Critique: Healthy Choice Golden Roasted Turkey Breasts!

On sale at only $1.98 at a local Country Mart in Forsyth MO, I elected to submit my pallet to yet another offering from the folks at Healthy Choice!

On the box, I was informed that the Golden Roasted Turkey Breast meal offered by Healthy Choice was; 'Turkey breast with rich gravy and traditional stuffing, green beans, and cherry blueberry desert.' Well, the desert certainly garnered my attention, at any rate! As the meal has only 260 calories, I'm always looking to sate my sweet tooth in economic fashion...

While writing about nutritional concerns, the cholesterol and sodium were very low, which impressed me no end. [Note that the panel shown here is close but not exactly what appeared on my package].

Like most of HC's offerings, the preparation was very simple. You merely cut and remove the film from over the desert then nuke it on high for 5 to 5 ½ minutes. Let it stand for a couple and then consume the contents. (There are also directions for preparing in a conventional oven, I didn't include).

Time to Eat! OK, it's go time! After nuking, I added a little butter, some salt and pepper and dug in. My overall impression was good. (Good as in what would apply to a $2 meal deal). The stuffing absolutely made the turkey portion great tasting and was devoured with gratitude. The green beans were a bit tough in my view, but edible all the same. And that desert? Well, I saved it for last and it was simply awesome. It certainly made the score of the meal ratchet up to a solid 8. If you can get this one on sale, I'd say go for it!

Do you feel this disease? It's working its way through our government!

'Do you feel this disease
kill my heart like a summer breeze
maybe it's just my luck, hope I never wake up!'

PM Today

The disease mentioned in this song is about love and loving and then ultimately losing that love. We are, after all, a very complex life form. But, that's what life and living is all about!

And so the summer of 2015 comes to an end!

I think if I had to use one word to describe the summer of 2015, it would be wet! The rains came in the spring and then decided to overstay their welcome. When July rolled around and we should have witnessed the lawns all drying up, we got drenched with over a foot of rainfall! Rather that dry up and turn brown, many lawns became a challenge to cut as the warm and wet weather served to keep them growing, abet in damp fashion.

As August came and went, the rainfall did let up a bit, dropping only about half a foot over the course of the month! The Tri-lakes river system involving Beaver, Table Rock and Bull Shoals remained in a flooded condition, for much of the time, and levels were slow to fall. In fact, Bull Shoals never expected to drop to a 'normal' level for the balance of the year.

Now, on the cusp of the start of September, many of us living in the Midwest are wondering what will be in store come the winter months. Will that period see record snow or ice or will it be a more normal winter cycle? Only time will tell.

The Karma Hotspot!

After waiting for months, I finally received my Karma Hotspot. The little square fits nicely is a shirt pocket and provides a WiFi link for up to five friends. The battery lasts for about five hours, also. It's charged using any regular micro USB and provides data at a cost of only $14 per gig. There are no time limits and no contracts as this little baby accesses any communications tower it can find. Cute!

The Holly's and Just One Look!

Star Trek: Every seven years or so, Vulcan males and females become aroused. They undergo a blood fever, become violent, and finally die unless they mate with someone with whom they are emphatically bonded or engage in the ritual battle known as kal-if-fee. This was known, in the series, as pon farr - In my world, this was also known as a 'coming of manhood or age'! A time when hormonal secretions, acting in a young male body, were at their height! (A good time, I think most of us men would agree)!

Peter and Gordon! I go to pieces!

A number by a British group that is so far back in time that even I, an aging gnome, can't remember the date. Still, you all can enjoy! Note: At this time in history, men's hair spray had not yet been invented. I'll assume these two used a female product and way too much of it to boot!

Kymmenen kirosanaa!