You don’t get a lot of chicken, but the portion size is similar to the rest.  It’s not immediately spicy but does have a bit of a kick after the fact.

If you like General TSO Chicken then you’ll probably like this.   It cooks fast too, 4 minutes as opposed to 5-6 for most other meals.

Would definitely eat again.

Cafe Steamers (General TSO Spicy Chicken

This is your standard 2-item heat and eat meal.   Preparation is simple, pull that sucker out of the box and zap it.   No cutting, poking, slicing or venting required.

The depth of the tray would lead you to believe you’re getting more to eat than you are.   You’d also think given the depth, they’d be able to keep the veggies where they belong. 

Taste is OK, but not great, portion size is deceiving.  I’m not sure what this costs but I’d pick the Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine over these meals.

South Beach Living Meat Loaf and Green Beans

These Healthy Choice meals tend to be pretty good.  This one isn’t any different.  Cook-ability and the burning of the desert remains an issue with these meals.  Other than that, they are good to go.

Healthy Choice – Beef Pot Roast

Serving size is 15.x ounces, of which 14.x ounces is broth/water, so it’s not all that filling.    This isn’t a Chunky soup, so maybe my view is a little skewed.  If this is all you have you’ll still be hungry.

Would I eat this again?  If I had too, it’s not my favorite.  But I’d certainly eat it before I’d skip it.  I would willingly try other flavors in the future though.   This small thing of soup contains 930mg of Sodium, which seems like a lot to me.

Progresso Minestrone Soup

They never cook right.  With Healthy Choice meals the desert is always cooked to death to get the main portion cooked right.  Cooking inconsistencies aside, this isn’t too bad.  Would I eat it again?  Sure.

Healthy Choice – Meatloaf

Eating breakfast, which makes you hungry for lunch and then not skipping lunch, and then snacking when you’re hungry on good stuff.    Basically getting your metabolism going and no longer starving yourself so your body stores everything it eats.

So far this is working for me.   Its had its up and it’s downs though, Primarily in the ‘Lunch Category’.

When possible, Claudine packs me a lunch of good home-made stuff, a turkey sandwich or a pork roast sandwich.  But when she’s busy, or we haven’t eaten anything the night before that I care to eat again, I get one of those ‘package lunches’.

So far we’ve tried numerous things and I will eventually get around to rating them all so you don’t have to suffer as I have.

First up is the Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers…

Far and away these are the most consistent cooking of all the microwave lunch in-a-box type meals.  There is a reasonable portion, and most of them taste pretty good to boot.  

I’ve had the Beef Merlot, Cajun Style Chicken & Shrimp, and the Grilled Whiskey Steak.

They so far have been the only meal that you put in the microwave for the indicated time and they actually cook properly.

So here’s how I’m going to rate this stuff on a scale from 1-10.

Cafe Steamers (only applicable to the 3 that I’ve tried thus far).