Stouffer’s Grilled Lime Chicken

November 17, 2006 | Reviewer: Nicole

Stouffer's Grilled Lime Chicken

Price: $2.29
Serving: 1 package, 14 oz.
Calories: 430
Fat: 18%, 12g
Sodium: 43%, 1020mg
Protein: 24g
Fiber: 36%, 9g

Stouffer’s Says: Lime marinated and grilled chicken breast strips in a corn and tomato salsa with spanish rice and chile baked beans.

Nicole says: The cooking time on this meal is 10-12 minutes in the microwave. Wow, that’s a long time to wait for a frozen meal. I have grown accustomed to long wait times for frozen entrees at home, only because I do not own a microwave and have to cook in a conventional oven. But seriously, this is supposed to be fast food.

When the meal came out, the bean sauce was crusted and dry on the edges - stirring made this easy to overlook, and the drier, crustier parts blended in without degrading the flavor of the sauce. It was a very light chile (as in, a bowl of chile versus a chile pepper) type flavor. The real disappointment with the beans was texture. They tasted like they were either undercooked - hard beans aren’t that yummy. The rice was not too dry, and had a nice “spanish rice” spice to it. The chicken was not “strips” but pieces or chunks, of which there were about three the size of a standard bouncy ball and a couple smaller peices - not a large serving. The chicken seemed over cooked - it was a bit hard and definitely dry. The lime-grilled flavor was nice, and the corn-tomato salsa added some veggie goodness and some moisture to each bite.

I’ve been very pleased with the size of Stouffer’s “dinner”-sized meals in the past. This one just barely hit the minimum of acceptable for me, mostly based upon the very small chicken portion. I’m not “full”, but I am not hungry, and do not expect to be for a few hours. I think the portion would please the average adult for lunch or dinner.

Though there were major errors with this meal - namely, small meat portion, overcooked and dry meat, hard beans - I really did enjoy the flavors. This is the reason that I gave this meal three stars.

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3 Responses to “Stouffer’s Grilled Lime Chicken”

J on April 2nd, 2007

I realize this post is from a long time ago…but Nicole, it’s “p-i-e-c-e-s” not “p-e-i-c-e-s.” You do this almost every time you write a review, and it drives me nutso. Abi, do you not read this stuff before it goes up?
Abi Jones on April 2nd, 2007

Oh man, do you realize how many times in each review I have to find and fix that? She doesn’t do is almost every time, she does it multiple times in every review. The problem is that I use a text editor for all of this. No fancy Microsoft Word spelling checker over here.
Heather on October 7th, 2007

Ah, I just had this last night. The flavors are indeed decent, but the chicken is unedible, lime flavored carboard.