On the healthiness of pre-packaged foods

99.99999% of prepackaged stuff is bad for you, even the Weight Watchers and Healthy Choice stuff. It stands to reason, they have to find some way to preserve and package the food so it stays fresher longer and usually sodium and preservatives are the trick to that. Even if it doesn't have a high level of fat (trans and otherwise) and calories, doesn't mean it's not bad for you. Also a lot of the stuff is made with bad products, low quality meats, vegetables you probably wouldn't pick out of the bin for your own consumption, white refined flour and sugar, it's all about streamlining and speeding up production on the product. Oh yeah and making it taste good, which it does. I don't think anyone eats pre-packaged dinners for the health benefits, just like you don't go to McDonalds for a Big Mac because you need to lower you cholesterol.

Not that I'm knocking them, I practically live off Budget Gourmet dinners, 10 for $10 at Albertsons. Yesterday I bought a family sized Stouffers Meat Lasagana. It's death baked into a cheesey topping with a basil tomato sauce.

How ya doing, buddy?