I figured it was high time for a change in the manner in
which I score and rate frozen TV dinners! It suddenly came to me that the way I
was going about things before were ambiguous in terms of sidestepping the truly
important issues; that being the taste,
smell, texture and overall appearance
of the meal in question. So, from now on, I’ll drop the cost and package art
scores from the scoring panel (which no one gave a rat’s ass about anyway)!
Today, I will be savoring, devouring and otherwise rending
apart, the hoped for goodness of a creation from the folks at Healthy Choice!
This time the lucky winner (and focus of my culinary lust) is an entrée by the
name of
Lemon
Herb Chicken! According to the HC site, this meal consists of ‘
tasty chicken
tenderloins are prepared in a savory herb lemon-Chardonnay sauce and are mixed
with firm whole-grain pasta, juicy cherry tomatoes, and succulent green beans!’
Wow! Now, who could resist that? They then go on to tell me that I will be
ingesting only 210 calories. (Hold up a minute! The box plainly states 200
calories. Well, perhaps it’s just a misprint…)
Upon opening the package I had a
strange discovery – whole frozen cherry tomatoes. Why golly gee, how Californ-i-a
is that? Upon reflection, this whole meal deal does reek of all things San Francisco! (For some
reason the tune, ‘Do you know the way to San
Jose? I’ve been away so long…’ popped in my head)
Well, it was a great song, so maybe this entree will be too! (Feel free and
play the song by Diane Warwick on another
tab while reading the rest of this mess)!
Nutritionally, I’ll score one for
the owner of the company as he has lead the charge to keep the sodium levels
down in this line of products! This one comes in at only 480 mg. Awesome! As I
mentioned earlier, the calories are good to go at just 200 and both the
cholesterol and carbohydrates are very low! From this standpoint, what we have
here is a ‘diet quality meal’! See that my jelly belly – I’m looking out for
ya! (My belly promptly rumbled in what I will assume was an affirmative
response). Now, on to the scoring:
Category Score Comments
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Appearance: 6 Lots of veggies complete with eyeball tomatoes!
Smell: 7 Mildly appealing! Fresh, at any
rate!
Texture: 8 I was somewhat surprised! Pasta
was al dente!
Taste: 8 Much better than I was hoping
for! It's da sauce!
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Average: 7.25 Good taste at a fair price! Go out and buy
some!
Seeing as how you can prepare
this meal (and others like it in the line) in just about four minutes in
a microwave, justifies it as a good bet for a low calorie lunch candidate at
work! I plan on keeping a few in my fridge at home also.
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