Lean Cuisine frozen diet meals include breakfast paninis, pizzas and sandwiches and entrees such as the Market Creations and Comfort, Spa and Dinnertime Cuisine products. Café Cuisine choices include Fiesta Grilled Chicken with rice and beans, and Beef Portabello with red skin potatoes. The Café Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo has shrimp, broccoli and peas in linguine pasta with alfredo sauce. If you are looking for a frozen dinner that is low in calories, you might want to look at the nutrition information and see whether this is a good option for you.
Calories And Macronutrients
The serving size for Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo is one package, or 9oz. It has 250 calories with 45 calories from fat, or 18 percent of its calories from fat. The recommendation in the 2005 Dietary Guidelines is to keep fat between 20 and 35 percent of total calories. The meal has 5g total fat, 2g saturated fat and no trans fats. It has 18g protein and 32g carbohydrate, including 4g sugars and 3g dietary fiber.
Sodium And Potassium
High blood pressure can increase the risk of kidney or coronary heart disease or stroke. According to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services, you may be able to maintain a healthy blood pressure or lower high blood pressure by eating less sodium from processed foods and more potassium from fruits and vegetables. The Shrimp Alfredo from Lean Cuisine has 590mg sodium, or 25 percent of the daily value, and 390mg potassium, which is 11 percent of the daily value.
Cholesterol
Cholesterol from your food may lead to higher levels of LDL cholesterol in your blood. The American Heart Association recommends that healthy adults have no more than 300mg cholesterol per day, and if you already have high cholesterol or heart disease, you should stay below 200mg per day. Cholesterol is in animal foods such as fatty meats, full fat dairy products including butter and cheese and seafood including shrimp. Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo has 60mg cholesterol.
Vitamins And Minerals
Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo has 10 percent of the daily value for iron, a mineral that can prevent iron deficiency anemia and that may be deficient in some women of child-bearing age. Vitamin C is an antioxidant vitamin that can help your body absorb iron, and this entrée has 30 percent of the daily value. According to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, both adults and children may be at risk for calcium inadequacy, and the Shrimp Alfredo provides 20 percent of the daily value for calcium. It also has 8 percent of the daily value for vitamin A.
Considerations
Lean Cuisine Shrimp Alfredo is low in fat and has fewer calories than many frozen dinners. It has five Weight Watchers Points, which is an important piece of information if you are on the Weight Watchers program. The meal is worth 1.5 lean meat servings, two starch servings and a half a skim milk food serving. You can eat the meal with some vegetables or a salad to increase your vegetable servings without adding many calories.
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