Convenience Food Facts

If you think food labels were the final answer to making healthful food choices in the supermarket, Convenience food Facts will convince you otherwise. It makes shopping for convenience foods...convenient!

With less and less time available to cook at home, more and more people are turning to alternative sources for meals. Diabetes Convenience Food Menus is packed with helpful information such as nutrition facts on pre-prepared and packaged meals commonly available at grocery and convenience stores; how to prepare balanced, healthy meals using convenience foods; and sample menus using convenience foods.

This book shows how to combine convenience and good nutrition. It includes new listings of more than 1,500 popular brand-name products from frozen dinners to corn chips. It contains all the nutritional information needed to make wise food choices at the supermarket.

Abstract: Guidelines are provided to ensure meeting nutritional needs and desires while usng convenience food in a busy lifestyle. Tips on reducing calories, fats and sodium in the diet, shopping, reading labels are discussed. Brand name convenience foods are listed under titles: accompaniments; appetizers; beverages; breads; breakfast foods; candies; crackers, dairy products; desserts; dips; entrees; fats; jams, jellies and preserves; nuts and seeds; salad dressings, sauces and gravies; snack foods; soups; and vegetables. Each listing provides the calories, carbohydrate, protein, fat, sodium content and the exchange list equivalents for a serving size of the convenience food.

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