Knowing that posting this will expose the facts that I am A) a little OCD about reading directions, even when I know them by heart and B) eating entirely too much Lean Cuisine as of late, I forge onward.
Here’s the evidence (might I add, from two different boxes of what appears to be the *exact* same dish — all the ingredients are the same, the nutrition information is the same, the picture on the front of the box is the same, etc.):
Notice anything different about these two?
I think that either the people at Lean Cuisine are trying to make my entrees more fun by adding in a guessing game or the universe is trying to send me a sign that I shouldn’t be eating so many of the dang things!


The cooking time is different. Right?! I’m pretty good at this as every day I try and do the What’s Different photos in the AJC. I’m hoping it will keep the brain sharp, but that may be a lost cause…
Yep. One has a total time of 4 minutes and the other has a total time of 7 minutes. The 4 minute one is correct–I’d had to see what the noodles would look like with almost twice the cooking time!
I also do the “find five” every day. I’ve been having trouble lately because apparently I’m horrible at the ones labeled easy. I get incrementally better and do the best at the ones labeled very hard. Go figure.