Amy’s Kitchen Stuffed Pasta Shells

April 4, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Amy's Stuffed Pasta Shells

Price: 2 for $5
Serving: 1 bowl, 10 oz
Calories: 310
Fat: 20%, 13g
Cholesterol: 11%, 30mg
Sodium: 31%, 740mg
Protein: 19g
Carbs: 10%, 30g
Fiber: 22%, 5g
WW Points: 6 Points

Amy’s Kitchen says: Tender organic pasta shells are stuffed with low fat ricotta, organic broccoli and organic spinach in a genuine Italian tomato sauce and smooth creamy white sauce.

Abi says: Wow. This meal includes 40% of Vitamins A and D and 40% of your RDA of calcium. I must admit that before I heated up the meal I was intrigued by a note on the back that read ‘Try our other bowls. . .’ and noted that there’s a ‘Country Cheddar Bowl’. I want to try one. Ok, so I don’t even know what is contains (I’m guessing potatoes, noodles, corn, or similar) but I can’t help wondering ‘What are the default ingredients of a “Country” item?’

This will be explored later when I track down a Country cheddar Bowl. For now I’ll delve into the world of stuffed pasta shells.

Pasta shells are delicious. The tomato sauce could use a little garlic, onion, and oregano, but the overall effect is suprising for a frozen meal. I feel like someone actually made these for me. Problematic: too much cheese. Yes, too much cheese. Or maybe the problem is too much pasta, because you can never have too much cheese. You see, I like a good pasta-to-cheese ratio. With these shells there’s very little pasta for the enormous amount of cheese. Not that cheese is bad, it’s just that nobody is going to eat ricotta with a spoon. Or a fork. You just don’t eat ricotta by itself.

I wrote spoon because I was one of the last people to eat my lunch today and there were no forks left. Tomorrow I will eat my lunch earlier in the day.

Also, I am intrigued by ‘Mexican Casserole’. Being half-Mexican I am not sure what that could contain. I will have to use my rain check from Giant to purchase a Mexican Casserole Bowl and a Country Cheddar Bowl. They had better be good.

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2 Responses to “Amy’s Kitchen Stuffed Pasta Shells”

danakscully64 on March 22nd, 2008

I couldn’t believe how far from the box this item looks… if I hadn’t taken it out myself, I never would have matched the two pictures. Overall though, pretty tasty
Strawberry Girl on June 30th, 2008

Hrm. I bought this because of this review but was kind of disappointed. It was good but not incredibly good. (It wasn’t that cheesy, and there wasn’t enough sauce, and the sauce wasn’t as rich as I would have liked.) And also, I bought it for about $5. If I could find it for $2.50 like you did (and if I hadn’t converted to veganism), I would probably buy it again.