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Expensive "Hamburger Helper" with Chicken!
Tasted okay, nothing more. You'll need to look carefully for the few miniscule pieces of diced chicken. And now I'm stuck with three boxes. Spend a little more (or not) and get something frozen, like Stouffers.
[Friday, January 19, 2007]
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Not bad for a boxed dinner
This isn't gourmet, to be sure, but it's not bad.
In the box is a package of noodles; a packet of dry cheese-sauce mix (looks just like what you get with package of dry-mix macaroni and cheese); a can of white, creamy sauce with chicken; and a packet of seasoned crumb topping.
To cook this dish, you dump everything but the topping into a cooking vessel (casserole dish for the oven, pot for the stove, or bowl for the microwave), then add hot water and heat. (When cooking in the oven, the dish must be covered with foil. When cooking in the microwave, it says to cook uncovered, but I'd recommend covering with paper towels; it gets splattery, otherwise.) It takes about 20 minutes in the microwave, 35 in the oven.
If you've ever had Progresso chicken soup, you won't be impressed to see that the chicken in this product is by Progresso. But don't let that put you off. The chicken in this is actually much different. It is moist and not stringy. Actually, it looks like diced pieces of a chopped and formed chicken "loaf," like a lunch-meat type of thing. The sauce flavor is decent (the topping really helps).
The box says it makes five servings (at 260 calories each), but three or four would be more realistic for a typical adult's appetite (if it's not being served with accompanying side dishes of vegetables, salad, etc.).
This isn't something you'll want to have every night (your kids might want to, though; it's just the kind of thing they love), but it's a great product to have every now and then, and it's especially good to have on hand for the nights when you realize you don't have any fresh food to cook.
[Friday, September 08, 2006]
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