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Lean Cuisine Cheese Lasagna with Chicken Scaloppini

May 19, 2006 | Reviewer: Nicole

Lean Cuisine Cheese Lasagna with Chicken Scaloppini

Price: $2.50 (on sale)
Serving: 1 tray, 10 oz.
Calories: 280
Fat: 12%, 8g
Sodium: 24%, 580mg
Protein: 19g
WW Points: 6 Winning Points
Diet Exchanges: 2 Lean Meat, 2 Starch, 1/2 other carbohydrate

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Lean Cuisine says: Chicken breast scallopini topped with a robust tomato sauce accented with basil,onion and garlic. Served with hand- layered three-cheese lasagna rich with ricotta, romano and parmesan cheeses.

Nicole says: They say everything tastes like chicken. Those involved in the wild world of frozen foods know differently – something tasting like chicken is a big boost, especially if it’s called chicken. I was pleased with the slightly detectable chicken-y taste of the two tiny patties included with this meal. They were served in a tomato sauce, however, and of course this is a Lean Cuisine tomato sauce, so though it’s readily identifiable as such, it is awfully bland. “Basil, onion, and garlic?” Ha.

Moving on to the lasagna, the tomato sauce might be the highlight (awfully bland,) as this “three-cheese” lasagna has a little bit of something that LOOKS like cheese in between two bland pasta sheets (soft in the center, hard around the edges), but it doesn’t taste like much of anything. Lasagna is Italian for “lots of cheese”, so there is some huge misrepresentation going on here. I am fed up with Lean Cuisine, and if I didn’t still have two more in the freezer from the last sale at Safeway, I’d proclaim that I am never again eating a Lean Cuisine Meal.

Filed Under 6 WW Points, Chicken, Lean Cuisine Reviews, Pasta, Two Stars 
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2 Responses to “Lean Cuisine Cheese Lasagna with Chicken Scaloppini”

  1. Valerie on May 6th, 2007

    I tried this entree since it looked appetizing and filling on the box (two meals in one!), but I totally agree with the review, and I wish I had read it before I went to the store. This was so horrid I could only finish a few bites, and I was starving at work when I ate it. This is why people spend half their precious lunch hour driving to get fresh food. Having said that, I’ve had decent Lean Cuisine entrees, particularly pizza, which is hard to screw up, but frozen diet food is always a gamble, which is why I appreciate this site.

  2. Lauren on May 16th, 2007

    I actually did like this one, but I swear the first time I tried it there were 3 chicken patties, and the second time there were 2. I guess I just got spoiled the first time. I thought the lasagna part had a good taste.

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