{"id":6033,"date":"2011-09-06T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2011-09-06T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T20:45:28","slug":"lean-cuisine-philly-style-steak-panini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6033","title":{"rendered":"Lean Cuisine &#8211; Philly Style Steak Panini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lean1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6034 alignleft\" title=\"lean1\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lean1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Always in search of food under a buck, I came across a large selection of Lean Cuisine sandwiches and entrees that hit that price point recently.  Today I sampled the Philly Style Steak &amp; Cheese Panini, which boasts the following ingredients on the box:<\/p>\n<p>Beef steak, red &amp; green peppers, onions, and cheddar cheese sauce on sourdough bread.  The photo on the box looks fairly appetizing.<\/p>\n<p>The instructions call for 2 min 45 sec in the microwave, and allow to rest for one minute longer.  You perform this operation on Lean Cuisine&#8217;s &#8220;Revolutionary Grilling&#8221; &#8482; tray.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the sandwich looks like prior to nuking.  The 6 oz sandwich weights in <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lEAN2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6035\" title=\"lEAN2\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lEAN2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>at 320 calories, a quarter of your daily sodium requirement, 39 carbs, and 9 grams of fat.<\/p>\n<p>Not particularly &#8220;lean&#8221; cuisine on my own personal diet.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all that unappetizing.  I added dill chips and garden tomatoes to the sandwich, which came out of the microwave rather limp, but &#8220;crisped up&#8221; as time went by.  It nearly got to the stage where I would call it &#8216;toasted.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The flavor is ok, kind of skimpy on ingredients, but for the price?  A deal.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Burgerdogboy kind of went crazy in this section of the frozen foods yesterday, so there will be more Lean Cuisine reports in the future.<a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LEAN3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6036\" title=\"LEAN3\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LEAN3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always in search of food under a buck, I came across a large selection of Lean Cuisine sandwiches and entrees that hit that price point recently. Today I sampled the Philly Style Steak &amp; Cheese Panini, which boasts the following ingredients on the box: Beef steak, red &amp; green peppers, onions, and cheddar cheese sauce&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6033\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lean Cuisine &#8211; Philly Style Steak Panini<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[397,729,2090,2091,2235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}