We bought a whole bunch of the Healthy Choice entrees recently when they were on sale at the local grocery store $1.25 each. Thats a great price. So we loaded up our freezer with them. I wish we had gotten more actually. In general, the Healthy Choice microwave foods, are low fat, healthy, and taste better than their competitors. But since we have a whole bunch of them, I am getting to try a bunch of them, including many that I hadn’t previously tried.
For lunch today, I had the Cheesy Chicken & Rice-(white meat chicken with rice in a cheese sauce). The vegetable was carrot & broccoli medley. This entree has 6 grams of fat, 220 calories. Though I don’t generally pay much attention to it, it has 600mg of sodium. Weight Wathcers counts this as 4 points.
It needed to be cooked for about 3 minutes in the microwave, with one interuption where it needs to be stirred. Then it need to sit for a couple minutes, and stirred.
Okay, this is not the best Healthy Choice entree that I have had. The chicken and rice in cheese sauce was very watery. The cheese tasted okay. There are maybe about half a dozen small chunks of chicken. It’s not very filling. The vegetables are pretty standard fare for Healthy Choice. They are okay.
With 60 calories coming from fat, compared to the 220 total calories, over 27% of the calories are coming from fat. I would prefer something that had 20% or less of the calories coming from fat. If the entree tasted better, I might make an occasional exception. But I thing I will pass on the Healthy Choice Cheesy Chicken & Rice in the future.

Posted by Rob in Reviews on February 21st, 2007 |