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Healthy Choice Creamy Garlic Shrimp Review

The Healthy Choice Creamy Garlic Shrimp meal consists of shrimp tossed with bow-tie pasta in a creamy garlic basil sauce, complemented with a side of green beans and carrots and a cherry crisp dessert. I enjoyed this meal and my only complaint is that I wish there was a little more of it. That said, they didn't give us any wimpy, scrawny baby shrimp. Instead, Healthy Choice had the good sense to provide us with plump, juicy, tender shrimp - the more-than-one-bite-to-eat-it type. The sauce was flavorful and the garlic wasn't overpowering as can happen in some of these meals. There was quite a lot of sauce - maybe too much - which made the meal look like there was more to it than there really was. The vegetables remained fresh-tasting even after microwaving it for 5 minutes. I always have a problem with Healthy Choice including fruit in oatmeal and syrup dessert, otherwise known as "cherry crisp" in this meal, BUT since I was still hungry after eating the shrimp and veggies, I did eat the dessert, even though I would have preferred more vegetables or shrimp. I preferred this cherry crisp over the peach and pineapple ones that they have in other meals.

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The Healthy Choice Creamy Garlic Shrimp meal is only 280 calories and 5 Weight Watchers Points. There is also 5 grams of total fat and 1.5 grams of saturated fat which are both only 8% of the recommended daily amount (RDA), 25% of the RDA for sodium (600 mg), 13 grams of protein and 44 grams of total carbohydrates which includes 16 grams of sugars and 5 grams of fiber (20% of the RDA).

Most frozen dinners have 25% of sodium, so I am no longer surprised at the amount, althouh I wish they would lower it. I thought the nutrition of this meal was pretty good and maybe I would add a small salad or some rice to make a really full dinner at under 500 calories. I would definitely buy this again, especially since there was a $1.00 off 4 meals coupons in the grocery stores this week - but Healthy Choice goes on sale often.

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