The Cheap Diet

The Cheap Diet

If you don’t want to spend the big bucks for Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice or Healthy Steamers (I saw Healthy Steamers on sale last week, 3 for $8), you can usually pick up Banquet TV Dinners on sale for $1 each. Each Banquet TV Dinner has about 300 calories. Half the calories are from dead animal. Pitch the potatoes, corn, rice, pasta, dressing – and eat just the dead animal portion of the TV Dinner, which is about 150 calories. You can eat 6 of these a day (dead animal only), and lose 3-5 pounds a week. I’ve tried the meatloaf, salibury steak, spaghetti and meatballs, imitation pork ribs and pepper steak. All of them taste like school lunches or camp food, which is fine by me.