits finish the dish which is over a bed of long grain white rice. With a description like that, I was expecting a gourmet meal, but I think Lean Cuisine over promises and under delivers. While there are nice big chunks of chicken, it wasn't enough to make this meal more than just 'okay' tasting. I must say that I didn't really clean my plate with this one. At first, the sauce tasted a bit off - a little more sour than sweet, but as you eat more and more, it does start tasting better and better. A little too much sauce in my opinion though, but overall, this was ... 'okay'.

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The Lean Cuisine Sweet and Sour Chicken has 300 calories, 3 grams of total fat of which only 0.5 grams is saturated (both are less than 5% of the daily value), 10% of the RDA for cholesterol, 23% of the RDA for sodium, 18 grams of protein and 51 grams of total carbohydrates, which includes 20 grams of sugar and 2 grams of fiber. Each meal is 6 Weight Watchers Points, and also has 30% of the daily calue for Vitamin A and 45% vitamin C.

That's a lot of sugar from a frozen dinner! Lean Cuisine is on sale regularly and I purchased this for a $2.50. I would buy this again, but not very often.

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