Non-starters - Food Porn - some Louis Rich Dinner Starters hight in saturated fat - Brief Article

It's hard to ruin a skinless chicken breast. Broil it, bake it, saute it, grill it--you can't miss. Unless you're Louis Rich, that is. Two of his new Dinner Starters do chicken wrong.

Louis's packages of chicken chunks and sauce are supposed to start your dinner. To finish it, you warm them in the microwave and serve them on top of cooked pasta. What you may finish is your odds of staying off cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Even a measly half-cup of the Chicken Alfredo delivers 1,130 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams--half a day's worth--of saturated fat. That doesn't include the artery-clogging trans fat in the margarine that's used to make the Di Giorno Creamy Alfredo Sauce. Of course, there's enough sat fat in its milk, cheese, cream, and cream cheese to make Arteries Alfredo.

Eating half a cup of the Four Cheese & Chicken is equally hazardous. Instead of Alfredo, it's the Di Giorno Four Cheese Sauce that will relocate to your blood vessels.

Louis Rich knows how to cook chicken without heavy sauces. His Chicken Teriyaki and Sweet & Sour Chicken Dinner Starters have only around 200 calories and half a gram of sat fat. But with 1,390 milligrams of sodium in the Teriyaki and 20 grams of sugar in the Sweet & Sour, your best bet is to start your dinner yourself.

Louis Rich: (800) 722-1421.

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