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Picking your way through the freezer caseHere are some rules of thumb for choosing healthful frozen dinners.Pot pies with crust, Hungry Man dinners, and stuffed-crust or extra-cheese pizzas will rarely make the cut. A lot of choices aimed specifically at children won't, either. Conagra's Kid Cuisine Cheese Blaster Mac & Cheese, for instance, contains 9 grams of saturated fat and 950 milligrams of sodium — much more than can fit comfortably into a child's healthful diet. 1. Choose dinners, or entrees, with no more than 300 to 400 calories. That leaves room for adding in a vegetable and a high-calcium food like skim milk or nonfat yogurt — items in short supply in frozen meals. 2. Choose meals with no more than about 6 or 7 grams of saturated fat — a third of the day's maximum for someone eating 1,800 to 2,000 calories. 3. Aim for a sodium content no higher than 600 milligrams. By Lawrence Lindner
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