Leaner Cuisine

If you saw my shopping cart any given week, you would be quite perplexed. Some cottage cheese, some brown rice, a couple Lean Cuisine meals, diet orange soda, and Pop Secret Butter microwave popcorn. I am like a shopping schizo. Might as well eat a low calorie frozen meal before you indulge in an entire bag of greasily delicious microwave popcorn, then get up at 5:30am the next morning and run 5 miles. Seems to make the most sense. Although I do have to say, the Lean Cuisine frozen meals aren’t really all that terrible. Besides being ridiculously high in sodium and barely enough food for a small child, they are ready in less than 5 minutes, have under 500 calories total, and happen to be one of the most efficient ways to never have to wash dishes. Fantastic! I’m hooked! Well until I saw an article today on MSNBC stating that some of the chicken dinners are being recalled. Lead paint? E.coli? Thankfully no. Meals may contain “foreign materials.” Foreign? So chicken from another country? Cats? Again, no and no. The foreign materials in question are apparently “pieces of hard plastic.” Perfect! Yummy! Wait, how many calories are in plastic?...