My husband loves these meals in a box, they are pretty simple to make too, not the most healthy meal you will ever have, but I tweek this to make it a bit more healthy.
As it stands Banquet Homestyle Bakes Beef Chili with beans & cornbread has 360 calories per serving with 10 grams of fat- which makes up 25% fat from calories. Each box states it contains 4.5 servings. It takes between 32-36 minutes if its made exactly per the directions. Open the two cans of chili, put in a pan, add 3/4s cup of water to the cornbread mix, stir and spoon on top of the chili and bake. But I cant leave well enough alone, when I open the two cans of chili I also open one can of corn and one can of black beans, I drain off the corn and the black beans and mix them into the chili, then I add a bit more than 3/4s of a cup of water to the cornbread mix to make it spread just a little further. And I bake this for 40 minutes.
With my additions the entire batch has 2260 calories and 50.25 grams of fat which means it has dropped to 20% calories from fat! This now feeds a lot more than 4 people now, I can generally get two meals out of this for my entire family.
Almost before I could walk normally after my brutal half marathon I had heard of a 5 and 10k run in my city. I came home and googled it. April 13th, up El Travatore Hill. I became giddy at the thought of powering up that massive hill! I havent registered for it yet but I plan to ASAP. On the advice of some seasoned runners Im only doing the 5k, which is what I was leaning towards to anyway. I have a 5 weeks to prepare, I found an 8 week program that I will have to tweek. Im excited to start it! in 6 weeks I have a wedding to go to, and really want to fit into this killer dress, hopefully my 5k training and low fat eating will give me the nudge I need to start losing weight again!
Once I settled back home after my brutal half marathon I logged onto my running clubs site and wrote my miserable race report complete with picture. Did I get scolded!! Turns out my symptoms were that of heat exhaustion and my pictures were fairly clear that I also had preoribital edema (swelling of the face) caused by an electrolyte imbalance. I was also told I was probably on the verge of being hyponatremic, which I had to wikipedia 
it is basically having an imbalance of water and sodium, which can be lethal if severe enough. It is also popularly known as water intoxication.
I went on to read that about 13% of all the marathoners in the prestigious Boston Marathon are found to have hyponatremia with a little over half a percent with it being life threatening.
I honestly thought I had taken sufficient sodium in during my run from my three gels and the gatorade I drank (but then threw up) but reflecting on the whole situation I was very confused and totally not thinking straight, which is a sign of heat exhaustion. Looking back I know I did what I could in the situation, but I am most definatly learning from this experience! I definatly will not be running another half marathon in the heat in the near future. I am also going to have to find another ’sports drink’ that agrees with my stomach. I have a 5k coming up 