I was wondering why the stats for my menus varied so much from day to day, so I decided to get the stats for the NutriSystem foods and rank them by effective carbohydrates. The stats came from the item listings in the shopping section of the NutriSystem site. NutriSystem foods are NOT created equal! From the looks of it, what you choose for the day could make the difference of a half pound or more a week. Knowing what to choose might be what you need to get past a plateau. Well, let me put it this way: the difference between the highest and lowest item (minus the ones requiring roll or crackers) on each list is about 100. This means that the difference between choosing lowest calorie items and highest calorie items is 400 calories in a day. Multiply that by 7 days and you’ve got a difference of 2,800 calories. That’s 0.8 (4/5) of a pound.
If you have Microsoft Excel, you can check out the spreadsheet version and sort the information how you want. Otherwise, you can look at the PDF version and see the stats sorted by effective carbohydrates.
[Edit: Linked files contain updated information.]