Consumer Watch: Cheap meals can be healthier - most expensive dishes restaurant

Some of the cheapest --
Food on the market may also be the best for your waist.
Content and price analysis of some heatand-
Eating the Herald meal on Sunday, health food guide nutritionist Claire Turnbull says the best nutrition is not always a "healthy" or the most expensive brand.
Turnbull advises people to look for ready-made
Each food has less than 20 grams of fat, less than 800 mg of sodium, and no more than 2500kJ of energy.
Ideally a meal should be half a vegetable, she said.
Only a few foods on the label can clearly show the content of vegetables.
In our analysis, some of the foods that best met these criteria were Wattie's snack frozen food, which the Herald bought on Sunday for $3 from the countdown in particular
The choice of Wattie, studied by the Herald on Sunday, includes beef lasagna, fish cake and pepper con carne with an energy of 1 kilojoules to 1 kilojoules and an energy of 11 kilojoules
8g and 15g of fat.
They are in the range of sodium, about 500 mg per serving.
Other options, such as the beef lasagna of Wishbone, Turnbull said that many people think this is a fresher and healthier option, and the kilojoules of a service arethird bigger.
Dakshin mutton curry for $ month.
In the supermarket, the largest punch, 40 grams of fat and nearly kilojoules are packed in a size of 300 grams.
Many of the biggest problems
Meals made for your wallet and waist are not as big as standard meals.
Most of the meals surveyed were between 270g and 320g, although the wish Bone selection was 450g.
Turnbull sayis was not satisfied with many as the main course.
"People are still hungry compared to what they usually eat.
If you have a cookie smaller than normal, you may want to have a bag of cookies after that.
"She recommends supplementing them with cheap food such as leafy salad or frozen vegetables. Deli-
A style meal like Wishbone is a fresher and better option, Turnbull says, but people need to be aware of the calories and fat levels they are eating in restaurants.
She said people should be clear that this convenience is expensive when they buy heatingand-eat meals.
In most cases, you can make the same food cheaper by buying ingredients and cooking from scratch.
"If you often need to buy ready-made --
Eat, need to ask 【yourself]
Can you double it? batch cooking?
It doesn't take a long time to make chili.
"People should also be careful with foods that are labeled" healthy "or have names such as Weight Watchers," she said.
"In many cases, they tend not to be when you see special dietary products, which doesn't necessarily make them a healthy choice.
You need to look at them independently.
"You can't say one would be a better choice because it's recommended by Weight Watchers.
"In our analysis, Weight Watchers came in behind Wattie's food and a few slices of McCain's frozen vegan pizza.
The best option in terms of fat and energy is frozen soup.
Turnbull says they are good because the vegetables are high.
But their sodium, second only to the fork, eats and Dak Shin mutton curry.
If they had a decent lunch, Turnbull said, some people would find soup enough for dinner.
"But you might need something like whole wheat toast and cheese to make it more nutritious.