Stouffer's Grilled Entrees are tasty

Stouffer's Grilled Entrees. Chicken Portabello, Chicken Teriyaki, Herb Chicken, and Lemon Pepper Chicken. $2.79 per 9-ounce to 9 3/8-ounce frozen entree.

Bonnie: For the first time in a long time, I didn't mind testing frozen entrees. What I'm really saying is that all but one of Stouffer's new Grilled Chicken entrees are pretty tasty. They're also nutritious, with each containing at least one vegetable serving. The Grilled Lemon Pepper contains two vegetable servings and has a respectable 5 grams of fiber per serving.

The Grilled Chicken Portabello is the only disappointment. The mushrooms absorbed too much liquid, making them very soggy instead of nice and meaty as portabello mushrooms should be.

Carolyn: Grilling's the focus of this new line of the regular red-box entrees from Stouffer's. If you believe the company, the chicken that these contain actually got its grill marks from a flame. They do taste that way, but I would buy them instead for their delicious seasonings and sauces. Portabello's the best by far. (You're wrong again, Bonnie!) The only one I can't recommend is the teriyaki, because of its wimpy rice-veggie side dish (even though its multidimensional sweet-deep sauce is great).

One warning for regular buyers of red-box Stouffer's: In size and satiability, these resemble Lean Cuisine. So no matter how good these grilled entrees taste, their nouvelle leanings are apt to leave lovers of old-fashioned red-box mac and cheese, Welsh rarebit and creamed chip beef both disappointed and hungry.

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M-Azing Candy Bar. Milk Chocolate With M&M's Minis Crunchy Chocolate Candies, and Milk Chocolate With M&M's Minis Peanut Butter Chocolate Candies. 55 cents per 1.5-ounce bar or $2.89 per 11.1-ounce bag of fun-size bars.

Bonnie: Truth be told, Carolyn doesn't like it when I say I like chocolate candy. I keep trying to tell her that we dietitians are really human, that we do eat and enjoy chocolate. Sorry, Carolyn, but I'm telling you that I like M&M's.

That's why I thought I'd like these new M-Azing chocolate bars that contain either mini M&M's or mini M&M's Peanut Butter candies. But I didn't. They're not worth the calories: The milk chocolate isn't creamy enough, and the mini M&M's buried in that chocolate just don't have the flavor punch of regular M&M's.

I'd rather enjoy a bag of M&M's, especially since plain M&M's and these new M-Azing candy bars contain about the same amount of calories and fat.