I eat very little pork. It does not have the greatest reputation as a healthy food.

However, in this meal you are getting a pretty healthy mix of foods.

Total calories on the entire dish is 240 calories. That is about the same number you will find in a 20 ounce soft drink bottle.

What you will not find in the soft drink bottle is almost forty percent of your protein requirement for the day, some vitamin A, calcium, and some iron. You might find some vitamin C in your soda if it is an orange one.

This also has 16% of your daily requirement of dietary fiber. That is another thing you are not going to find in your soda – or virtually any other drink, for that matter.

It has 15 grams of fat total (10% of daily requirement) – zero grams of which are trans fat.

It is pretty tasty.

It is still pork, though. So heed the warnings on the box – keep it frozen until ready to eat, and then cook it thoroughly according to the recommendations. Undercooked pork is dangerous.

In these days of electric freezers and microwave ovens, you can have a hot pork dinner in minutes. The number of calories and the amount of fat in this dish is not as high as you would expect, and is a great alternative to junk foods.