I'm trying to find easy and quick dinner meals.. and I have heard that frozen lean dinners at Krogers and such are good ideas, but aren't they preserved with sodium which makes them not as good of a choice? Anyone know any quick easy healthy dinner meals if not? Thanks!

If I were you I would cook and freeze my own "TV dinners". I do this and have great eating lunches all week long. If you make it yourself you control what sort of chemicals and preservatives go into your mouth. For instance, I make chicken breasts in the oven 5 or 6 at a time. Then I put the cooked chicken in individual plastic freezer containers with lids on. I put my veggies in other freezer containers. Then when I head out to work in the morning I can choose chicken and peas, etc. and heat it up in the microwave at work. This way I control the portions of my lunch as well and don't over eat.

Wow, how come I didn't ever think of that? Hehe great thanks for that! I will def. start doing that, makes it much easier, and healthier!

Lately I've had chicken breasts marinated in mesquite sauce with rice every day for lunch. Yummm. I cook the whole bag of chicken breasts at once in the oven and the rice on the stove and put the rice and the chicken in one container and heat up. Then I dump onto a nice dinner plate and eat at my desk.

You can also make soups which are easy to cook. Baked chicken and fish is also very easy to make. Also, stir frys are quick and easy to make too.

An addition to the soup idea go buy some ice cube trays and freeze your favorite home made soup in them then on busy nights just microwave however many ice cubes of soup you would like. If you really like the idea fill gallon freezer bags with soup and lay flat so you can stack large quantities of soup in your freezer.

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Originally Posted by anxious_RN

I'm trying to find easy and quick dinner meals..and I have heard that frozen lean dinners at Krogers and such are good ideas, but aren't they preserved with sodium which makes them not as good of a choice? Anyone know any quick easy healthy dinner meals if not? Thanks!

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There are a lot of good frozen dinners these days. My favorite is Marie Callender's. They are wonderful, and average under $2.50 at WalMart stores that have a frozen food section. At other stores they average between $3.50 and $4.50 each, though they are sometimes on sale for $2 - $2.50 each.

If money is REALLY tight, Banquet makes edible frozen dinners, that average $1 each. They are not great, but they are edible.

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Originally Posted by twinkiedooter

If I were you I would cook and freeze my own "TV dinners". I do this and have great eating lunches all week long. If you make it yourself you control what sort of chemicals and preservatives go into your mouth. For instance, I make chicken breasts in the oven 5 or 6 at a time. Then I put the cooked chicken in individual plastic freezer containers with lids on. I put my veggies in other freezer containers. Then when I head out to work in the morning I can choose chicken and peas, etc. and heat it up in the microwave at work. This way I control the portions of my lunch as well and don't over eat.

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The amount of sodium (salt) in frozen dinners is over the top so this is a good idea indeed!

(Out of greenies.)

I agree make your own.
Too many preservatives
Besides what others have said I also will make a large pot of spaghetti sauce and freeze it in two or three containers.
Then when I want some spaghetti or other pasta all I have to do is thaw it out and make the noodles.